Area Sales Manager
- World renowned brand & market leader in the plumbing & heating sector
- Excellent career progression opportunity
- Working with national & independent wholesalers in the North East & Cumbria
- Field sales position targeting plumbing contractors to generate demand
- Top product & brand in the plumbing & heating world
Area Sales Manager
The Role: As an Area Sales Manager you will be covering the North East & Cumbria area and your role will be targeting Plumbing Contractors across the region and selling a superb range of pumps, valves, temperature control and push-fit piping products via your Merchant & Wholesale channel partners. These would find themselves in commercial buildings, domestic settings, and high-rise accommodation applications. You will build local relationships with contractors whilst ensuring your channel partners are very well looked after and serviced. 50% of your time will be account management which is more with the merchants, 50% will be generating demand with the end user contractors. This part of the role is activity driven, hosting trade-mornings in branches, 'skip chasing' projects on the ground, and training Branch staff in your product lines. This is an exciting, varied, and rewarding sales role for a major British manufacturing powerhouse.
The Company: Our client is one of the world leaders in the plumbing & heating arena. They have built on last year's success and are looking forward to 2024 and the market opening up. They are a business with a lot of knowledge and expertise and are looking to enhance that in the Sales Team. This is a rare opportunity to come in at this level and they have a culture of developing people and pride themselves on longevity of staff and the training they put their people through.
We are looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:
- Have a good B2B sales track record, either internally or externally
- A hunger, drive, and desire to win new business with contractors & installers
- Have exposure to the plumbing & heating market
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Have sold to, or worked for, merchants in the past would be advantageous
- Activity & target driven
- Full & Clean Driving licence
Candidate Location: Newcastle, Middlesborough, Sunderland, Durham, Carlisle
Salary: £35k- 45k DOE + 15% bonus + Car + Pension + 25 days holiday
