Area Sales Manager – Panels – South of England – SD11870

Area Sales Manager – Panels – South of England – SD11870

Are you an Area Sales Manager looking for you next role?

Do you have experience in selling to Trade customers, distributors, wholesalers, and retail?

We’re currently recruiting for a company who have construction industry solutions with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. They are a fast-growing, profitable and bustling group that is active internationally. Innovation is their driving force.

They are looking for an Area Sales Manager to cover the South of England (Birmingham to the South Coast). In exchange for your expertise, creativity and dynamism, they’ll offer an attractive salary supplemented with fringe benefits, career opportunities, challenges abroad and a wide range of training opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• As Area Sales Manager you execute the commercial strategy for enhancing the regional market share and the positioning of the assigned product segments. 
• You organize regular visits to customers and prospects within your region. You provide them with the necessary guidance, support and training for their local salespeople. You build up strong professional relationships.
• You continuously look for partners, give them a clear and attractive presentation of our high quality products and novelties, mainly focussing on added-value products.
• You closely cooperate with our internal sales-, planning- and calculation team. 
• You follow-up on market trends and competitors within the Trade Segment. 
• You participate in exhibiting and visiting fairs to increase brand awareness in the market. 
• You map-out market evolutions, actions and market position of the competition through your direct customer contacts and network.
• You work from home in combination with travel days to clients (up to 50% of your time). 

Key Skills:

• You are based in the UK, the market you cover goes from London to Birmingham.
• You have a higher education level or equivalent through relevant experience.
• You have at least 3-5 years of experience in B2B sales, ideally within the building materials industry.
• You are an entrepreneur who loves to build new collaborations and who knows where to detect the right opportunities.
• You are customer oriented and you have strong negotiation, influencing and communication skills. 
• You are flexible, independent and keen to travel/be on the road (up to 50% of your time). You are willing to travel to Belgium (HQ) in your onboarding period and once a year for the international sales meeting.
• You are a fluent communicator with excellent commercial and analytical skills. #

Package:

• Negotiable for the right person with the right experience up to £60K
• 10% bonus
• Company Car
• Private Medical
• 5% matched pension
• 32 days holidays (including BH)

If this is of any interest to you then please get in touch with Jo to find out more.

Call 01257 483 940 or email jo@sharplesdavies.co.uk