Area Sales Manager Contract Kitchens
Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Contract Kitchens
Job reference Number: 286121-4875-2563
Industry Sector: KBB, Contract Kitchens, Regional Housebuilders, National Housebuilders, Private Developers and Builders
Area to be covered: South with a focus on London & Home Counties
Remuneration: Up to £60,000 Neg. + £10,000 uncapped commission
Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid car or EV & Benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager – Kitchens will involve:
- Field sales role selling our clients manufactured range of contract kitchens
- Selling into regional housebuilders and housing developers/ national housebuilders such as Miller Homes, Muir Homes, Barratt Homes etc.
- 50% new business development role, will involve getting on the phone and visiting clients face to face
- 50% account management of circa 20-30 housebuilder customers
- Revenue target for 2026 circa £5m
- Projects from 25-500 plots (£60,000-£5m+)
- Typically 3-4 days a week on the road, remainder working from home or London showroom
- Ideally 2-3 meaningful customer visits a day when on the road
- Working through a housebuilder list as well as your own contacts
- Visiting show plots and marketing suites to identify the relevant decision makers
- Presenting pricing exercises, tending for real projects
- Attending 3 days of initial training in Europe
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Contract Kitchens with:
- 2 years+ proven contract kitchen field sales experience
- Must have sold into housebuilders/ housing developers
- New business hunter and account management capability
- Good on the phone
- Charismatic, very personable, professional and confident
- IT literate
- Organised, methodical, good journey planner
- Well presented
- Preferable on the up in career
The Company:
- 20 years+
- UK subsidiary of European manufacturer
- Circa £25m turnover
- 50+ Employees
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: housebuilders, private developers, contract kitchens, builders, taps, showers, accessories, brassware, sanitaryware, kitchens, bedrooms, vanity units, wardrobes, bathrooms, interiors, flooring, ceilings, wall coverings, partitions, tiles, flooring and all other associated KBB products