National Sales Manager – Hyundai - Waste & Recycling
🌍 Can be based anywhere South of Birmingham
⏰ 45 hours a week- 08:30-18:00 (30 mins unpaid break)
£ Competitive salary with - uncapped commission structure
🚛 Your Role: Role Level on the Rygor Career Journey Map: C3, Specialist
If you are looking to be part of an award-winning company, offering you a great career, then look no further.
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced area sales manager to take the lead on our Hyundai construction equipment waste & recycling equipment. Your specialism will lie with our Loading Shovel & Material Handler product range, whilst complimented by our core excavator offering. This is a field-based role for a motivated individual with a proven track record in HGV’s, plant, construction, heavy equipment sales, or any complimentary products sold to the waste & recycling industry, such as construction attachments, shredders, refuse bodies, skip / hook bodies etc.
You will take charge in delivering the business strategy to grow our presence with these customers on both a regional & national level with these specialist products, whilst being supported by our in house finance and product handover teams. With a passion not only for exceeding your sales targets, but also for working with people and building brilliant relationships, you will constantly grow our client base whilst ensuring outstanding account management at all times. Our parent company Rygor Group has the advantage of being close to customers within these industries from our HGV customer base, your job will not only be to leverage these existing relationships to expand our product offering to our plant machinery range, but also to generate new customer relationships.
Ideally you will have an established customer base that you could being to engage with from day 1.
You will work within Rygor Group’s key result areas; Business Performance, Customer Focus and Leadership, whilst always upholding the company’s values of being Rewarding, Reliable and Respectful.
Day to day, you will:
* Contribute to the sales growth of the division by generating sales leads as a result of effective networking, referrals and prospecting.
* Successfully identify, penetrate and close business opportunities to an effective conclusion, whilst identifying and securing additional sales opportunities such as parts and service.
* Prepare and follow-up with quotations, ensuring timely customer payments.
* Monitor orders closely, rapidly escalating any lost order issues to minimise any financial loss.
* Consistently achieve sales and profitability targets.
* Maintain an excellent relationship with suppliers ensuring the correct specifications for an order are delivered to the customer.
* Work in harmony with the sales admin team and other departments to maximise productivity and reduce costs.
* Work and communicate effectively with aftersales to ensure a smooth, seamless handover of products to customers.
* Actively develop a network of customer relationships with both new and existing clients.
* Maintain an accurate Rygor Plant CRM database of all customer contact details.
* Take ownership of customer concerns, understanding that whilst things may go wrong occasionally, how we promptly and consistently communicate and find solutions for a successful conclusion is what really sets us apart.
* Identify opportunities to supervise product demonstrations at selected customer sites to facilitate the closing of new business deals.
Skills and Behaviours
* Motivated: target-driven – you want to be the best and achieve and you ensure success through a proactive approach to sales. In a field-based sales role, being able to be continually motivated, results driven and successful takes focus and self-discipline, with the ability to work independently in an organised manner.
* Customer-focused mindset: always aiming to exceed expectations – every email, phone call and text is always responded to, and you keep your customers up to date. It’s all about communication.
* You are an influencer: your professionalism, knowledge and credibility mean customers know they can rely on you, and it means you can close the deal.
* Flexible approach to work – we’re there to support our customers.
Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. As long as you are experienced for the role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t feel like you meet all our requirements. We want to know about your passions, achievements, learning and growth. If this role excites you, start a conversation with us!
🥳 Benefits for you
* An extra day off for your Birthday
* 23 days of annual leave per year PLUS Bank Holidays
* Four times death in service benefit.
* Internal Mentorship programme
* Working for WhatVan?’s ‘Van Dealer of the Year 2026’.
* Working for Motor Trader’s ‘Employer of the Year’.
* Working for an official Great Place to Work™️
* Working for a workplace which champions women.
* Awarded Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award (RLS)
* Working with our award-winning team – several of our team were recogniosed at the MT WIMT awards and we won silver at the internal communication and engagement awards for our new starter onboarding process.
* Auto-enrolment pension.
* Self-development journal
* Rygor Group Ranked 101 in SW Business Insider’s Top 500 Companies
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies and return to work post mat-leave policy.
* Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
* Mental Health First Aiders.
* Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards and opportunities to attend the Rygor Wembley box as a celebration of your hard work and dedication.
* Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
* Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training.
* Long service recognition and annual leave increase after 5 years’ service.
* Rygor Auto and Rygor Service Solutions are Maintenance Provision Rating Scheme (MPRS) accredited
* Branded uniform
* Charities of the Year programme, Army Sport sponsors and community engagement initiatives
💙 Our Values & Behaviours
We’re looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.
Rewarding
I am grateful. I am courageous. I am curious.
Reliable
I am honest. I am attentive. I am trustworthy.
Respectful
I am inclusive. I am resilient. I am kind.
🚛 About Rygor Group
We are an award-winning, multi-franchise Dealer Group with branches across England, offering extensive coverage for customers throughout the M5, M4 and M42 corridors. Our business has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with significant investment in site renovations nationwide and exciting expansions, including the launch of a brand-new Mercedes-Benz Passenger Car Aftersales facility in 2024.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us multiple industry and network awards, and in 2025, we were proud to be named Employer of the Year at the prestigious Motor Trader Awards. We also received the Silver award for our onboarding experience at the ICE awards, meaning that if you're considering a new career with Rygor, you can be confident you'll receive an award-winning induction and support from day one.
We’re officially a Great Place to Work™ (multiple years running) and our company culture truly reflects our core values: Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful. Exceptional customer service is at the heart of what we do and so is creating an environment where our team can thrive.
Rygor Group comprises of a diverse collection of UK automotive businesses, with a primary focus on trucks, vans, coaches, passenger cars, armoured vehicles, body repairs and coachbuilding. Through the hard work of our team members, we have secured our position as one of the UK’s top automotive Groups, with a turnover of circa £300m a year.
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