Area Sales Manager
- World renowned brand & market leader in plumbing & heating
- Career progression opportunities to be had for those who want it
- Working with national & independent plumbing wholesalers across South Staffs, South Yorks, and Derbyshire
- Field sales position targeting plumbing contractors to generate demand & win new business
- A British Manufacturer!
Area Sales Manager
The Role: As an Area Sales Manager you will be covering the area of South Yorkshire, South Staffordshire, and Derbyshire. 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. 40% of your time will be account management which is more with the merchants, 60% will be generating demand with the end user contractors. This part of the role is activity driven, hosting trade-mornings in branches, targeting contractor 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 to bring in new skills & experience into their sales team. 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. They're a long-established British Manufacturer with a heritage of quality which they are immensely proud of.
We are looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:
- Have a good B2B sales track record in the field of plumbing & heating OR construction products
- A hunger, drive, and desire to win new business with contractors & installers
- Have a track-record of business development behaviours clearly shown on your CV
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Have sold to, or worked for, merchants or wholesalers in the past would be advantageous
- Activity & target driven
- Full & Clean Driving licence
Salary: £40k- 45k basic salary DOE + 15% bonus + Company Car (hybrid) + Pension (5% matched) + 25 days holiday
Candidate Location: Stoke, Derby, Sheffield
