Vacancy No 5350
Vacancy Title
Technical Sales Manager- Construction Products- Midlands & South Central
Vacancy Description
Are you interested in working for one of the UK’s fastest growing Distributors of construction products?
Due to continued success, our Client is looking to appoint a Technical Area Sales Manager to drive the growth of their business in the Central UK region.
The Company
With a 20-year history of focused commitment to the highest standards and on delivering a first-class service to their customers either with their own vehicles or through their network of strategically positioned depots UK wide, the company has gained its reputation as a leading distributor of construction and civil engineering products and continues to go from strength to strength.
Their ethos is that the best solutions are found by the best teams, which is why they continuously invest in their people to develop and improve their knowledge and expertise, allowing them to provide an unrivalled service and technical solutions to their customers, all underpinned by a culture of trust, integrity and teamwork.
They recruit people who have a genuine interest in their customers, are passionate about the future of construction, take pride in their work and enjoy finding solutions to customer’s challenges.
The Role
Reporting to: Sales Director
As Area Sales Manager, this newly created role demands a high level of self-motivation, a professional sales manner and the ability to both develop and maintain an existing customer base along with identifying and generating new business opportunities across the Central region.
Main duties involve:
* Proactively contact both current and prospective customers, building strong relationships with the aim of maximising sales and exceeding KPI’s and targets for the region
* Identify and track project opportunities across the Midlands and South Central regions
* Target contractors and specialist Sub-Contractors to develop sales opportunities, including Civils contractors, Tier 1 Contractors (Usual suspects, Balfours, Kiers, Morgans, HS2 etc) Brick contractors, steel contractors etc
* Introduce key initiative products
* Produce sales reports and identify key market trends, delivering these insights to the management team and colleagues across the wider business
* Provide timely and accurate estimates to customers for products and services
* Ensure the required margin is maintained
* Delivering excellent customer service and communication
The Candidate
In order to be successful in this role, you will need to enjoy working within a fast-paced sales environment where professionalism and a high levels of customer service are key to success.
You should have the ability to thrive in an autonomous role that requires self-motivation along with strong relationship-building and negotiation skills.
Experience in the construction industry is imperative along with a proven track-record in building and maintaining relationships with contractors across the Midlands and South Central regions.
Other skills required include:
* Knowledge of a range of construction materials (i.e. brickwork accessories, waterproofing, gas membranes and concrete repair products)
* A self-starter
* Ability to manage and organise your own diary
* Excellent communication skills and organisational skills
* Enthusiastic and professional manner
* Strong attention to detail
* Able to work using your own initiative within a demanding, target driven environment.
* A full, clean driving license
This role offers the successful Candidate excellent career progression opportunities along with continued training and professional development opportunities.
Location/Area Midlands and South Central
Salary
Negotiable dependent on experience + Sales incentive scheme
Benefits
25 days holiday, pension scheme, company car or car allowance, laptop, mobile phone, full support and continuous training