Area Sales Manager – Plumbing & Heating

Job Title: Regional Sales Manager – Plumbing & Heating

Industry Sector: Plumbing and Heating Merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Builders Merchants, Hardware Stores and Buying Groups, Soil & Waste, Rainwater Harvesting, Above Ground Drainage, Below Ground Drainage, Ventilation, Heating, Hot & Cold water, Commercial Boilers, Heat Pumps, Biomass, Renewable, HVAC, M&E, Mechanical Engineers and other plumbing and heating systems

Area to be covered: North East, Yorkshire and East Midlands

Based: North East & Yorkshire

Remuneration: £45,000-£50,000 Neg. + 15% Bonus per quarter!

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager Plumbing & Heating will involve:

• Field sales position, selling our clients distributed range (75%) and own brand range (25% of plumbing and heating supplies to plumbers merchants , builders merchants, hardware stores and buying groups
• 80% account management, 20% new business development position
• Responsible for circa top 200 live accounts (typically ranging from £5,000-£100,000 turnover)
• Revenue responsibility circa £2m-£2.5m
• Circa 18-20 customer appointments per week
• Attending trade mornings
• Offering recommendations for new products lines and managing the area through rigorous business planning
• Identifying purchase decision makers and arrange and attend sales visits
• Building relationships with both existing and prospective clients
• Huge prospect database

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Plumbing & Heating with:

• A proven field sales track record in the plumbing & heating industry
• Either successfully selling to plumbers merchants or may consider someone working for a plumbers merchant in a field sales capacity
• Account management/ relationship building skills
• Entrepreneurial attitude
• Comfortable with IT systems and CRM reporting
• Friendly, assertive, independent, quick paced and able to work on own initiative
• Persuasive with ability to sell concepts and ideas by gaining commitment and willing acceptance
• An outlook which will thrive in a challenging environment, and have the freedom to act and the authority to take decisions

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: Plumbing and Heating Merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Builders Merchants, Hardware Stores and Buying Groups, Soil & Waste, Rainwater Harvesting, Above Ground Drainage, Below Ground Drainage, Ventilation, Heating, Hot & Cold water, Commercial Boilers, Heat Pumps, Biomass, Renewable, HVAC, M&E, Mechanical Engineers and other plumbing and heating systems