Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products
Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products
Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber
Area to be covered: South East, Anglia and Southern part of East Midlands
Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000
Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package
The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve:
* Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of timber products
* Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
* Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
* Dealing with order values from £12k - £250k
* Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts
* Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin
* Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts
* Responsible for 100,000m³ cubic meters of materials
* Due to the size of the territory, there will be some away night covering the territory as well as site and customer visits
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products with:
* Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
* Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, more importantly dealing with the buying groups and buying group members
* Dealing with order values up to £250k
* Interpersonal skills
* Autonomous
* Great relationship builder/account development skills
The Company:
* Est. 20 years+
* Circa £10m turnover
* 50+ employees
* Privately held
Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber
Job Info
Job Title:
Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products
Company:
Mitchell Maguire
Location:
Watford, Hertfordshire
Posted:
Closes:
Jan 11th 2026
Sector:
Contract:
Permanent
Hours:
Full Time
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