Area Sales Manager – Flooring

Area Sales Manager – Flooring Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Flooring Industry Sector: Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring, Tufted Carpet and Engineered Wood Areas to be covered: North East, Yorkshire & Cumbria (TD, NE, CA, DL, DH, SR, TS, HG, YO, HU) Remuneration: £38,000-£40,000 + £12,000-£15,000 Bonus Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits The role of the Area Sales Manager – Flooring will involve: * Field sales position selling a mid to high end manufactured range of carpet, as well as a quality range of LVT and engineered wood * Selling into independent flooring retailers and distributors * Responsible for circa 280 retail customers on patch * £4m revenue responsibility * Tasked with growing an area currently performing well against budget * 90% account management, 10% new business development position * Account sizes will vary from £5,000 per annum up to £70,000 per annum (although 2 x multi million pound accounts on the area) * Supporting retail showrooms with merchandising The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Flooring with: * * Must have proven field sales experience with LVT luxury vinyl tile, carpet or wood flooring Must have sold into flooring retail showrooms or buying group members * Must be comfortable selling POS (point of sale) displays * Would consider flooring/ carpet retail showroom experience if can demonstrate strong determination and desire for a field sales role * Comfortable with occasional overnight stays when required * Self-motivated/ enthusiastic * Commercially aware * Ideally worked for a flooring manufacturer The Company: * * Part of a larger group * Circa 50 UK employees * Approx. £50m UK turnover Mitchell Maguire is a specialist construction field sales recruitment consultancy, dealing exclusively with construction field sales jobs, construction field sales vacancies and specification field sales positions within: Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Buying Group Members, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring and Tufted Carpet