Specification Sales Manager Wood Repair

Specification Sales Manager Wood Repair

Job Title: Specification Account Manager Wood Repair Resins and Fillers

Industry Sector: Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Specifiers, Heritage Companies, Property Management Companies,Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Joinery Sub-Contractors, Painting & Decorating Merchants and General Builders Merchants

Area to be covered: South Home Counties (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Hampshire)

Remuneration: £50,000 £55,000. + Up to £8,000 Bonus and £2,500-£5,000 Profit Share

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits

The role of the Specification Sales Manager Painting & Decorating will involve:

Field sales position, selling a range of epoxy resins and fillers for wood repair

60% of your time winning specifications with predominantly quantity surveyors and architects and other specifiers within local authorities, Heritage companies and property management organisations

20% 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

Inheriting an area with a turnover of circa £1m

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

The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager Painting & Decorating with:

Must have specification field sales experience within the building products/ construction industry (ideally 2 years+)

Ideally also sold to contractors, but must understand the specification sales process

Team player, comfortable working in a buddy system

Open to most product field sales backgrounds, but ideally sold associated products such as resins, fillers, grouts, adhesives, coatings, paints or other timber/ joinery products

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

The Company:

Established 30 years

£6m+ turnover

20+ employees

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, with an enviable reputation in the marketplace. We pride ourselves on surpassing client and candidate expectations again and again. Our core focus is within the building materials arena, and includes sectors such as: epoxy, resins, fillers, grouts, windows, timber, architectural paint, remedial work, adhesives, local authorities, architects, main contractors, social housing, housing associations, joinery sub-contractors, quantity surveyors, specifiers, heritage companies, property management companies, housing associations, painting & decorating merchants and general builders merchants

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