Account Executive – Building Materials Sales

Jewson; Northampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Pension

Life Assurance

WorkPerks

Employee discount

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Job summary

Jewson is seeking a Sales Executive to manage and grow a portfolio of accounts across Northamptonshire. You will build strong customer relationships, drive profitable sales and deliver a seamless experience through proactive engagement and effective project follow-up.

Working closely with branch teams and suppliers, you will ensure orders run smoothly while identifying opportunities to grow, onboard and reactivate accounts.

Qualifications

• Experience within a sales, account management or customer support role.
• Commercial and pricing awareness of margins, rebates, delivery charges, and credit processes.
• Clear and professional communicator across phone, email, and in-person; able to build relationships with customers at all levels, local branches, suppliers and regional support teams .

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow your assigned account portfolio.
• Develop trust relationships with a portfolio of customers to maintain and improve profitability.
• Be proactive, responsive, and visible, including regular site visits and customer check-ins.
• Simplify the customer experience by ensuring close management of all owned accounts.
• Follow up and requote projects as required to meet or exceed agreed revenue, margin, and growth targets across assigned customer base.
• Work closely with branches to ensure customer orders are prioritised, accurate, and aligned to site schedules and specific delivery requirements.
• Provide specification & product data as required.
• Support branches with the on-boarding of new account, ensuring that they start and continue to spend.
• Acquire a thorough understanding of customer needs and requirements, expanding relationships by continuously proposing solutions that meet the customer’s needs.
• Target dormant and lapsed accounts to reactivate them.
• Build strong supplier relationships & work in partnership to secure & grow customer business.
• Demonstrate strong team ethics by working collaboratively with branches and colleagues, overcoming challenges together and supporting one another to deliver consistently strong outcomes for customers.

Skills

Account management

Customer relationships

Sales driven

Communication

Job description

Jewson is seeking a Sales Executive to manage and grow a portfolio of accounts across Northamptonshire. You will build strong customer relationships, drive profitable sales and deliver a seamless experience through proactive engagement and effective project follow-up.

Working closely with branch teams and suppliers, you will ensure orders run smoothly while identifying opportunities to grow, onboard and reactivate accounts.