Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools
Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools
Industry Sector: Plumbing merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Plumbing tools, Pipe Tools, Building Merchants, Building, Plumbing, Plumbers, Heating, Tools & Retail
Area to be covered: North & South Ireland - ideally based Northern Ireland
Remuneration: £38,000 Neg. + Up to £15,000 Commission
Benefits: Company car and full benefits package
The role of the Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools will involve:
- Field based position selling plumbing and pipe tools
- 60% into national and 40% independent plumbers merchants and buying groups
- 95% account management role
- Managing circa 200 customers
- Ledger responsibility £1.2m
- Typically 5 customer visits per day four days a week (unless conducting a trade morning/ demonstrating the products) work from home on Mondays to set appointments for the week/ administration
- Customers include; PTS, BSS, Heat Merchants and numerous Irish Nationals
- Using social media as a sales tool for the sales region, KPI driven/ commission element (3 x Instagram's and 3 x LinkedIn posts)
- Ensuring all POS is up to standard
- Demonstrating products to end users
- Work to re-activate non/ low spending accounts
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools with:
- Must have sold to plumbers merchants
- Open to a sales person who has worked for a plumbers merchants
- Ability to utilise social media as a sales tool would be a huge advantage
- Field sales experience is preferred, but open to other face to face environments
- Keen, hungry and with an attitude of wanting to learn and progress
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Ability to build and develop lasting relationships with customers
- Plumbing and pipe tools knowledge is not essential
- Self-motivated 'go-getter' with a flexible approach
- Able to manage and prioritise accounts
The Company:
- Global company
- Est. 65 years+
- Industry leader
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: Plumbing merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Plumbing tools, Pipe Tools, Building Merchants, Buying Groups, Building, Plumbing, Plumbers, Heating, Tools & Retail