Area Sales Manager - Plumbing & Heating

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

Job summary

A leading specialist recruitment consultancy seeks an Area Sales Manager in the plumbing and heating sector in the Midlands and South. The ideal candidate will have sales experience, strong business acumen, and a passion for the role. Responsibilities include selling technical products to contractors and increasing account turnover. Benefits include a fully expensed hybrid car and performance-based bonuses.

Benefits

Fully expensed hybrid car

Performance-based bonuses

Qualifications

• Sales experience with the plumbing and heating industry, ideally selling to contractors.
• Ideally some technical field sales experience with M&E contractors or HVAC contractors.
• Passionate with determination and tenacity.

Responsibilities

• Sell a large range of valves, thermostatic control products, and pipes.
• Target hospitals, schools, health centres, and commercial buildings.
• Responsible for increasing turnover from £150,000 to £250,000 in year one.

Skills

Sales experience with plumbing and heating industry

Technical field sales experience

Business acumen

Negotiating skills

Team player

Job description

Overview

Area Sales Manager - Plumbing & Heating

Industry Sector: M&E Contractors, HVAC Contractors, Plumbing & Heating Contractors, M&E Consultants, Building Services Consultants and Plumbing & Heating Merchants

Area to be covered: Midlands and South

Remuneration: £40,000 Neg. + 20-25% Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits

Responsibilities

• Technical field sales position selling a large manufactured range of valves, thermostatic control products, pipes, HIU's (heat interface units) and manifolds
• Promoting products and solutions for isolation, regulation and control of heating and domestic water services
• Typically targeting hospitals, schools, health centres, housing associations, commercial and large public buildings
• 50% New business and 50% account development role, you will be inheriting an area which has not had dedicated field sales representation but does have some large accounts that are spending a small amount currently
• Targeted to increase turnover from £150,000 to £250,000 in year one
• Responsible for approx. 60-80 trading accounts
• Majority of your time will be spent with M&E contractors, HVAC contractors, mechanical contractors or plumbing and building services contractors
• The remainder of your time winning specifications with consulting engineers, local authorities, M&E consultants, other specifiers and some small independent plumbers merchants via a deal with UKPS
• Excellent field sales support
• 6 calls per day, plus 2 calls per week with consultants

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Plumbing & Heating with

• Sales experience with the plumbing and heating industry, ideally sold to contractor customers
• Mechanical engineering/ building services industry background not essential
• Ideally some technical field sales experience with M&E contractors, HVAC contractors or building services contractors
• Specification field sales experience with M&E consultants, and consulting engineers is not essential
• Passionate with tonnes of determination, drive and tenacity
• Building services / HVAC construction industry contacts would be useful
• Must be a team player and have the ability and personality to integrate into a team working environment
• Business acumen and negotiating skills
• Preferably with prior experience within commercial, healthcare and local authority sectors

The Company

• Well established
• 15+ UK employees
• Circa £5m UK turnover
• Part of a large European group with turnover in excess of €100m

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: HVAC, M&E, thermostatic control products, pipes manifolds, fittings, pumps, boilers, calorifier, heat exchanges, boiler, HIU's (heat interface units), valves, safety valve, compression fitting, couplings, repair clamps, regulators, ball valves, gas controls, strainers, backflow preventers, boilers, plumbing, insulation, heating and all other associated M&E building services solutions