
Area Sales Manager - Wood Repair Resins and Fillers
- South East England
- £50,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Field sales position, selling a range of epoxy resins and fillers for wood repair
- 40% of your time winning specifications with predominantly quantity surveyors and architects and other specifiers within local authorities, Heritage companies and property management organisations
- 30% stimulating demand for product with main contractors and specialist joinery and timber sub-contractors
- 20% of your time managing relationships with paint manufacturers and conducting project visits and doing all associated admin
- 10% of time managing relationships with circa 40 painting & decorating merchants (quarterly visits only)
- Inheriting an area with a turnover of circa £1.5m
- Tasked with growing the area by 20% next year
- Initially 70% new business development, 30% account management, although this will change to 80% account management over time as all won projects are retained
- Working in a “buddy system” with a Technical Account Manager who will be responsible for all site inspections, site surveys and training for customers
- Project sizes up to £30,000, with an average order value of circa £10,000-£20,000
- Social media/ LinkedIn savvy
- Field sales experience within the building products/ construction industry (ideally 2 years+)
- Must have sold to contractors +/or specifiers and understand the specification sales process
- Ideally sold associated products such as resins, fillers, grouts, adhesives, coatings, paints or other timber/ joinery associated products
- Selling one manufactured range of products (not from a merchant background)
- Ideally with contacts within quantity surveyors, architects, local authorities, heritage companies or property management organisations
- Ability to communicate and build relationships with main contractors or sub-contractors such as joinery/ timber contractors
- Outgoing, empathetic and tonnes of charisma
- Team player, comfortable working in a “buddy system”
- Established 30 years
- £4m+ turnover
- 12+ employees