Area Sales Manager

Elev8 Recruitment Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable recruitment agency seeks an Area Sales Manager for North UK to represent a premium brand in the high purity gas control market. The role emphasizes autonomy, problem-solving, and building strong customer relationships without micromanagement. Ideal candidates should have a technical sales background and desire to sell on value. This position offers a £55k salary with a potential 20% bonus and opportunities to address complex customer challenges.

Benefits

£55k salary

20% bonus

Autonomy in role

Trust in decision making

Genuine premium brand representation

Qualifications

• Industrial or technical sales background is essential.
• Ability to sell based on value rather than discounts.
• Strong rapport-building skills with clients.

Responsibilities

• Cover the North UK region, including Yorkshire and Scotland.
• Develop long-term consultative partnerships with clients.
• Understand customer challenges and recommend appropriate solutions.

Skills

Technical sales skills

Problem-solving

Relationship building

Logical reasoning

Job description

Area Sales Manager (North UK)

£55k + 20% bonus

Sick of flogging low quality kit and being treated like an order taker?

You know the drill. Customers push for discounts because they do not trust the product. Managers want more calls and more quotes. The support you get is basically a spreadsheet once a month and a pat on the head. Hard to take pride in the job when the tools you are given are not up to scratch.

Here is what is different:

They sell premium kit that engineers actually respect. The kind of equipment that does not fail, does not need excuses, and does not damage your reputation. You are not discounting your way to a deal. You are solving problems. Proper technical value led selling.

And you are trusted to run your patch like a grown up. No micromanagement. No daily dashboards. Just autonomy, support when you need it, and a brand with enough credibility that you do not need to blag your way through conversations.

The reality:

You will cover the North including Yorkshire, the North West, the North East and Scotland. You will build and develop relationships across industries like pharma, labs, semicon, automotive and wider industrial users of high purity gas control equipment.
New business, yes. But also long term consultative partnerships where logic, curiosity and honest conversations beat hard selling every time.

You will get deep into customer challenges, understand their processes, and recommend high quality high accuracy kit that actually solves issues. Think more problem solver and less catalogue pusher.

What you get:

• £55k salary
• 20% bonus
• Represent a genuinely premium brand
• Massive trust and autonomy
• A product range that makes conversations easier not harder
• Space to build real relationships rather than chase quick wins

You will love this if:

• You have an industrial or technical sales background
• You want to sell on value not discounts
• You are naturally logical and good at breaking down technical problems
• You build quick rapport and are comfortable with commercial conversations
• You are fed up with being micromanaged or blamed for issues caused by poor quality products

If you want to take pride in what you sell and stop feeling like a walking discount code this one is worth a conversation.

Apply now.