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Key Account Manager - Outdoor Playground Equipment
Job summary
A specialist recruitment consultancy is seeking a Key Account Manager to sell outdoor playground equipment. The role involves managing existing key accounts and developing new business, primarily within the housebuilding and architecture sectors. Applicants should have a proven sales record, be organized, and ideally hold some sales training. This position offers a base salary of £42,000 plus commission and requires the candidate to be located within 30 minutes of Southampton or Winchester.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Proven track record of key account management and business development.
- Comfortable with sales cycles up to 18 months.
- Ideally some formal sales training.
Responsibilities
- Field based position, selling the design, manufacture and install of outdoor playground equipment.
- 50% key account management and 50% new business development.
- Conducting customer site surveys and calls.
Skills
Key Account Manager – Outdoor Playground Equipment
Job Title: Key Account Manager – Outdoor Playground Equipment
Industry Sector: Housebuilders, Housing Developers, Architects, Outdoor Play, Playground Equipment
Area to be covered: South
Based: Within 30 minutes of Southampton/ Winchester
Remuneration: £42,000 + £12,000-£20,000 Uncapped Commission
Benefits: Fully expensed Audi car or £450 car allowance & full benefits
- Field based position, selling the design, manufacture and install of outdoor playground equipment
- Selling into housebuilders, housing developers and architects
- 50% key account management
- 50% new business development
- Significant project bank to inherit
- Area only vacancy due to an upcoming retirement
- Calling on customer’s sites, conducting surveys etc.
- Typically 2 days a week on the road, 3 days working from home
- Inheriting a warm area that has already smashed its annual target
- Average project size of circa £30,000
- Circa £1.5m revenue target
- Lots of sales support including field site visits with the Head of Sales
- Appoints set for you by internal co-ordinators
- Experience working within the outdoor playground equipment sector is not essential
- Proven track record of key account management and business development
- Open on product background
- Previous experience selling into housebuilders, housing developers and architects may be useful but not essential
- Must live within 30 minutes of either Southampton or Winchester
- Comfortable with sales cycles up to 18 months
- Driven and organised
- Ability to grow accounts
- Not job hoppers/ journey men
- Ideally some formal sales training
- Computer literate
- Established 40 years+
- Privately held, family-owned
- 15m turnover
- 100+ employees
Location: Southampton, Hampshire
Posted: Sep 29th 2025
Closes: Oct 30th 2025
Sector: Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
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, Housing Developers, Architects, Outdoor Play, Playground Equipment
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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