Area Sales Manager

An exciting opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join a market leading manufacturer who offers both financial rewards and career prospects.

**BASIC SALARY**: £39,000 - £41,000

**BENEFITS**:

- OTE £41,000 - £44,000
- Company car
- Pension
- Laptop & Mobile
- 20 Days Holiday plus Stats

Established in 1986, We are market leaders in the manufacture and supply of quality flooring profiles and trims. Our profiles are supplied and installed in residential and commercial projects around the world including Palaces, Theatres, Hotels, Retail stores,Football stadiums and many more public buildings.
**Overview**

To maintain current growth, we wish to recruit an Area Sales Manager to develop sales to the flooring trade throughout South London & the South-East. This area is well established and performing well.

This role offers significant opportunity for an ambitious, experienced sale professional to develop their career with a market-leading manufacturer.

**Area**: South-East, South London

**Requirements**:
We wish to recruit an ambitious individual with direct experience of selling products into the construction market via Flooring Contractors, Shopfitters, Joinery, Stone & Ceramic contractors as well as Architects, Specifiers.
Site measures may be required (full training will be given).

You will be able to demonstrate, with the correct training, you are able to be:

- Work with flooring contractors, carpet retailers, main contractors, architect and specifiers to ensure that business is won at specification stage or our products are offered “equally approved” by flooring contractors / Main Contractors.
- Develop business in growth areas with stone, ceramic and joinery companies
- Gain business by breaking specification when it is detailed as “equal or approved”
- A competent presenter, able to present the company’s image professionally at all levels, from architectural practices through to “down to earth” contractors.
- The person that all specifiers and contractors within you area turn to for advice when they have a problem - because they believe you are the technical expert

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles, sold to the following markets and sold the following types of products:

- Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Technical Sales Executive, Business Development Manager
- Flooring Contractors, Construction, Specialist Contractors or Distributors. Specialist Merchants.
- Flooring, Flooring profiles, Carpets. Bonding Adhesives. Adhesives.

Either way, you will be established within the construction industry and be able to hit the ground running.

We want someone who is driven to succeed, not afraid to develop new markets or technologies with the wherewithal to recognise opportunities and develop them.

**Why join this Company?**
- The opportunity to join a market leading manufacturer
- This position will be challenging but also tremendously rewarding. Coaching, mentoring and training are an integral part of the company’s culture
- A first-class remuneration package including a highly competitive salary, bonus, pension, and other benefits

**Key Tasks**:

- Develop profitable sales through providing viable solutions to a variety of specifier requirements
- To be thoroughly conversant with the needs of contractors, specifiers and trade and their urgency of requiring information; provide technical, product and project advice.
- Identify potential new contractors, qualify the opportunity they present and develop them into day-to-day buying customers.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles, sold to the following markets and soldthe following types of products: Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Technical Sales Executive, Business Development Manager - Flooring Contractors, Construction, Building, Specialist Contractors or Distributors, Specialist Merchants, Installers : Flooring,Flooring Profiles, Carpets, Bonding Adhesives, Chemical Admixtures, Fixings

**REF**: IP16467, Wallace Hind Selection