Sales Manager - Industrial Chemicals

SRG; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading chemical distributor in Cheshire is seeking an experienced Chemicals Sales Manager to enhance their career. This hybrid role involves extensive travel across the UK, focusing on business development and account management within the industrial chemicals market. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Chemistry and a proven track record in technical sales. Benefits include a company car, a performance-based bonus, and a comprehensive training budget.

Benefits

Company car for personal and business use

10-15% performance-based bonus

Impressive training budget for external training courses

Qualifications

• Direct experience in consultative and technical sales of chemical raw materials.
• Experience with delivering technical presentations on chemical raw materials.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, contacting and developing new business using various methods.
• Promoting the company’s range of innovative raw materials.
• Travelling approximately 1/3 of your time across the UK to visit customer sites.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Proactive Approach

Education

Degree in Chemistry

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Full Job Description

Experienced Chemicals Sales Manager looking to further developtheir career required for a growing, well-established chemicaldistributor in Cheshire.

Location: Hybrid, 1 day a week inCheshire office

Term: Permanent

SRG ispartnering with a leading chemical supplier and distributor inCheshire, who offer a wide range of innovative raw materials tomanufacturers and brands in the UK industrial chemicals market(encompassing HI&I, lubricants and water treatment amongst others).With world-class R&D and manufacturing facilities in Europe andglobally, they have a well-known reputation for success in the market.Adopting a value-based sales approach, you will travel extensivelyacross the UK, regularly meeting customers to continually build,develop and grow customer relationships across industrial chemicalmanufacturers.

With several existing buyingaccounts, the role will be approximately 50/50 businessdevelopment-account management.

Benefits:Company car (for personal and business use), 10-15% bonus (purelybased on individual performance) + impressive training budget forexternal training courses.

Role /Description

• Identifying, contacting anddeveloping new business using a variety of methods
• Promotingthe company’s range of innovative raw materials
• Growingmarket presence across the UK industrial chemicals market
• Growing existing customer relationships to ensure customersatisfaction and ultimately look to increase account spend
• Travelling approximately 1/3 of your time across the UK tovisit customer sites
• Generating leads to identify newpotential UK industrial chemical customers
• Maintaining andupdating the database to build a global customer pool
• Keepingabreast of product development & trends in the chemicals industry.

Requirements

• Direct experience in consultative and technical sales ofchemical raw materials to either HI&I, lubricants, water treatment orother related sectors
• Degree-level qualified (or equivalent)in Chemistry or a closely related subject
• Experience withdelivering technical presentations on chemical raw materials
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willing, and excited, to travel 1/3 of your time across thewhole of the UK
• Full, clean UK driving licence
• Aproactive approach and drive to deliver exceptional customer service.

Keywords: Business Development Manager,Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Business Development, ChemicalSales, Technical Sales, Water Treatment, HI&I, Lubricants, RawMaterials, Active Ingredients, Surfactants, Biocides, Inhibitors,Chemical Derivatives, Speciality Chemicals.