Horticulture Technical Area Sales Manager

MorePeople; Dundee; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Pension

Private healthcare

Bonus structure

Structured training and support (incl.

BASIS & FACTS if needed)

Job summary

MorePeople is recruiting a Horticulture Technical Area Sales Manager to cover Southwest England from a home-based role with travel. You will blend horticultural expertise with technical product advice to grow sales across nurseries, grower accounts, and distributors.

The role focuses on combining growing knowledge with a commercial mindset, building lasting relationships and delivering product trials, while collaborating with our technical, marketing and sales teams.

Qualifications

• Background in horticulture, ideally ornamentals.
• Strong plant knowledge and growing systems understanding.
• Commercial mindset with willingness to develop sales skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building ability.
• Full UK driving licence.
• BASIS & FACTS desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined territory, working with growers and distributors.
• Provide technical advice on fertilisers, growing media, and crop inputs.
• Identify new business opportunities and support market growth.
• Support product trials and share results with customers and team.
• Monitor competitor activity and feed insights back to the business.
• Maintain CRM records and forecasts; collaborate with internal teams.

Skills

Horticulture knowledge

Sales experience

Excellent communication

Relationship building

Driving licence

Education

BASIS & FACTS desirable

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Horticulture Technical Area Sales Manager

Southwest England (Home‑Based with Travel)

£DOE + Car + Bonus + Package

Strong horticultural knowledge and ready to step into a commercial role?

Or already in sales and looking to join a market‑leading brand?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading business within professional horticulture, supplying market‑leading fertilisers, growing media, and biological products to the commercial sector.

Whether you're a commercial grower looking for something different or already in sales and enjoying building strong relationships and offering technical advice, this could be the move for you.

What’s on offer?

• Competitive salary DOE
• Company car
• Pension
• Private healthcare
• Bonus structure
• Structured training and support (including BASIS & FACTS if needed)
• The opportunity to join a respected, high‑performing technical sales team.

What’s the job?

You’ll manage a defined territory, working closely with growers and distributors to provide technical advice, grow sales, and strengthen relationships.

This is a technical sales role that combines growing and technical knowledge with commercial awareness.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Managing and developing relationships with growers and distributor accounts
• Providing technical advice on fertilisers, growing media, and crop inputs
• Identifying new business opportunities and supporting market growth
• Supporting product trials and sharing results with customers and the wider team
• Monitoring competitor activity and feeding insights back into the business.
• Maintaining accurate records and forecasts through CRM systems
• Working closely with internal technical, marketing and sales teams

You’ll spend the majority of your time out in the field, working directly with customers and building your presence across the region.

What do I need?

• A background in horticulture, ideally ornamentals. This could be from nursery production, a technical role, or a sales role in commercial horticulture.
• Strong plant knowledge and understanding of growing systems.
• A commercial mindset and willingness to develop your sales skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building ability.
• BASIS & FACTS desirable (or willingness to achieve them)
• Full UK driving licence.