Area Sales Manager – Plumbing Fittings

Area Sales Manager – Plumbing Fittings

Job Title: Regional Sales Manager – Plumbing Fittings

Industry Sector: Plumbing fittings, press fittings, copper pipe, accessories, valves, tooling, valves, stainless, carbon, plumbers merchants, builders merchants, distribution, mechanical contractors, plumbers, installers

Area to be covered: London & Home Counties

Remuneration: £50,000-£55,000 Neg. + 15-20% Bonus

Benefits: £500 car allowance + full benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Plumbing Fittings will involve:

* Field sales position, selling a distributed range of plumbing fitting, press fittings, pipe, ancillaries, accessories and tooling

* Selling into circa hundreds of trading merchant accounts, predominantly plumbers merchants but also plumbing and heating distributors

* Inheriting an area that has not had dedicated full time field sales coverage

* Tasked with growing turnover from £500,000 to £800,000

* 75% of your time looking after the plumbers merchants and plumbing and heating distributors

* 25% stimulating demand with mechanical contractors. Plumbers and plumbing and heating installers

* 4 days a week on the road in front of customers, typically 4 visits per day

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Plumbing Fittings with:

* Proven field sales experience within the plumbing and heating industry

* Must have sold into plumbers merchants

* Ideally stimulated demand for plumbing products with mechanical contractors and plumbing installers

* Familiarity with plumbing fitting, press fittings, pipe, ancillaries, accessories and tooling may be advantageous

* Proven account management/ account development skills

* Excellent territory planning skills

* Contacts within distributors is not essential but may be useful

* Incredibly pro-active, driven and motivated, prepared to manage the area as if it was your own business

* Commercial acumen, resilient

The Company:

* Est. 12 years+

* Circa £6m turnover

* Privately held

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within:

Plumbing fittings, press fittings, copper pipe, accessories, valves, tooling, valves, stainless, carbon, plumbers merchants, builders merchants, distribution, mechanical contractors, plumbers, installers
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed