Job Description

Area Sales Manager - Bathrooms and Showers
Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Bathrooms and Showers
Job reference Number: 731304-5797-25258
Industry Sector: Plumbers Merchants, Independent Bathroom specialists, Independent Retailers, Bathroom Showrooms, Merchants and DIY Stores
Area to be covered: North West + DN & S postcodes
Remuneration: 38,000-42,000 Neg. + 20% Bonus
Benefits: 500 per month car allowance or hybrid car & full benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager - Bathrooms and Showers will involve:

• Field sales position, promoting taps, showers and accessories for bathrooms and also kitchens
• 90% of your time selling into selling into plumbers merchants
• Small amount of time trying to win specifications with predominantly small housebuilders, but also have some influence with local authorities, housing associations, architects and interior designers
• Inheriting an area, currently performing well against budget expectation
• Responsible for circa 400-500 plumbers merchants customers (80% of the revenue come from the top 120 customers) - same number of accounts?
• 30% new business development, 70% account management
• Initially responsible for approx. 1.8m
• Implementing a 12 week journey plan which will see you visit customers in proportion to their value to the business
• Typically 4 days on the road visiting customers, 1 day a week working from home/ admin

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Bathrooms and Showers with:

• Proven field sales track record
• Must have sold into plumbers merchants (may consider currently working for a plumbers merchant looking for first field sales role)
• Proven account management skills; excellent relationship builder etc.
• Ambitious, dynamic and hard working personality
• Knowledge of showers, bathrooms, brassware, tapware, sanitaryware preferred
• Ability to build structured journey plan
• Autonomous, driven self starter, no leaflet droppers

The Company:

• 100 years+
• 60+ UK employees
• Circa 20m+ turnover
• Part of a larger group

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Plumbers Merchants, Brassware, Tapware, Sanitaryware, Heating, Radiators, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Boilers, Renewables, Plumbing, Showers and the Tile industry

Skills Required