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Area Sales Manager Plumbers Merchants & Bathroom Showrooms

Mitchell Maguire
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Glasgow, City of Glasgow G2 5LA, Scotland

Salary

£50,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Area Sales Manager position focuses on selling bathroom furniture and sanitaryware to plumbers merchants and bathroom showrooms in Scotland, ideally based in the central belt.
  • The role offers a salary of up to £50,000, with the potential for an additional 20% bonus and benefits including a fully expensed hybrid car.
  • Candidates should have proven field sales experience, ideally with a background in plumbers merchants or independent bathroom retailers, and a stable career history.
  • The position requires account management of approximately 120 accounts and involves a revenue responsibility of around £8 million, with 80% of the role dedicated to account management.
  • Applicants should possess strong relationship-building skills, a tenacious and self-motivated attitude, and be comfortable entertaining clients.

Area Sales Manager Plumbers Merchants & Bathroom Showrooms

Job Title: Area Sales Manager Plumbers Merchants & Bathroom Showrooms

Industry Sector: Builders Merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Independent Bathroom Showrooms, KBB, Bathroom Furniture and Sanitaryware

Area to be covered: Scotland ideally based central belt

Remuneration: Up to £50,000 Neg. + up to 20% Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager Plumbers Merchants & Bathroom Showrooms will involve:

Field sales position, selling our clients manufactured range of bathroom furniture and sanitaryware

Account managing circa 120 plumbing and builders merchants and member of buying groups (split 70% nationals, 30% independents) and approx. 30 mid-high end bathroom retail showrooms

Calling on accounts on a 8-16 week cycle dependent on size

Revenue responsibility of circa £8m

80% account management and 20% new business development (recruiting new accounts/ generating new relationships with bathroom retailers growth area)

Stabilising the largest territory by postcodes for our client in the UK, currently performing 9% below budget expectation

Working in a buddy system with a Specification Manager, who will be responsible for house builders, architects, interior designers and plumbing contractors

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Plumbers Merchants & Bathroom Showrooms with:

Proven field sales experience with plumbers merchants or independent bathroom retailers

Previous bathroom/ sanitaryware or kitchen product sales would be a distinct advantage

Proven track record of building strong relationships and achieving annual targets

Stable career history

Outgoing personality comfortable with entertaining clients and attending evening events

Team player

Strong focus on customer satisfaction

Tenacious, self motivated and confident

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: Builders Merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Independent Bathroom Showrooms, KBB, Bathroom Furniture and Sanitaryware





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