Area Sales Executive – Bathroom Furniture
Job Title: Trade Sales Executive – Bathroom Furniture
Industry Sector: KBB, Bathrooms, Bathroom Furniture, Showers, Bathroom Cabinets, Mirrors, Plumbing Products, Plumbers Merchants, Plumbing Installers, Enclosures, Sanitaryware, Showertrays, Bathroom Lighting, Brassware, Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Retailers, Showrooms, Bathroom Showrooms, Independent Merchants and Trade Counters
Area to be covered: South London and South Coast (Reading, Southampton across to Kent)
Remuneration: Up to £35,000 + up to 30% Bonus
Benefits: Fully expensed Car, 8-13% pension and benefits package
The role of the Area Sales Executive – Bathroom Furniture will involve:
- Field sales role, selling a manufactured range of bathroom furniture
- Account development role, your focus will be to grow low spending accounts on the patch
- 95% of your time will be spent with plumbers merchants, 5% plumbing installers (trade mornings to drive messages/ promotions)
- Area forecast to achieve circa £2m this year, you will be tasked with adding £500,000 of new business development
- Calling on customers that turnover £12,000+ approx. 35 of these, £6,000+ approx.37 of these and £3,000+ accounts, approx. 70 of these on a 12 week call plan
- There are an additional 300+ accounts that turnover £2,000+, which will be called on or scoped as and when there is availability to do so
- 8 customer visits per day, typically 6 plumbers merchants and 2 installers or scoping calls with the lowest spending accounts
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Executive – Bathroom Furniture with:
- Plumbers merchant sales experience, ideally with a trade counter
- Ideally suited to someone looking for their first field sales role
- Open to showroom sales experience
- Bathroom furniture product knowledge is not essential as full product training will be provided
- Excellent relationship builder with ability to do new business
- Independent and comfortable with field sales/ territory management
- Self-motivated, organised, driven and customer service orientated