Are you interested in working for one of the UK’s largest suppliers of construction products?
If so, this exciting Area Sales Manager’s position might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
The Company
With their mission to build a sustainable future for the construction industry and their focus on delivering a first-class service to their customers, the company has established themselves as one of the UK’s leading construction product distribution business and continues to go from strength to strength in the specialist markets it serves.
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 skills and expertise and help them achieve their professional goals.
They recruit people who have a genuine interest in their customers, take pride in their work and enjoy finding solutions to customer’s challenges.
They are now looking to appoint an Area Sales Manager to join their successful London team.
The Role
The successful candidate will be responsible for generating and developing sales opportunities with main contractors, specialist subcontractors, and builders’ merchants throughout North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire. The role will focus on both new-build and refurbishment projects across a broad range of construction sectors.
Reporting directly to the Regional Sales Manager, the position will involve building and maintaining a strong customer base while driving profitable sales growth and securing project opportunities for the company’s East London, West London, and Maidstone branches. The role requires a commercially minded and proactive individual who is confident engaging with key decision-makers, developing long-term relationships, and converting opportunities into measurable business growth.
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.
As you will be taking an active role as a member of the sales team, you will need to have a flair for sales and enjoy working to targets and meeting sales goals.
Experience in the construction industry either in merchanting or distribution is advantageous along with the ability to work autonomously as well as working as part of a team.
Other skills required include:
* Business and commercially astute
* Results driven, proactive and forwarding thinking
* Excellent negotiation skills and with confidence to upsell/cross sell
* Resilient and self-driven
* Customer focused
* Excellent communication and organisational skills, and detail conscious
* Strong stakeholder collaboration – a team player and building effective relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders
* Experience with using CRM platforms
* Proficient across all Microsoft Office packages
This role offers the successful Candidate excellent career progression opportunities along with continued training and professional development opportunities.
Location/Area North London and Northern Home Counties
Salary Competitive Salary package + High OTE
Benefits 25 days holiday, pension scheme, company car, contributory travel and health scheme, full support and continuous training