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Vacancy No 5264

Vacancy Title

Area Sales Executive-Building Products Distributor- North West

Vacancy Description

Are you interested in working for one of the UK’s fastest growing suppliers of construction products? If so, this exciting Sales Executive position might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

The Company

With its mission to build a sustainable future for the construction industry and their focus on delivering a first-class service to their customers, the company has established themselves as one of the UK’s leading construction product distributors and continues to go from strength to strength in the specialist markets it serves.

They operate across the country with branches in over 15 locations, stocking in excess of 40 product ranges encompassing an impressive 15,000 products. They pride themselves on their ability to deliver products to their customers quickly and efficiently.

Their ethos is that the best solutions are found by the best teams, which is why they continuously invest in their people to develop and improve their skills and expertise and help them achieve their professional goals.

They recruit people who have a genuine interest in their customers, take pride in their work and enjoy finding solutions to customer’s challenges. As part of their plans to expand their business and the expertise they provide, they are now looking to appoint a Sales Executive to join their successful National sales team.

Reporting to: Regional Manager (North)

As Area Sales Executive, this role demands a high level of self-motivation, a professional sales manner and the ability to both develop and maintain an existing customer base along with identifying and generating new business opportunities across the North West region.

Main duties involve:

• Proactively contact both current and prospective customers, building strong relationships with the aim of maximising sales and exceeding KPI’s and targets for the region.
• Identify and track project opportunities across the North West region utilising a variety of sources such as ABI/ Glenigan etc.
• Target contractors and specialist Sub-Contractors to develop sales opportunities.
• Introduce key initiative products.
• Produce sales reports and identify key market trends, delivering these insights to the management team and colleagues across the wider business.
• Provide timely and accurate estimates to customers for products and services.
• Ensure the required margin is maintained.
• Deliver excellent customer service and communication.

The Candidate

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to enjoy working within a fast-paced sales environment where professionalism and high levels of customer service are key to success. You should have the ability to thrive in an autonomous role that requires self-motivation along with strong relationship-building and negotiation skills.

Experience in the construction industry is imperative along with a proven track record in building and maintaining relationships with contractors across the North West of England.

Other skills required include:

• Knowledge of a range of construction materials (drainage or civil engineering products would be an advantage).
• A self-starter.
• Ability to manage and organise your own diary.
• Knowledge of the House Builder market (advantageous).
• Excellent communication skills and organisational skills.
• Enthusiastic and professional manner.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Able to work using your own initiative within a demanding, target driven environment.
• A full, clean driving license.

This role offers the successful candidate excellent career progression opportunities along with continued training and professional development opportunities.

Location/Area: North West England

Salary: Negotiable dependent on experience + uncapped Sales incentive

Package: Company car, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, staff discount, contributory travel and health scheme, full support and continuous training.