Overview
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
Responsibilities
* 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
Ideal applicant
* 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
The Company
* Established 40 years+
* Privately held, family-owned
* 15m turnover
* 100+ employees
Job Info
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
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