Area Sales Manager

Stirling Warrington; Crawley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Stirling Warrington is seeking an Area Sales Manager to cover your patch, supporting all builder’s merchants and recruiting new stockists nationwide and with independents. You will build relationships with branch staff and head office personnel, and work with buying groups to ensure products are available and well merchandised.

You will train and educate contractors on products, organise trade days and product demonstrations as part of a proactive growth strategy across a large geographic area.

Qualifications

• Experience selling construction products, ideally flooring, tiling, adhesives.
• Established contacts with national and independent builders’ merchants.
• Ability to nurture long-term relationships and educate staff at branches.
• Willingness to travel across a large patch with a structured plan.

Responsibilities

• Cover your area, supporting all existing builder’s merchants and getting into new stockists.
• Build lasting relationships with branch staff and head office personnel.
• Work alongside buying groups to ensure products are merchandised at branches.
• Demonstrate products and train contractors through trade days and product demonstrations.

Skills

Live on the patch

Hunter mentality

Farmer mentality

Relationship building

Job description

£45,000 - £60,000 car, phone, laptop, plus career progression opportunities

My client is a world-class manufacturing business with products that clients need that can be used in a variety of different routes to market.

I have placed several people with this business over the past few years and the feedback I have received after they have started has been amazing. The company has onboarded them well and integrated them into existing. The training on systems and products has been second to none.

Due to investment and huge growth plans, they are looking to recruit an area sales manager to focus on selling their products to builders’ merchants both nationals and independents

Are you a driven Area Sales Manager looking for a company that is going places and is willing to take you and your career on the journey with them?

Role

You will cover your area, supporting all existing builder’s merchants and getting into new stockists. This will include national merchants and independent merchants and buying groups.

Within the branches, you will make sure you are building lasting relationships with all staff in the branches and head office personnel. You will also be working closely with the buying groups. The aim of this role is to have products available at each branch and good merchandising. You will also work alongside your merchant branches to train and educate contractors on your products, this will involve trade days and product demonstrations.

Candidate

• Live on the patch


• Contacts and relationships with national and independent builders’ merchants


• Experience of selling a construction product, ideally flooring, tiling, adhesives; however other products will be considered


• Longevity through roles


• You will have a hunter and a farmer mentality


• You will be well versed with working with a structured plan as this is a large area to cover