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When you join Ritchie Bros., you'll be part of a diverse, global team that's focused on delivering great customer experiences. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about making a difference, we invite you to join our growing team.

To further strengthen our position in United Kingdom, we are looking for a Territory Manager based in the South to join our team.

As Territory Manager you offer solutions to your prospects and customers for selling used equipment, trucks and other assets. Trusted advisory is key in your sales methodology. You use our data on demand, pricing and various markets to have an edge in your sales process. Together with the client you determine the best strategy for the liquidation of their assets, which can be through an auction, Marketplace-E or a listing. You will continuously work to improve your equipment expertise to strengthen your position as a market expert. On top of that you will build personal and professional relationships with your clients to secure future contracts.

You will be accountable for:

• Selling multi-channel solutions within the assigned territory
• Identify geographic areas and sectors that are areas of opportunity
• Grow sales with new business
• Develop a strategy and plan for securing potential customers
• Building, maintaining, and updating Playbook on a frequent basis
• Ensuring proper execution of sale through coordination with "Win Team" to fully service accounts including: sales support, operations, administrative, valuations and field marketing.

Proactivity and autonomy are in the core of what drives you as a professional. Combined with your interpersonal skills and your ability to build professional relationships this will be a major asset when you join Ritchie Bros. Furthermore, you have:

• Extensive experience in outside sales
• Extensive experience within the construction equipment industry
• Professional level English
• Advanced MS Office skills
• Proven consistent track record of meeting / exceeding sales targets

When you join Ritchie Bros. we want you to be on board for a long time. From the start we'll give you an indefinite employment agreement and plenty of professional and career development opportunities. Combined with fair pay and good secondary benefits the results reflect in our lengths of service and performance. The current average within our UK sales team is 5.9 years including to new hires that have started this year! The UK team is one of our best teams in turning potential into talent and we are very proud of that!

Ritchie Bros. has grown from a small-town auctioneer to a global asset management and disposition company. We help our customers buy and sell a wide range of used and unused equipment for construction, mining, transportation, agriculture, oil & gas, lifting & material handling, forestry & other industries.