Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber Area to be covered: South East, Anglia and Southern part of East Midlands Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000 Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve: * Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of timber products * Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups * Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients * Dealing with order values from £12k - £250k * Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts * Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin * Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts * Responsible for 100,000m3 cubic meters of materials * Due to size of territory, there will be some away night covering the territory as well as site and customer visits The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products experience with: * Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups * Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, more importantly dealing with the buying groups and buying group members * Dealing with order values up to £250k * Interpersonal skills * Autonomous * Great relationship builder/ account development skills The Company: * Est. 20 years+ * Circa £10m turnover * 50+ employees * Privately held 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: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber