Area Sales Manager

Are you a professional Area Sales Manager or Business Development Manager looking to unlock your career potential? You'll sell our growing range of high-quality door and window hardware solutions to new and existing joinery, fenestration and construction customers across the South East. The prospects are excellent; a perfect opportunity to build a career with a market leader
 
BASIC SALARY: up to £50,000 per annum
 
BENEFITS:
· OTE: £60,000
· Company Profit Share
· Company Car/Car Allowance
· Mobile Phone
· Social Events
 
LOCATION: Home based, you will ideally be living in the South East of the UK
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Brighton & Hove, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Portsmouth, Maidstone, Basingstoke, Wycombe, Wokingham, Canterbury, Reading, Oxford, Windsor, Slough, Guildford, Croydon, Beaconsfield
 
JOB DESCRIPTION: Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager - Joinery, Fenestration, Construction
 
As our Business Development Manager, Area Sales Manager you'll be home-based, covering the whole of the South East. Order values are varied and are likely to range from £1,000 to the £10,000's. You will have access to approximately 1000 active accounts, and you'll enjoy the support of our back-office team who will cover you with producing quotes, marketing support and more.  
 
Your main responsibilities will be:
· 60% account management and up-sell, 40% new business development.
· Presenting and demonstrating products.
· Regular face-to-face customer meetings.
· Closing opportunities and building long-term repeat business.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager - Joinery, Fenestration, Construction
 
As our Business Development Manager, Area Sales Manager you'll have a proven track record of closing industrial type sales and developing long-term client accounts across the South East. You may have owned your own joinery business or sold within the timber, PVC, Aluminum door & window sector. Above all you'll bring the drive and self-motivation needed to build your (and our) reputation throughout your territory.
 
In additional you will:
· Be an expert at planning your time, to maximise your time in front of your customers
· Ideally bring previous experience of selling to the construction, fenestration, and / or joinery sectors
· Be competent with IT systems and CRM packages (we use NetSuite and full training will be provided)
· Be used to working as part of a team, supporting others and building positive internal relationships
 
THE COMPANY:
 
Based in the South West of the country, we're a growing family business that's been delivering the highest quality door and window hardware for over 20 years. From humble beginnings we are proud to supply our products to a huge range of hardware distributors, door and window manufacturers, architects and specifiers, joiners, installers, construction companies and builders.
 
PROSPECTS:
 
We're growing quickly.  As you develop your territory, you'll have the opportunity to hire additional headcount to maintain growth.
 
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: Area Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Territory Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Sales Representative - Construction, Joinery, Fenestration, Manufacturing, Engineering, Window Hardware, Door Hardware, Door Manufacturer, Window Manufacturer.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: LO18081, Wallace Hind Selection