Regional Sales Manager

Are you based in the North Devon or Somerset area?

Are you an experienced Regional Sales Manager with experience of remotely managing an external field based sales team?

Jewson, a leading building materials distributor in Northern Europe, is on the hunt for a Regional Sales Manager to cover the North Devon and Somerset area.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 730am to 5pm

Location: Hybrid working covering the Region and can use local branches as needed

Duties will include:

• Developing strategies to promote the company's products and services

• Hiring, training and motivating sales teams

• Preparing sales forecasts, establishing sales goals for the region and communicating these to the marketing and sales teams

• Collaborating with Customers to identify their needs and improve results

• Establishing best practices and enforcing compliance with industry regulations

• Performing market research and collecting customer feedback to improve service delivery

• Evaluating performances, coaching, motivating and supporting the External Sales team

• Maintaining cordial relationship with suppliers and customers in the region

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Basic Salary

• Performance Related Bonus

• Car Allowance

• Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) - with Legal & General

• Life Assurance - From your first day of employment with us you are automatically covered for a lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x your basic salary. However, if you join the STARK Building Materials Retirement Savings Plan (including if you are automatically enrolled) and contribute a minimum of 4% of your Pensionable Earnings, your lump sum death in service benefit will be increased to 4 x your Pensionable Earnings.

• WorkPerks - A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway

• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation)

• Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover

• Employee Discount

• Refer a Friend scheme

• Wellbeing Centre via WorkPerks

• New Reward and Recognition programme - launching soon!

Required Skills and Experience

• A full UK Drivers Licence

• Strong external sales management skills and commercial focus

• Previous remote sales management experience

• Current knowledge of building materials and of the current construction market in this geographical area would be beneficial to the role

• Proven experience in customer facing business and a proactive sales and customer focused environment delivering results.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; written, phone and face to face.

About us

At Jewson, we're proud to be part of STARKBuilding Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.?

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and join a team that is dedicated to providing great service, we want to hear from you. Apply today!