Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products

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

Area to be covered: South East, Anglia and Southern part of East Midlands

Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

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

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• Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of timber products
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• Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
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• Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
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• Dealing with order values from £12k - £250k
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• Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts
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• Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin
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• Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts
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• Responsible for 100,000m3 cubic meters of materials
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• Due to size of territory, there will be some away night covering the territory as well as site and customer visits
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The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products experience with:

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• Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
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• Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, more importantly dealing with the buying groups and buying group members
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• Dealing with order values up to £250k
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• Interpersonal skills
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• Autonomous
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• Great relationship builder/ account development skills
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The Company:

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• Est. 20 years+
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• Circa £10m turnover
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• 50+ employees
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• Privately held
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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 lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber