Area Sales Manager

Job Description

• 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
• 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 Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire. 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 to bring in new skills & experience in to 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
• A hunger, drive, and desire to win new business with contractors & installers
• Have exposure to the construction market would be advantageous
• 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 DOE + 15% bonus + Car + Pension + 25 days holiday

Candidate Location: Milton Keynes, Bedford, Luton, Oxford

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