Technical Sales Manager

The Keystone Group; Crawley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Pension

Life Assurance

Healthcare Cashback Plan

Enhanced Family Friendly policies

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Discount Scheme

Employee Recognition awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Keystone Lintels, part of Keystone Group, is seeking a Technical Sales Manager to cover the South East. You will develop new business, grow relationships with housebuilders and contractors, and hit sales targets while delivering the group’s growth strategy.

The role requires a customer-first approach, strong communication, and a proactive drive to win new opportunities. You’ll need industry experience, CRM proficiency, a full UK driving licence, and flexibility to travel to client sites and

Qualifications

• Customer-first approach with strong commercial awareness and excellent communication.
• Excellent customer service and relationship management with ability to build trust.
• Strong commercial awareness to identify and convert new opportunities.
• Ability to understand technical products and respond to queries.
• Self-motivated, positive and resilient with a target-driven mindset.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Introduce Keystone Group products and build relationships with house builders.
• Meet customer sales targets and budgets.
• Identify opportunities and negotiate terms.
• Maintain and grow relationships with key customers.
• Raise awareness of Keystone Group among house builders.

Skills

CRM systems

Customer focus

Negotiation

Communication

Driving licence

MS Office

CRM software

Tools

CRM software

MS Office

Job description

About the Role

At Keystone Lintels, we’re looking for an ambitious and commercially focused Technical Sales Manager to join our House-Builder team to cover the South East area.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing new business, growing existing customer relationships and achieving sales targets across our key housebuilder and Contractor customer base. You’ll play a key role in strengthening Keystone Lintels’ market position and delivering our wider sales growth strategy.

What you’ll be doing

• Introduce Keystone Group products and develop working relationships with both existing and new customers within the house building industry.
• Agree and ensure that customer sales targets, national account targets and budgets are achieved or exceeded.
• Identify actual and prospective business opportunities; negotiate trading terms within the agreed parameters.
• Maintain, develop and improve relationships with our key customers.
• Develop awareness of the Keystone Group amongst house builders.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Success in this role comes from combining a customer-first approach with strong commercial awareness, excellent communication skills and a genuine drive to achieve results.
• You will also demonstrate:
• Excellent customer service and relationship management skills, with the ability to build trust and develop long-term relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Strong commercial awareness and the confidence to identify, develop and convert new business opportunities.
• Ability to gain an understanding of technical products and confidently respond to customer queries relating to them.
• A self-motivated, positive and resilient approach, with the determination to achieve and exceed targets.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

What we’re looking for

• Previous experience within the construction industry is desirable, particularly experience working with national and regional housebuilders and Contractors.
• Experience using CRM systems.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• A full, clean UK driving licence is essential, as the role involves regular travel to customer offices and sites.
• Flexibility to attend customer meetings, events and other business activities at weekends and outside of normal working hours when required.

What We Offer

• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• A supportive, values-driven and inclusive working environment
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• 33 days annual leave, increasing with service
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Healthcare Cashback Plan
• Enhanced Family Friendly policies
• Additional employee benefits including, access to our Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Discount Scheme, Employee Recognition awards, Employee Assistance Programme.

A Bit About Us

For more than three decades, the Keystone Group has grown to become one of the UK and Ireland’s largest family-owned construction product manufacturers. Driven by a relentless focus on innovation and customer excellence, the Group employs over 2,000 employees across 28 sites, supplying cutting-edge building solutions to growing markets in the UK & Ireland, Europe, Australia and North America. Its portfolio includes market-leading brands in the steel, light & environmental and timber sectors.

Keystone Lintels is part of Keystone Group and is proud to lead the way in steel lintel design, production and service. Keystone Lintels has dedicated technical teams that provide customers with solutions for their complex project needs.Production facilities in Derbyshire, England and Cookstown, Northern Ireland enable Keystone Lintels to provide a fast and efficient service to its extensive network of merchant partners across the UK and Ireland.