Area Sales Manager

Saint-Gobain Ecophon UK and Ireland; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Area Sales Manager to enhance their client base across East Midlands and Yorkshire. This home-based role requires travel, focusing on building relationships and implementing a targeted sales plan. The ideal candidate will have a strong sales background, commercial acumen, and the ability to identify opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales, preferably in construction/distribution.
• Ability to implement a successful sales plan.

Responsibilities

• Grow opportunities across East Midlands and Yorkshire.
• Negotiate commercial deals and support contracts.
• Build and maintain key customer relationships.

Skills

Sales

Relationship Building

Commercial Acumen

Proactivity

Job description

At Saint-Gobain Ecophon, we are looking for an Area Sales Manager to join our sales team, working with a client base across Architects, main-contractors, sub-contractors and distributors.

You’ll be responsible for working our client base in the East Midlands and Yorkshire regions, implementing and delivering a portable and targeted sales plan, improving our market share.

Saint-Gobain Ecophon develops, manufactures and markets acoustic products and systems that contribute to a good working environment by enhancing people’s well-being and performance.

This role is home-based, but travel is required across the region we’d envision the successful candidate to be out around 4 days per week.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience working within sales, preferably within construction/distributions and/or other similar industries
• Able to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong commercial acumen including negotiating and able to market map
• Ability to work and implement a successful sales plan in your region
• Proactivity, our customers want us in front of them, you’ll be able to spot opportunities and find solutions to problems

What you will be doing:

• Proactively service and grow opportunity across East Midlands and Yorkshire client base
• Involvement in contract support, supporting and negotiating commercial deals
• Visiting our customers regularly, building and maintaining key relationships
• Be the focal point between customers, and other internal stakeholders

Are SG Ecophon and Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision-making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we’re always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We’ll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can’t promise to meet every request when we’re recruiting, but we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person. We look forward to hearing from you!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Building Materials, Wholesale Building Materials, and Construction

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