Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Area to be covered: North and Midlands

Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve:

* Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of timber products

* Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups

* Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients

* Dealing with order values from £12k - £250k

* Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts

* Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin

* Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts

* Responsible for 100m cubic meters of materials

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products experience with:

* Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups

* Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, more importantly dealing with the buying groups and buying group members

* Dealing with order values up to £250k

* Interpersonal skills

* Autonomous

* Great relationship builder/ account development skills

The Company:

* Est. 20 years+

* Circa £10m turnover

* 50+ employees

* Privately held

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: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber