Area Sales Manager

Team First Recruitment; Sevenoaks; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Team First Recruitment is seeking an Area Sales Manager to cover South East London and Kent for a successful builders’ merchant. You will build and maintain relationships with contractors and housebuilders, visit customers, and win new business while also sharing in office responsibilities such as enquiries and quotations.

Ideal candidates will have field sales experience in builders’ merchants or construction-related sectors, with a track record of growing territory and accounts.

Qualifications

• Ideal candidates will have field sales experience within builders’ merchants, building materials, tool hire or construction.
• Ability to develop an area with high potential and grow key accounts across South East London and Kent.
• Strong relationship-building skills and a proven track record of winning new business.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop your own customer base.
• Spend most of the week out visiting customers and identifying opportunities.
• Office time to handle enquiries, quotations, and coordinate with the sales team.
• Identify new opportunities and grow existing accounts by understanding customer requirements.

Skills

Field sales experience

Builders merchant experience

Territory management

Job description

We’re looking for an Area Sales Manager to join a successful builders’ merchant, developing and growing relationships with contractors and housebuilders across South East London and Kent. This is a role for someone who enjoys being out meeting customers, developing relationships and winning new business, but also values having a strong team and office environment to come back to.

You’ll be responsible for managing and developing your own customer base, you'll spend most of your week out visiting customers and developing new opportunities, with the rest of your time based in the office managing enquiries, preparing quotations, following up opportunities and working closely with the wider sales team.

You’ll identify new opportunities, develop existing accounts and work with customers to understand their requirements and find the right products and solutions for their projects.

Ideally, you’ll already have field sales experience within a builders’ merchant, building materials, tool hire or construction environment. They are looking for a driven sales professional with experience of territory / field sales who can develop an area with huge potential or someone with sales experience within a builders merchant branch looking for the next step.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a friendly, hard-working team with a market-leading company where you will be given full support and training.

In return, you’ll have the freedom and variety of a field-based sales role, alongside the support and stability of being part of an office-based team when you’re not out with customers.

Area Sales Manager/Field Sales/Sales Executive/Territory Sales