Area Sales Manager – LVT, Carpet & Wood Flooring
Job Title: Area Sales Manager – LVT, Carpet and Wood Flooring
Job reference Number: 818087-2203-2658
Industry Sector: Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Buying Group Members, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring, Tufted Carpet
Areas to be covered: South West & South Wales
Remuneration: £37,000-£40,000 basic £50,000 uncapped OTE
Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager – LVT, Carpet and Wood Flooring will involve:
- Field sales position selling a mid to high end manufactured range of carpet, high quality range of LVT and engineered wood flooring
- Selling into independent flooring retailers and buying group members
- Responsible for circa 250 retail and buying group customers on patch
- £2m revenue responsibility
- Tasked with growing an area, high growth in LVT and engineered wood in particular
- 90% account management, 10% new business development position
- Account sizes will vary from £5,000 per annum up to £70,000 per annum
- 6 calls per day (1-2 days per month working from home/ admin)
- Supporting retail showrooms with merchandising
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – LVT, Carpet and Wood Flooring with:
- Must have proven field sales experience with LVT luxury vinyl tile, carpet or wood flooring
- Must have sold into flooring retail showrooms or buying group members
- Must be comfortable selling POS (point of sale) displays
- Would consider flooring/ carpet retail showroom experience if can demonstrate strong determination and desire for a field sales role
- Comfortable with occasional overnight stays when required
- Self motivated/ enthusiastic
- Commercially aware
- Ideally worked for a flooring manufacturer
The Company:
- Part of a larger group
- Circa 50 UK employees
- £50m UK turnover
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: Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Buying Group Members, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring and Tufted Carpet