Area Sales Manager - Stoves and Fireplaces

Job Title: Southern Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning Stoves

Industry Sector: Wood Burning Stoves, Limestone Fireplaces, Domestic Solid Fuel, Secondary Heating, Fireplace Retail Showrooms, Plumbing & Heating Merchants and Electrical Wholesalers

Area to be covered: South - (South of a line from Gloucester to Kings Lynn)

Remuneration: £45,000 + £12,000-£15,000 Commission

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning Stoves will involve:

* Field sales position selling our clients manufactured range of domestic solid fuel stove ranges

* Selling into an established network of retail fireplace specialist showrooms

* Initially responsible for circa 130 retail showroom accounts with a turnover of approx. £1.8m

* 80-90% account management/ account development role, huge opportunity for growth as the South East and South West have the highest concentration of wood burners in the UK (North West region has a turnover of £3m)

* 10-20% of your time weeding out poor performing accounts and replacing these with new independent retailers

* Fireplace retailers vary in size from £20,000 to £250,000 turnover

* Working in conjunction with a field sales person promoting our clients range of gas and electric fires

* Promoting products and obtaining display space

* Developing relationship with independent retail managers/ owners

* 1st month will be heavily product training centric (conducted by Stoves sales Director)

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning Stoves with:

* Must have field sales experience within the independent retail showroom market

* Experience selling into installers and trade shops may be beneficial for future business development

* Ideally sold associated products to stoves or fireplace, heating products etc.

* Technical sales capability (may consider KBB product sales backgrounds with strong technical capability and strong customer base experience)

* Team player, self-motivated comfortable with lone working and occasional overnight stays

* Knowledge of different sales techniques and pipeline management

* “Roll sleeves up” mentality

The Company:

* Est. 30 Years+

* £15m turnover+

* One of the largest and friendliest companies operating in the domestic secondary heating and fireplace market

* 50+ employees

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: Wood Burning Stoves, Limestone Fireplaces, Domestic Solid Fuel, Secondary Heating, Fireplace Retail Showrooms, Plumbing & Heating Merchants and Electrical Wholesalers