Field sales Representative – Timber

Area Sales Manager – Timber

Job Title: Field sales Representative – Timber

Job reference Number: (phone number removed)

Industry Sector: Timber, Wood, timber sheets, cladding, construction, Builders Merchants, Timber Merchants

Areas to be covered: South West –focus on Devon & Cornwall

Remuneration: £35,000-£50,000 + up to 17.5% Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed EV company car & full benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Timber will involve:

• Field sales role promoting timber,  timber sheets and cladding
• Selling into timber merchants
• 50% of your time managing a key customer with circa 20 branches on the area
• 50% of your time deevloping 20-30 lapsed accounts/ customers that have suffered from a lack of field sales representation
• Key account responsibility for circa £5m, focus on cross selling and upselling timber products
• £1m target for specials products and new customer revenue
• Ideally you will be able to pop into our clients South East Cornwall based depot one/ two times per week
• Support the branch manager in driving up branch growth

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Timber with:

• Field sales experience with timber is a strong preference
• Open to building products backgrounds with a proven track record of selling into merchant customers (ideally timber merchants, but open to builders merchants)
• Hungry and willing to learn
• Easy going temperament
• Resilient
• Mix of new business and account development skills
• Self-motivated, proactive and target driven
• Autonomous in natufre
• IT literate

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: Timber, Wood, timber sheets, cladding, construction, Builders Merchants, Timber Merchants