Area Sales Representative

Bluetown; Warwick; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Area Sales Representative

Location: Warwick

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About us:

Are you looking for an exciting, challenging and rewarding long-term career and have what it takes to become a successful sales professional? Glasdon UK Limited is part of the Glasdon Group with companies in Europe and the United States and is a market leader in the design, marketing, and supply of environmental and safety products.

About the role:

We are looking for a charismatic Area Sales Representative for our Local Government Highways Division. This position requires you to sell a wide range of our highway's products, including road safety products, bollards, winter safety and water safety.

Our key customers for these products are Local Authorities, traffic management and highways maintenance organisations, and their contractors and consultants. Therefore, commitment to building long-lasting customer relationships is essential.

The position covers a large geographical territory encompassing Warwickshire, West Midlands, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcester, Gwent, Powys, Dyfed and Glamorgan. Ideally, we would like you to be located central to the territory in either Warwick, Coventry, Birmingham, Northampton, Banbury, Milton Keynes.

If you have a genuine desire to succeed and wish to join a progressive company, with excellent opportunities, career development opportunities and benefits then look no further. The successful candidate will be provided with full and comprehensive support and training.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Visit customers face to face to demonstrate and present a wide range of market leading products.
2. Plan and prioritise a geographical territory to arrange customer meetings.
3. Identify new business opportunities and prospect non-user accounts.
4. Follow up on sales leads and arrange customer meetings.
5. Liaise with existing customers and develop new customer relationships.
6. Interpret sales reports, trends and legislation to identify commercial markets and product opportunities.
7. Participate in team sales meetings and share product / market knowledge.
8. Work with in-house Product Design team to develop new products from concept through to production.
9. Visit trade shows and exhibitions to introduce and showcase our product range.

Ideal Candidate Background:

1. Strong Commercial Awareness.
2. Experience within field sales, account management, business development and/or customer support roles.
3. Familiar with selling products online and/or face to face via demonstration and/or presentation.
4. Strong understanding and articulation of features and benefits.
5. Knowledge of efficient planning and management of a large geographical territory.
6. A genuine interest towards developing a career in account management.
7. A high level of self-motivation and determination to achieve goals and targets.
8. Good level of IT Literacy.
9. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
10. Strong organisational, administrative and time management skills.
11. Charismatic and passionate with a stable career background.
12. Educated to A-Levels and/or University Degree or equivalent (desirable).
13. Full, Clean UK driving licence.

Salary:

1. Competitive commencing salary.
2. Quarterly sales target bonus.

Supplementary Package:

1. Company vehicle (Electric Vehicle where possible).
2. Out-of-pocket expenses.

Perks, Rewards & Benefits:

1. 33 days paid holiday (rising to 38 depending on length of service)
2. Buy/sell up to 5 days holiday each year
3. Holidays can be booked flexibly in 30-minute blocks
4. Company related performance bonuses
5. Company final salary pension scheme after a minimum of two years' service
6. Pension through NEST within 3 months of start date
7. Life insurance after a minimum of two years' service
8. Private health insurance scheme after a minimum of one years' service
9. Health cashback plan
10. Company sick pay scheme
11. Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
12. Compassionate leave
13. Relocation support loans
14. Long service awards
15. Subsidised on-site café/social space
16. Free on-site parking
17. Special occasion gifts
18. Cycle to Work scheme
19. On-site Gym and changing facilities
20. Team building activities / days
21. Hybrid working
22. Company events
23. At cost on-site electric vehicle charging points
24. Paid charity days
25. Charity fundraising events
26. Social activities
27. Promotion opportunities
28. Skills development
29. Professional study support
30. Comprehensive training programmes

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of Sales, Face-to-Face Product Demonstrations, Online Presentations, Customer Service, Business Studies, Sales Administration, Telesales, Negotiation, Sales Advisor, Customer Support, Call Centre, Territory Management, account Management, Business Development, Commercial Awareness, Communication Skills, Prospecting, LinkedIn Networking, Indirect Sales, Direct Sales and B2B Sales may also be considered.

The Glasdon Group of Companies is an equal opportunities employer.