Area Sales Manager - Building Plastics

Mitchell Maguire; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment consultancy specializing in construction sales is seeking a field sales representative for a diverse range of building plastics. The role offers a salary of £45,000 plus up to 40% bonus. Responsibilities include managing a significant customer ledger and generating substantial new business revenue. Candidates should have field sales experience, ideally with builders merchants or in related products. This position supports a hybrid work model involving regional collaboration.

Benefits

Fully expensed hybrid car

Full benefits package

Competitive bonus structure

Qualifications

• Experience selling to builders merchants or contractors.
• Open to building product sales backgrounds.
• Driven and target-focused individual.

Responsibilities

• Sell a range of building plastics to contractors and installers.
• Generate new business revenue of £750,000.
• Manage existing portfolio and develop new business.

Skills

Field sales experience

Analytical thinking

Team player

Target-focused attitude

Job description

Overview

Area to be covered: South West & South Wales. Remuneration: £45,000 Neg. + up to 40% Bonus. Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits.

Responsibilities

• Field sales position selling a distributed range of building plastics.
• Huge portfolio of products including; wall panels, fascias & soffits, guttering, cladding, decking, drainage, trims & sills, roofing and windows & doors.
• Selling into various contractor/installers; roofing contractors, cladding contractors, window fitters, decking contractors as well as general tradesmen, builder's merchants, small housebuilders etc.
• Responsible for one of the largest ledgers nationally - £9m.
• Tasked with generating £750,000 new business revenue.
• Stimulating demand with various contractors and back selling through 8 branches on the area.
• Typically 16 appointments per week.
• Supporting individual branches as and when required (branches can range in turnover from £30,000-£200,000 per month).
• 70% of your time managing existing portfolio customers 30% new business development (target list of customers will be provided).
• Working closely with the regional team of area managers at branch level supporting their sales activities a couple of days a week, 2 days on the road visiting customers and a day working from home/ administration.

Qualifications / Ideal Applicant

• Worked for or selling to a builders merchants.
• Building plastics associated field sales experience would be ideal.
• Open to building product field sales backgrounds with experience of selling into contractor/installers; roofing contractors, cladding contractors, window fitters, decking contractors or general tradesmen, builder's merchants, small housebuilders etc.
• Open to builders merchant/ distribution field sales backgrounds.
• Specific knowledge of wall panels, fascias & soffits, guttering, cladding, decking, drainage, trims & sills, roofing and windows & doors is not essential as full product training will be provided.
• Driven, target focussed and a team player; Analytical thinker.

Company

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Field Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within: Building Products, Construction, Building Contractors, Sub Contractors, Installers, Regional Housebuilders, Builders Merchants, Wall Panels, Fascias & Soffits, Guttering, Cladding, Decking, Drainage, Trims & Sills, Roofing and Windows & Doors.