Area Sales Manager

Gordon Yates Recruitment Consultancy; West Yorkshire; Remote; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully expensed electric vehicle

Pension

Health insurance

25 days leave per year

Job summary

The Area Sales Manager role covers the M62 region across West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and surrounding areas. You will sell bathrooms, showers and plumbing products to public sector bodies, housing associations and contractors, while managing existing accounts and developing new business from leads to close.

This field-based role blends home working with regional travel, reporting to an experienced leadership team and targeting c£2m regional turnover.

Qualifications

• Track record of success in B2B field sales.
• Experience selling construction or related products (training provided).
• Experience selling to local authorities, housing associations or contractors.

Responsibilities

• Sell bathrooms, showering and plumbing products to public sector and social housing channels.
• Manage existing and new customers across the region.
• Generate leads and develop new business to win opportunities.
• Track sales processes from lead to order and build relationships at each stage.

Skills

B2B sales

Construction products

Housing sector experience

New business development

Regional sales

Job description

AREA SALES MANAGER

INTRODUCTION

Our client is a long-established manufacturing brand in the UK bathroom, showers and plumbing industry. Supplying public sector and private national and regional customers, they have developed a reputation for product and service excellence across the UK. As part of continued growth, they now need a field sales professional in the M62 area.

LOCATION

Home-based / remote / field based. M62 field sales area: West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Wetherby, Huddersfield, Halifax, Manchester, Oldham, Warrington, Chester, Chorley, and surrounding area.

THE ROLE

The Area Sales Manager role is both home and field based and takes responsibility for a c£2m turnover sales region:

• Selling our client's range of bathrooms, showering and plumbing products into the public sector and social housing channel.
• Managing a range of existing and new customers across the region (local authorities, councils, occupational therapists, housing associations, social housing, contractors and developers).
• Managing a leads and data, alongside the creation of new business to identify and win new sales opportunities with a range of contacts and stakeholders.
• Tracking sales processes and projects from start to finish, building relationships and influencing at each stage.
• Supported by an experienced leadership team; develop a successful sales strategy to deliver growth and hit targets.

THE PERSON NEEDED

• A track record of success in a B2B field sales role
• Prior experience selling either a construction or similar product (*full product training given)
• Prior experience selling into a comparable market sector or customer type e.g. local authorities, councils, occupational therapists, housing associations, social housing, contractors and developers
• A positive to approach in driving growth across the sales region and the willingness to be a motivated team contributor.

THE REWARDS

• £45K Basic salary +15-20K OTE
• Fully expensed electric vehicle, pension, health insurance, 25 days leave pa, full package.

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