Post-Doc Engineer – Technical Sales
Newton Colmore is working with a technology company in Cambridge, assisting them in their search for the next generation of technical sales and business development talent.
This role is perfect for someone who has either just finished a PhD, or has some post-doc experience, working on research-heavy projects whilst simultaneously bidding for grants, funding, and creating proposals.
Within this role you will act as a trusted technical voice in early-stage business development conversations, working closely with a world-class team of scientists and engineers back at base. With a focus on medical devices and healthcare technology, your responsibilities will include:
Building and maintaining a valuable network of clients through in-person engagement and a strong online presence.
Collaborating with internal experts to develop compelling, technically credible proposals and pitches.
Managing and growing a prospective sales pipeline alongside existing client accounts.
Listening carefully to client challenges to develop targeted strategies that turn ideas into commercially successful products.
Negotiating contracts and contributing to the evolution of the go-to-market strategy.
Identifying and championing emerging opportunities, energising the team to explore new areas.
This is a role that combines genuine scientific or engineering credibility with a flair for building relationships and identifying new commercial opportunities.
This is a rare opportunity to work on novel medical device development, with recent project examples including next-generation implantable sensors for diabetes management, laser systems for sight-saving treatments, and non-invasive surgical technologies targeting cancer.
We are ideally looking for an engineer with the following attributes;
Technical knowledge in a field relevant or adjacent to medical devices and healthcare.
Strong fundamentals in either mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, or physics.
A natural ability to grasp unfamiliar technical and commercial contexts, extracting relevant detail in a sales environment.
An entrepreneurial spirit with a desire to seek out and convert new business opportunities.
Excellent interpersonal skills, collaborative, curious, and able to build trusted relationships with both clients and colleagues.
Confident, clear, and empathetic communication style.
Willingness to travel for in-person meetings, events, and client engagements.
The company offer a highly competitive and comprehensive package, including:
Annual profit-related bonus.
Mentoring from senior leadership
Shares — a stake in the long-term success of the business.
Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary.
Private medical insurance for employees and dependants.
Life insurance worth 6× salary.
25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
Enhanced parental leave and flexible return-to-work support.
Free onsite lunch at an award-winning campus.
Electric car leasing, cycle-to-work, and season ticket loan schemes.
Access to local sports facilities, theatre discounts, and memberships.
Comprehensive relocation support where applicable.
If you would like to learn more about the role then make a confidential application now and a member of our team will be in touch with more details.....Read more...
Datacoms Technician required for the Enterprise Engineering team of a global organisation with HQ in Redhill, Surrey.
You will be responsible for a variety of services offered to their customers.
These include:
- Bespoke hardware/software developments to provide customers with the ability to better manage their remote site traffic, and user experience
- Meeting with external customers to design on-board vessel and land networks for fleets and remote sites, including bespoke designs, traffic prioritisation, integration into existing infrastructure, and ongoing support.
- Finding off the shelf products/developing in-house products/system design and integration to best suit the needs of business and their clients, testing/evaluating updates/releases, and adding them into the Product Portfolio
- The design and management of the Global infrastructure and Customer networks, including requirements capture, traffic shaping, traffic acceleration, VoIP and systems management.
This role is to provide expertise on all types of data communications ranging from single email applications to complex computer networks and involving the use of devices including firewalls and routers.
To support the Enterprise Engineering team by providing technical support, in a professional manner to the customer and supporting solutions.
Existing solutions - you will be involved as part of a team in supporting/maintaining include our in-house product ranges incorporating VoIP platforms, email services, file replication, hotspot solutions, software distribution, web filtering, firewalling, virtualisation, high-availability and video entertainment services
Key Tasks · Work as a team member within Enterprise Engineering to support the smooth running of Customer projects and participate proactively in all team responsibilities · To own, investigate and resolve escalated engineering service issues, providing accurate and timely technical information/analyses ·
To provide support as part of the Enterprise Engineering team in the build, implementation, test commissioning and installation of customer networks both at HQ and at remote sites ·
Create, develop and maintain project documentation methods for all Enterprise/Customer projects and solutions · To assist Enterprise Engineering with product, application and service evaluation based on requirements from customers, sales, marketing and Product Management ·
To mobilise at short notice to survey, install or configure customer networks ·
To keep abreast of new developments in the IT & communications industry which are applicable to their markets ·
If required, to participate in the Enterprise Support Engineer shift rota
Qualifications:
· Degree (2:1) or HND/HNC in IT/Electronics/Computer Science or related area
· CISCO / MS qualifications
Mandatory:
· Good knowledge of TCP/IP networking concepts including Routing, Switching, Firewalling, including Layer 7 firewalls
· Ability to diagnose complex faults, document, communicate and follow up corrective actions
· Good experience with modern digital satellite communications &/or IT systems.
· A professional and flexible approach with a proactive "can do" attitude
Ability to work effectively as part of a team, and independently on your own projects
Desirable:
· Project planning and delivery experience
· Good Server Operating System knowledge (Linux, Windows)
· Asterisk/VoIP platforms
· Programming knowledge (Perl, bash)
· Hardware and Software systems development and design experience
Monday-Friday, 09:00am-17:30pm.....Read more...
