Job Description

As Sales Manager you are responsible for leading and guiding your external sales team. Oversee sales proactivity, develop strategies to drive sales growth, build customer relationships, and ensure targets and revenue goals are achieved. The role involves managing, coaching, and motivating the Hybrid sales team while analysing sales data, identify key market intelligence to enhance performance.


You will be highly motivated, organised and enthusiastic with prior experience working as an Sales Manager or similar. You will need excellent people management skills and enjoy working as part of a team but also be able to manage your own workload.


You'll be working in a modern and well-equipped environment which provides opportunities to develop and grow your career. You will be part of a friendly team that continually seeks out new and innovative products and better ways to serve its customers. Benefits include a competitive salary, up to 7.5% matched pension contributions, bonus schemes, a Health Cash Plan, life assurance and a free employee assistance program offering mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support.


James Latham is one of the UK's largest independent trade distributors of timber, panels and decorative surfaces. As a long-established, family-owned business with history back to 1757, we believe our success is down to our employees and are proud to say that many of our team stay with us for decades. In a recent survey 86% said they would recommend James Latham as a great place to work.


James Latham - the natural choice