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Technical Sales Manager - Heavy Plant Hire and Cranes
Job Title: Technical Regional Sales Manager - Heavy Plant Hire & CranesIndustry Sector: Construction, Main Contractors, Sub Contractors, Timber Frame Sub Contractors, Hire industry, Cranes and Heavy Plant Hire
Area to be covered: South - ideally based Birmingham to London
Remuneration: £40,000-£45,000 + £5,000-£10,000 Bonus
Benefits: Fully expensed car + benefits packageThe role of the Area Sales Manager - Heavy Plant & Cranes will involve:
- Field sales role selling the hire of cranes, typical weekly rate of £500-£1,500 per crane
- Targeted at achieving 4-5 contracts per month, typically for 20-30 weeks
- Responsible for an area with existing customers
- 80% new business development, 20% account managing existing customers
- Fantastic telemarketing support
- Targeting main contractors and specialist sub contractors such timber frame sub contractors
- Typical projects at least three storey buildings such as apartment blocks, school extensions, hospitals etc.
- Large proportion of time will be spent on construction sites, conducting site survey quotes
- Overnight stays required
- Understanding site layout drawings and specifying up cranes for clients
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Heavy Plant & Cranes with:
- Proven field sales track record selling into the construction industry
- Experience of having sold the hire of cranes or heavy plant is not essential, open to plant hire backgrounds and associated technical backgrounds looking for field sales
- Technical capability
- Ability to interpret site layout drawings
- Previous experience of selling to construction sites
- Open to related products such as; formwork, mobile cranes, falsework, diggers, dumpers, forklifts, excavators, platforms, generators, mast climbers etc
- Strong territory management skills
- Motivated, keen to learn, hungry and autonomous
- Prior hire sales experience to construction sites is desirable
The Company:
- Well established
- Nationwide presence
- Privately held
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: construction, main contractors, sub contractors, timber frame sub contractors, Cranes, powered access towers, plant hire, heavy machinery, diggers, dumpers, trucks, modular buildings, portacabins, excavators, formwork, mobile cranes, falsework, diggers, platforms, generators, dumpers, forklifts, excavators, mast climbers groundwork equipment, tool hire and construction plant hire
