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Sales Office Manager - Building Materials

GCS Associates
Posted 8 hours ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Feltham, Greater London TW13 4DH

Salary

£35,000 - £42,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The role of Sales Office Manager for a National distributor in the building materials sector is based in West London and offers a salary of up to £65,000 plus a bonus of up to 30% of the salary and a company car.
  • The position requires candidates to have experience in sales management within the building supply or merchant sector, specifically managing annual budgets between £5-10 million.
  • Key responsibilities include achieving sales targets, maintaining relationships with target accounts, promoting new products, and leading a team of 7 internal sales staff.
  • Candidates should possess strong communication, negotiation skills, and a customer-focused approach, along with the ability to motivate employees and manage training needs.
  • The overall package includes a competitive salary, a bonus scheme, company pension contributions, life assurance, and generous holiday entitlement.

Role: Sales Office Manager - Building Materials

Location: West London

Sector: Building / Construction Supplies

Package: Up to £65,000 plus bonus (up to 30% of salary) and Company Car

With branches across the UK, our client is a National distributor of products into the construction sector.

Dealing with contractors and merchants, they are currently looking to recruit an experienced Sales Office Manager to oversee and develop an internal sales team of 7 staff, based from their site in West London.

Key responsibilities:

Reporting to the General Manager, the Sale Office Manager will be responsible for the following areas:

  • Achieve and maintain sales and margin targets
  • Maintain and develop trading with target accounts, both new and existing, within agreed sectors
  • Develop sales by pricing and negotiating competitively for work, making best use of trade leads, project-tracking information, and local knowledge
  • Promotion of new products to existing and target client base
  • Plan sales activities effectively and efficiently using project-tracking, and trade leads
  • Plan product promotions with suppliers to achieve branch targets
  • Report commercial activities, maintaining customer records, reporting and monitoring progress towards agreed objectives
  • Lead, manage and motivate employees including employee training needs
  • Conduct regular team meetings
  • Maintain up-to-date product knowledge in liaison with suppliers and undertake training where necessary

Key attributes:

  • Customer focused
  • Strong communication and negotiation
  • Results focused
  • Relationship builder
  • Detail conscious
  • Personable
  • Commercially astute

Skills:

  • Sales
  • Customer service and people management experience
  • Numerate
  • Literate
  • IT knowledge (MS office)

Package:

  • Starting basic of up to £66,000 dependent upon experience, plus company car
  • Fantastic company bonus scheme
  • Company pension contributions & life assurance plan
  • Generous holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays

If your currently working in a Sales Management role within the building supply / merchant sector, with experience of managing annual budgets of £5-10m, please apply online, and we'll be in touch to discuss further.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.