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Specification Sales Manager - Heating and Ventilation
Job Title: Specification Sales Manager - Heating & Ventilation
Industry Sector: Social Housing, Building Services, Showering, Panel Heaters, Water Heating, Ventilation, Instant Hot Water, Renewable products, HVAC, Electric Heating, Renewable Energy, Social Housing, Social Landlords, Housing Associations, Local Authorities, New Build, Regional Housebuuilders, M&E Consultants, Domestic Ventilation, M&E Contractors, Electrical Contractors/ Electrical Installers
Areas to be covered: North London, North of South East & Anglia
Remuneration: £55,500-£65,000 Neg. + 20% BonusBenefits: Fully expensed hybrid car or £450 per month car allowance + full benefits packageThe role of the Specification Sales Manager - Heating & Ventilation will involve:
- Field sales position selling our clients new and existing manufactured range of heating, ventilation and renewables
- Specification led field sales position, you will be provided with a list of approx. 40 regional social landlords to target (not necessarily with contacts)
- 85% of your time targeting social housing, you will spend the majority of your time influencing specifiers within key social housing landlords at head office level, as well as housing associations and local authorities
- 15% winning specifications with regional housebuilders/ housing developers
- Tying up specification at a high level, cascading information down to field sales team on the patch, advising on which social housing providers have funding, and who are the best points of contact etc.
- 60% of your time winning new social housing projects within new customers, 40% within existing/ known relationships
- Working on projects from £50,000 up to £500,000 framework agreements
- Targeted to achieve circa £1.5m of won specifications in year One and £2.5m in year Two
- Predominantly refurbishment projects
- Will involve some social housing new build projects as a joint venture with regional housebuilders/ private housing developers
- Act as a trusted advisor for sustainability managers and key stakeholders (help max efficiency of housing stock)
- Likely that you will conduct between 2-4 CPD presentations per month
The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager - Heating & Ventilation with:
- A proven track record of wining social housing specification projects in a field sales role
- Knowledge of social housing frameworks may be advantageous
- An understanding of social housing regulations
- May be open to regional housebuilder/ new build specification sales experience
- Good technical understanding
- Drive/ high energy
- Ideally sold heating, electrical or ventilation associated products, although our client is open to most construction product field sales backgrounds
- Ability to target large social housing providers
- Team player
- Good negotiation and customer management skills
- Positive can-do attitude
The Company:
- Market leading manufacturer
- Includes household/ brand names in the portfolio
- £100m+ turnover
- Part of a large global group
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: Social housing, housing associations, local authorities, electrical contractors and electrical wholesalers, heating, hot water, showering, ventilation products storage heaters, panel heaters, convectors, electric fires, commercial boilers, electrical, heat pumps, biomass, renewable, solar thermal systems, heat emitters, HVAC, M&E, and specifiers
