Job Title
Specification Sales Manager – Architectural Aluminium
Responsibilities
* Field sales position selling our clients designed, extruded and distributed range of curtain walling, high performance windows & doors, window walling, architectural hardware, solar shading and natural ventilation applications, as well as passing rainscreen cladding projects to a dedicated field sales specification team
* Majority of your time influencing architects in order to win specifications for façade, window, and glazing applications
* Remainder of time managing relationships with 12‑15 key aluminium fabricators, checking availability for projects, etc.
* Targeting commercial projects, predominantly education/schools, but also healthcare, retail, office, and some high‑end residential
* Project sizes typically around £75,000 metal (aluminium) value but can vary from £2,000 – £500,000
* Inheriting a £12m project bank (largest area in the country); focus on new business development rather than converting existing projects
* Once established, may conduct a couple of CPD’s per month
* Chasing leads from Glenigan, fabricators, subcontractors, and project‑managing the specification through the tendering process to metal order and project completion
Qualifications
* Proven field sales track record within architectural specification sales, ideally within architectural aluminium systems
* May be open to other façade, curtain walling, window/ glazing system, or building envelope backgrounds
* Stable career history, no job hoppers
* Technical knowledge of products
* Team player
* Autonomous in nature
* One of two competitors on the CV acceptable; not industry journeyman
* Hungry, tenacious, with bags of energy / get up and go
Company
* Est. 55 years+
* One of the largest privately held aluminium system companies in Europe
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Construction
Location
Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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