Area Sales Manager - Contract Kitchens

Mitchell Maguire; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy is seeking an Area Sales Manager for Contract Kitchens to engage with regional and national housebuilders across the North. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of kitchen sales experience and will focus on both new business development and account management. The position offers a competitive salary with benefits including a fully expensed hybrid car.

Benefits

Fully expensed hybrid car

Commission structure

Qualifications

• 2 years+ kitchen sales experience essential.
• Charismatic, professional, and confident personality.
• Methodical and organized with good planning.

Responsibilities

• Field sales role focusing on contract kitchens.
• Manage 20-30 housebuilder accounts.
• Engage in both new business development and existing account management.

Skills

Kitchen sales experience

New business development

Account management capability

Communication skills

IT literacy

Organizational skills

Job description

Area Sales Manager Contract Kitchens

Job Title: Area Sales Manager Contract Kitchens

Industry Sector: KBB, Contract Kitchens, Regional Housebuilders, National Housebuilders, Private Developers and Builders

Area to be covered: North (based M62 corridor)

Remuneration: GBP35,000 Neg. + commission

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid car or EV & Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager Kitchens will involve:

• Field sales role selling our clients manufactured range of contract kitchens
• Selling into regional housebuilders and housing developers/ national housebuilders such as Miller Homes, Muir Homes, Barratt Homes etc.
• 50% new business development role, will involve getting on the phone and visiting clients face to face
• 50% account management of circa 20-30 housebuilder customers
• Projects from 25-500 plots (GBP60,000-GBP5m+)
• Typically 3-4 days a week on the road, remainder working from home
• Ideally 2-3 meaningful customer visits a day when on the road
• Working through a housebuilder list as well as your own contacts
• Visiting show plots and marketing suites to identify the relevant decision makers
• Presenting pricing exercises, tending for real projects
• Attending 3 days of initial training in Europe

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Contract Kitchens with:

• 2 years+ kitchen sales experience
• Would suit kitchen sales designer looking to make first step into field sales
• New business hunter and account management capability
• Good on the phone
• Charismatic, very personable, professional and confident
• IT literate
• Organised, methodical, good journey planner
• Well presented
• Preferable on the up in career

The Company:

• Est. 20 years+
• UK subsidiary of European manufacturer
• Circa GBP25m turnover
• 50+ Employees

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: housebuilders, private developers, contract kitchens, builders, taps, showers, accessories, brassware, sanitaryware, kitchens, bedrooms, vanity units, wardrobes, bathrooms, interiors, flooring, ceilings, wall coverings, partitions, tiles, flooring and all other associated KBB products