Area Sales Manager – Timber and Joinery
Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Timber and Joinery
Job reference Number: 933941-8543-24299
Industry Sector: Timber, Joinery, Stairs, Doors, Floors, UK Residential House Building and Construction; Regional House Builders
Area to be covered: South West and South Wales
Remuneration: £45,000 neg. + £5,000-£10,000 Bonus
Benefits: Car allowance or hybrid car and corporate benefits package
The role of the House Builder Area Sales Manager for Timber and Joinery will involve:
- Field sales role selling a manufactured range of timber for staircases, floors and doors
- Selling into regional housebuilders, circa 20-40 initial relationships to inherit with regional housebuilders
- Dealing with MD’s down to site contractors
- You will inherit an area going through diversification and expansion but with a modest initial turnover of £500,000
- Tasked with growing the area to £1m (huge scope to become a £3m-£4m turnover area in a few years
- 50% new business development, 50% utilizing relationships with regional builders via parent national builders merchant
- 70% on the road visiting construction sites to discuss projects/ engaging with sub contractors etc., 30% working from home/ admin/ engaging national builders merchants’ sales team
- Working within a field sales team of two in the south covering the regional house builders, main/ historical field sales team for our client focuses on the national housebuilders
- Working on projects up to 350 plots
- You will be required to increase the customer base and hit turnover and margin targets in line with company strategy
The ideal applicant will be a House Builder Area Sales Manager for Timber and Joinery with:
- Must have sold to regional housebuilders
- Ideally sold timber or joinery associated products, however our client is open to most building products
- Fire in the belly
- Dynamic personality
- Ideally some structured sales training
- Proven track record of field sales success within the construction industry
- Business and computer acumen
- 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: House Builders, Housebuilders, Internal Doors & Door-Sets, Door-Kits, Timber Stairs, External Doors & Sets, Patio Doors, Windows and Door Frames, Panel, Timber Staircases, and other Timber / Joinery / Joist and carpentry associated products