Area Sales Manager

CPJ Recruitment; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Company car

Life assurance

Company pension

27 days leave

Job summary

CPJ Recruitment invites applications for an Area Sales Manager role covering landscaping products across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Herefordshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Bristol. You will manage a top territory, win specifications with contractors and architects, and nurture relationships with builders merchants.

The position is field-based, hybrid, with a high-visibility sales focus and a strong career development path within a respected manufacturer.

Qualifications

• Background in construction field sales with a stable, consistent track record.
• Experience of end to end project sales, from specification through to order, is essential.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, confident engaging decision makers at every level.

Responsibilities

• Inherit one of the best performing territories with a strong existing customer base.
• Spend around 80% of time winning and tracking project specifications with main contractors and architects across your territory.
• Spend around 20% developing relationships and back selling through builders merchants.
• Field based, covering the M4 corridor from Bristol through to Cambridge and the home counties.
• Deliver CPD presentations to specifiers and drive demand for new and existing products across accounts.

Skills

Construction field sales

End-to-end project sales

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Job description

A rare opportunity to join an award winning, widely respected manufacturer within the construction industry.

Area Sales Manager - Landscaping Products

Area: Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Herefordshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Bristol

The Role

• You will inherit one of the best performing territories in the business, with a strong existing customer base already in place
• Around 80% of your time will be spent winning and tracking project specifications with main contractors and architects across your territory
• The remaining 20% will be spent developing relationships and back selling through builders merchants
• Field based, covering the M4 corridor from Bristol through to Cambridge and the home counties
• Delivering CPD presentations to specifiers and driving demand for new and existing products across your accounts

The Company

Our client is an award winning, widely respected manufacturer within the construction industry, specialising in landscaping products and consumables. They are known for a genuinely supportive culture, and it shows: the majority of their senior leadership team and key account team have progressed their own careers from this very role, so this is a genuine long term career path rather than a one off vacancy. You will be backed by a fully invested after sales team, a dedicated customer service function and a marketing department built to give you everything you need to succeed.

The Candidate

• A background in construction field sales with a stable, consistent track record
• Experience of end to end project sales, from specification through to order, is essential
• Strong presentation and communication skills, confident engaging decision makers at every level

The Package

• Basic Salary: up to £50,000
• OTE: £10,000 plus
• Hybrid, high spec company car
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Company pension with 7.5% employer contribution
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

This is a rare chance to join a business that genuinely invests in and promotes its people, in one of its strongest performing territories.