Sales Executive

**Sales Executive - International Timber - North East of England**

At Saint-Gobain people matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, our aim is to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills, and develop your career.

International Timber has built up a sector-focused business, structured around the needs of our customers. Our sales team focuses on delivering a consultative approach, ensuring that we deliver the right timber for your project or customer's needs. We offera vast array of species and finished products, supported by a comprehensive portfolio of specialist services

**Did you know we have been awarded top UK & Global Employer 6 Years Running?**

The Sales Executive will be an effective member of the sales team to achieve the overall sales targets and support the team. The Sales Executive will be responsible for an area covering the North East of England and be part of a team of 5 Sales Executivescovering the whole of the UK reporting into the Regional Sales Director

**Key Responsibilities**
- Achieve sales and margin targets for product and/or sector
- Set out plan to visit to customers and report monthly on activity
- Delivery of agreed actions to achieve strategy
- Growth of customer base
- Support the achievement of the sales and margin targets
- Accurate and timely completion of customer requests
- Maintaining accurate and current information in the brand's CRM system
- Support manager to achieve team objectives, such as sales campaigns

We are seeking an accomplished Sales Executive ideally with a stable career within a similar timber specialist with the ability to network, build relationships with internal team and customers. This is a flagship area for the business with huge potentialin terms of customer growth / spend and the chances for career progression and development are huge

**What will you bring to the role?**
- Able to demonstrate excellent relationship management and networking skills
- Self-motivated and results driven with the ability to manage customers to deliver results
- Able to develop product sales and margin by coordination with category managers and product manufacturers.
- Previous product sales experience within the business sector,
- Ability to prepare and present product and/or sector update to senior sales team.
- Able to work under pressure and manage multiple simultaneous priorities
- Ability to identify and implement performance goals, priorities, recommend measures
- Commercial understanding of market and competitor activity

'Making the world a better home' - Saint-Gobain's purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenged faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable placeto live and have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

**Flexible packages designed for you**

We know employees value different things more than others. As well as a great range of standard benefits we understand circumstances in life also change so flexibility through these changes is important. We give employees the ability to change and altertheir package to match their needs. This flexibility is self-administered through our on-line employee hub called bubble (Winner UK & Ireland 'Best Flexible Benefits Plan' award at the Employee Benefits Awards 2020)

Explore the Saint-Gobain website to discover more about the way in which we design packages that are flexible our colleagues and include: owning Company shares, to staff discounts and support helplines.

**An evolving world / The future of tomorrow**

Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland is home to some of the best known and respected companies in the construction sector including Jewson, British Gypsum, Minster, Celotex, and Kaimann. We manufacture and distribute materials and solutions, which are key ingredientsin the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all.

We are an equal opportunities employer, we embrace diversity and are on a mission to make our organisation inclusive and accessible to all, we believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make betterdecisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

We want to be a business that you'll be proud to work for; one that is committed to improving people's daily life, being responsible, doing the right thing, and to preserving the environment by embedding sustainability in all our businesses.