Area Sales Manager

Close Brothers Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Close Brothers Asset Finance as a Sales Professional, where you'll drive business growth within the industrial print sector. Your role will involve building client relationships, achieving sales targets, and providing tailored financing solutions. A strong background in sales and finance, along with excellent interpersonal skills, is essential. Enjoy a hybrid working environment that fosters flexibility and encourages diversity.

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing sales environment, consistently meeting or exceeding targets.
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels and build customer relationships.
• Strong business and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Source and engage with customers across the South-West area.
• Build long-lasting relationships and negotiate sales terms.
• Implement a strategic business plan to expand customer base.

Skills

Sales driven

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Financial acumen

Job description

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At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Are you a motivated sales professional ready to make an impact within a specialist market? Join our expert team at Close Brothers Asset Finance, where you'll play a key role in growing our footprint within the industrial print sector. As Part of our Print business, you'll be responsible for meeting ambitious sales targets by providing tailored Asset Finance solutions and related services to businesses across the sector.

We're looking for a confident, results-orientated person with a strong sales background and a talent for building effective, lasting relationships with customers. If you have a background in Asset Finance or specialist Print Equipment, that's a huge plus - but above all, we're looking for someone with initiative, commercial and financial acumen, and the motivation to succeed in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

This is a field based role, so you'll work from home, being based near Bristol or generally across the South West of England or Wales. The role involves significant amounts of travel, so a valid drivers licence is required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactively sources sales from across the South-West, either by directly prospecting the existing customer base, sourcing new customers or through dealer introducers.
• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
• Act as a contact between the company and its existing and potential markets, negotiating terms of an agreement and closing sales, gathering market and customer information.
• Make accurate, rapid quotations and provide customers with the relevant information to close the deal.
• Design and implement a strategic business plan that expands company’s customer base and ensure its strong presence.
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status
• Ensure that all Governance and Compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the Regulatory Bodies are carried out to the standards required.
• Ensure you operate within the context of the FCA regulations at all times and that the Treating Customers Fairly initiative is fully adhered to.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE/ARE:

• Experience of working in a customer-facing sales environment, consistently meeting or exceeding targets
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate at all levels
• Sales driven with an ability to plan and manage own activities and contact strategy
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Excellent sales and negotiation skills

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE:

• Previous experience of Asset Finance
• Some knowledge of the Print industries (with a focus on asset expertise)
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial information

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at or request a call back.

ABOUT US

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.