Technical Sales Specialist – High performance Coatings

Location United Kingdom
Discipline: Chemicals, Coatings, Polymers
Job type: Technical Sales Executive
Salary: £Competitive salary
Contact name: Dr Jeremy Clarke

Contact email: jeremy@merrittrecruitment.com
Job ref: 446
Published: 11 days ago

Technical Sales Specialist – High performance Coatings

Remote working with UK & International Travel

Our client is a market leader in high‑performance aerospace, transport and industrial coatings. We’re searching for a commercially driven, technically confident Technical Sales Specialist to accelerate growth, develop partnerships and help to shape future product innovation.

This is a high‑impact role for a proven technical and commercial professional who thrives in complex, regulated environments and enjoys working closely with the complete coatings value chain including OEM and MRO.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue, margin and market growth across aerospace, transport and industrial coating sectors.

  • Own and expand key accounts, building long‑term strategic relationships.

  • Identify and convert new business opportunities and applications.

  • Provide first‑line technical support, interpreting specifications and advising on coating systems, application and standards.

  • Support trials, approvals, demonstrations and new product/application development.

  • Lead proposals, tenders, pricing and commercial negotiations.

  • Represent the company at global exhibitions, conferences and customer events.

  • Maintain accurate CRM data, forecasts and market intelligence.

Essential Skills

  • Background in formulation, or the application techniques for high performance technical coatings

  • A track record in technical sales, business development or key account management within the industry.

  • Confident communicator able to engage technical, commercial and regulatory stakeholders.

  • Good industrial experience

  • Awareness of export controls, quality systems and compliance

  • Willingness to travel across the UK and internationally around 60% of the time to manage complex customer programmes.

  • Hold a full UK driving license

  • Have the right to work in the UK. Our client is unable to support or sponsor visa applications

Desirable skills

  • Client focused, personable individual

  • Driven to develop opportunity and revenue growth

  • Excellent at developing long term personal and business relationships

  • Able to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.

  • Professional, collaborative, and results-oriented.

  • Used to navigate long specification development, testing, approval and sales cycles

Expectations of the role

  • Year‑on‑year sales growth.

  • New approvals, product introductions and market penetration.

  • High customer satisfaction and strong retention of key accounts.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a respected and growing business with an ambitious vision for growth, backed by the expertise, heritage and global reputation of an internationally recognised high performance coatings manufacturer.