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Location: UK-Harrow
Work Pattern: Onsite-Office based
Language Skills: English (Additional European Language skills required)
Estimated Start Date: July 2025
We're hiring! Join our growing team of Inside Sales Engineers.
If you have a strong technical background combined with exceptional sales abilities, and you're eager to advance your career with a leading technology company, we would like to hear from you!
About Us:
Electro Rent is a global leader in test and technology solutions that help organisations accelerate innovation and optimise investments. Electro Rent's single-source solution — including rental, financial solutions, sale of new and used equipment, and asset optimisation — supports leading innovators across many key sectors, including aerospace and defence, automotive, communications, energy, semiconductor, and general electronics. Founded in 1965, Electro Rent operates globally to deliver unmatched technical and commercial flexibility.
Inside Sales Engineer - About You:
You’ll be a results-driven sales professional with a passion for customer engagement and a track record of success in inside sales or business development. You will be highly organised, persistent in outbound prospecting, and motivated by achieving commercial targets.
Inside Sales Engineer - Why Join Us?

  • Opportunity to develop your career within a growing, global organisation.
  • Great company culture
  • Competitive salary and great benefit
  • Private Medical Healthcare
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to work Scheme.
  • Great transport links
  • Parking on-site
  • Complimentary meals and snacks
    Inside Sales Engineer - What You’ll Be Doing
  • Own and Deliver on Named-Account Targets: Carry and achieve personal bookings and revenue quotas against a pre-assigned list of telecom accounts (key Installation & Maintenance customers and prospects for Wireless & Wireline (fibre) business).
  • Full Sales Cycle Management: Qualify, develop, and close opportunities across your assigned segment or region with minimal handover.
  • Outbound Sales Campaign Execution: Execute structured daily outreach through calls, emails, LinkedIn, and re-engagement campaigns aligned to commercial priorities.
  • Lead Qualification & Conversion: Respond to inbound inquiries quickly and professionally, qualifying leads into opportunities and managing them to close.
  • Pipeline Development & Forecasting: Maintain a strong, self-generated pipeline and ensure CRM accuracy to support reliable forecasting and reporting.
  • Customer Retention & Cross-Sell: Engage with existing customers for transactional business and identify upsell or cross-sell opportunities to maximise account value.
    Inside Sales Engineer - What you’ll have:
    Essential
  • Extensive experience in inside sales, business development, or telesales
  • Proven success managing the full sales cycle: outreach, qualification, proposal, and close.
  • Strong outbound prospecting skills—comfortable cold calling and running campaigns.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication with a persuasive, consultative style
  • Experience working with CRMs (e.g., Salesforce) and sales enablement tools.
  • Highly organised and accountable, with strong forecasting discipline
  • Ability to build rapport and engage technical buyers across industries.
    Desirable:
  • Knowledge of electronic test & measurement equipment, rentals, or industrial sectors
  • Understanding of B2B solution selling and technical buyer personas
  • Degree or higher education in a technical, business, or engineering discipline

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