Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Area to be covered: Northern Ireland + Louth, Monaghan, Donegal & Cavan

Salary: £60,000-£65,000 Negotiable/ dependent on experience

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve:

• Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of sawn timber including; carcassing timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, block wood, kiln dried decking and fencing timber
• Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
• Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
• Dealing with order values from €12k - €250k
• Taking over an established region with circa 200+ active accounts
• Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin
• Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts, typically 6 customer calls per day
• Contributing towards 120,000 cubic meters of material sales (50%+ of this will be managed by the internal team at head office)
• Two-three overnight stays per dependent on location

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products experience with:

• Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
• Must have sold into builders merchants, timber merchants or buying group members
• Dealing with order values up to €250,000
• Interpersonal skills
• Autonomous
• Great relationship builder/ account development skills

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber