Specification Sales Manager – Flooring & Interior Products
Job Title: Specification Sales Manager – Flooring & Interior Products
Job reference Number: 770027-1141-2658
Industry Sector: Carpet, Carpet Tile, Flooring, Interiors, A&D, Architects and Interior Designers, Specifiers, Flooring Contractors, Fit-Out Contractors, Education, Building Surveyors, Letting Agents, Estate Management and Local Authorities
Area to be covered: South Central – (postcodes – GU, KT, PO, RG, SL, SM, SO, SW, TW, UB & W)
Remuneration: £50,000-£55,000 Neg. + up to £12,000 Commission and Up to £10,000 Bonus
Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits
The role of the Specification Sales Manager Flooring & Interior Products will involve:
- Field sales role selling a full range of manufactured floor coverings / carpet tiles
- Promoting multi-loop and low level loop carpet tiles as well as some ranges of FRS (full repeatable scroll)
- Selling into architects and interior designers (A&D), but also: fit-out contractors, property developers, universities, colleges, end users, building surveyors, letting agents, estate management, local authorities and main contractors
- Role will develop over time which will involve spending more time with the A&D specifiers and les with the transactional flooring contractors
- Working alongside another trade field sales professional responsible for account managing direct flooring contractor accounts on the area
- Inheriting an area with a turnover of approx. £1.2m (historically has achieved budge over last three years)
- New business position, although there will be a healthy project bank to inherit
- Targeting commercial buildings such as office blocks as well as the education sector: schools, universities & colleges and a small amount of healthcare
- Utilising ABI leads and in-house CRM database
- Project sizes from 500m2, typically £10,000 upwards project value
The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager Flooring & Interior Products with:
- Must have a proven track record of selling into the architects or interior designers (A&D) specification marketplace
- Ideally from the flooring/ carpet industry
- Open to interior products such as: wall coverings, fabric, ceiling, partitioning or furniture
- Contacts within fit-out contractors, universities, colleges, end users, building surveyors, letting agents, estate management and local authorities are not essential
- Tactile sales background rather that technical, sold something aesthetically pleasing, ideally flooring related
- Team player
- Energy, passion and Enthusiasm
- Strong commercial and presentation skills
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: Carpet, Carpet Tile, Flooring, Interiors, A&D, Architects and Interior Designers, Specifiers, Flooring Contractors, Fit-Out Contractors, Education, Building Surveyors, Letting Agents, Estate Management and Local Authorities