Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers

Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers Industry Sector: Plumbers Merchants, Independent Bathroom specialists, Independent Retailers, Bathroom Showrooms, Merchants and DIY Stores Area to be covered: North East & Yorkshire + CA & LA postcodes Postcodes: NE, DH, SR, TS, DL, YO, HU, HG, JS, WF, HX, HD, CA & LA Remuneration: £38,000-£42,000 Neg. + 20% Bonus Benefits: £500 per month car allowance or hybrid car & full benefits The role of the Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers will involve: * Field sales position, promoting taps, showers and accessories for bathrooms and also kitchens * 90% of your time selling into selling into plumbers merchants * Small amount of time trying to win specifications with predominantly small housebuilders, but also have some influence with local authorities, housing associations, architects and interior designers * Inheriting an area, currently performing well against budget expectation * Responsible for circa (Apply online only) plumbers merchants customers (80% of the revenue come from the top 120 customers) – same number of accounts? * 30% new business development, 70% account management * Initially responsible for approx. £1.8m * Implementing a 12 week journey plan which will see you visit customers in proportion to their value to the business * Typically 4 days on the road visiting customers, 1 day a week working from home/ admin The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers with: * Proven field sales track record * Must have sold into plumbers merchants (may consider currently working for a plumbers merchant looking for first field sales role) * Proven account management skills; excellent relationship builder etc. * Ambitious, dynamic and hard working personality * Knowledge of showers, bathrooms, brassware, tapware, sanitaryware preferred * Ability to build structured journey plan * Autonomous, driven self starter, no leaflet droppers The Company: * Est. 100 years+ * 60+ UK employees * Circa £20m+ turnover * Part of a larger group Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Plumbers Merchants, Brassware, Tapware, Sanitaryware, Heating, Radiators, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Boilers, Renewables, Plumbing, Showers and the Tile industry