Area Sales Manager - Plumbing & Drainage
- Norfolk Suffolk
- £15,000-18,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Field sales role, selling company's manufactured range of gravity fed above and below ground drainage systems, including; underground drainage, rainwater guttering, soil and waste drainage systems
- 60% of your time building relationships with building contractors, civil contractors, groundworkers and various small to medium sized builders and developers (looking to grow house builder customer base)
- 40% Back selling through independent builders merchants & civil merchants and independent plumbers merchants (approx. 75-100 accounts in total)
- Inheriting a territory achieving circa £2.5m turnover, up on budget expectation
- Inheriting an extremely mature territory, incumbent field sales representative has been on patch 10 years!
- 60% new business development, 40% account management role
- Must have 2-3 years proven field sales territory management experience
- Sold heavyside building materials
- Ideally sold to building contractors, civil contractors, groundworkers or various small to medium sized builders and developers
- Open to candidates that have also sold to builders merchants, plumbers merchants or civil merchants
- Also be open to a field sales representative that has worked for a builders merchants, plumbers merchants or civil merchants
- Specific knowledge of gravity fed above and below ground drainage applications such as underground drainage, rainwater guttering, soil and waste drainage systems is not required
- Plumbing, drainage or heating field sales experience is not essential, our client is open to many different heavy-side building product backgrounds
- CRM proficient, high level of ability in terms of numeracy, IT capability, communication & organisational skills
- Go getter with raw enthusiasm
- 500+ employees
- British company
- 100m+ turnover
- Large independent manufacturer