Area Sales Manager
  • England,South East,West Sussex,Horsham
  • full-time
  • £45,000 - £50,000 per annum
Job Description:
The Role: Area Sales Manager (South East and London)
The Hours: Monday - Friday 08:30 - 17:30
Location: Ashington (Must be able to drive due to the client’s location)
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 plus comms OTE £70,000 uncapped
My client is looking for a dynamic and innovative candidate to join our rapidly growing company.
A field-based sales role with responsibility for identifying new hire and sales opportunities to generate revenue and help the business grow through pro-active business development and account management of existing, new and lapsed customers. The candidate must have worked or is working withing the construction industry.
Job role
* Responsible for the combined sales and hire target for the South East and London of just under £8 million.
* Plan and organise daily/weekly/monthly work schedule, ensuring full coverage of the area via:
o Face-to-face visits to existing customers and prospects
o Phone calls.
* Foster and develop relationships with lapsed and existing customers maximising revenue.
* Identify and close new business opportunities.
* Provide a high level of service to customers through understanding their requirements, responding to requests, progressing orders and providing advice.
* Work closely with the Internal Sales Executives for the South and London to develop a strategy for each region and areas of responsibilities.
* Deal with pricing enquiries, preparing and sending out quotes & following up in a timely manner, co-ordinating with Internal Sales Executives
* Take full ownership of your own sales performance to meet/exceed agreed targets and KPI’s.
* Promote attachment repairs / parts service to customers and prospects & consult with Parts & Service Manager accordingly.
* Represent the company at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations.
* Attend monthly sales meetings.
* Establish, develop, and maintain positive relationships within all areas of the business.
* Keep up to date with industry developments, maintaining awareness of competitor activity and market trends and feedback to Head Office
* Deal promptly and professionally with customers to address any problems or issues as that arise and feedback to Sales Team Manager
Candidate requirements:
* Strong sales background - construction industry knowledge desirable but not essential - or a willingness to learn the industry.
* Customer focussed with excellent customer service skills.
* Excellent selling, communication and negotiation skills
* Initiative-taking and target driven with ability to manage pipelines.
* A confident and tenacious approach
* Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection.
* Professional, flexible, personable, and committed
* Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
* IT Literate / Familiarity with CRM practices
Benefits
* Pension scheme
* Company car
* Laptop
* Mobile phone.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Job number 1577176
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Rubix Recruitment Ltd
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