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Area Sales Manager

Talenthire Group
Posted a day ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Gravesend, Kent DA11 8HN, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are seeking an experienced Area Sales Manager located in the Northfleet area with a salary of £40,000 to £50,000 per year.
  • The role involves achieving sales targets, generating leads, and building strong customer relationships to increase profitability.
  • Candidates must have previous sales and negotiation experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a similar role.
  • Key responsibilities include acquiring new customers, managing personal work activities, and adhering to health and safety policies.
  • A full UK driving license and good IT skills are essential, while specific product knowledge and experience with Builders Merchants are desirable.

We are looking for an experienced Area Sales Manager based in Northfleet area

  • To increase profitability by striving the achieve Sales Targets, Lead Generation, building relationships with customers and ensuring pricing is effective.
  • Grow relationship with existing customers to maximize sales opportunities.
  • Acquisition of new customers through coordinated business development activities.
  • To establish co-operative working relationships with other employees.
  • Achieve individual sales targets and proactively champion the team’s objectives in order to achieve unit targets.
  • Use a professional customer service approach when dealing with customers resulting in a superior customer experience.
  • Manage personal work activities, ensuring the workload is achieved to agreed deadlines and quality standards.
  • Take responsibility for maintaining their own knowledge and the development of others on the company processes, procedures, databases and supporting information. Use this information to maximize sales opportunities.
  • Adhere to the requirements of legislation and company Health & Safety policies.
  • Continually promoting employee involvement in Health & Safety practices and leading by example. Take appropriate remedial action when standards are not met.
  • Good verbal, written communication, numeracy and IT skills.

ESSENTIAL:

  • Good level of IT skills and knowledge of standard computer applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SAP.
  • GCSE or Level Education.
  • Previous Sales and negotiation experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Broad product knowledge awareness.
  • Ability to achieve and exceed expectations and targets.
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic and an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • The ability to work as part of a team as well as work on own initiative.
  • Full UK Driving License

DESIRABLE:

  • Specific product and industry knowledge.
  • Experience of dealing with both National & Independent Builders Merchants.

This role comes with a car allowance and laptop/phone - based near Northfleet (Essex) home based with around 1 day a week in the office - selling concrete products.

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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.