Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager

Southwest

£35,000 - £40,000

Commission Structure

Company Car

A vacancy has become available for a business looking for an Area Sales Manager.

This position is a mixture of new and existing businesses emphasizing growing new customer accounts.

This vacancy will support Southwest England's growth. With a team of 18 across the business and reporting to the National Sales Manager, it will be a key contributor to the company's success.

The purpose of the role is to sell the business product portfolio to existing customers in the area while also finding new businesses. To be successful in this position you will be a self-motivated and target-driven individual with proven sales experience. Along with strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills, you will have the competitive desire and drive to succeed and gain results.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure sales and growth targets are achieved and exceeded.
• Maintain and develop strong customer relationships, ensuring customer enquiries are dealt with efficiently and developing and maintaining effective relationships with the distribution partner branches their sales engineers, and their customer base.
• Continued new business development in the area with a strong focus on identifying new or potential customers supporting the partners in customers to upsell company products.
• Increase awareness of local market conditions and feedback on competitor activity in the area.
• Strong focus on generating new business and driving specification.
• Desire to identify and understand end-user applications, projects, and the needs of consultants in your area.
• Able to prepare and present sales presentations.

Key Attributes

Mechanical Engineering background – ONC/HNC/Degree or equivalent OR previous experience selling a technical product

• A proven track record in solution sales
• IT Literate specifically in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Full clean driving license, to attend customer sites as required
• Driven to provide a high level of customer service and build strong working relationships
• Preferable to have previous experience in maintaining a CRM system
• A team player

What's in it for you

• £35,000 - £40, 000 basic
• Company Car or Allowance
• Fuel Car
• Westfield Health
• Bupa Health
• 25 Days Holiday + Statutory Bank Holidays
• Option to purchase additional holidays

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