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: North and Midlands

Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

Role Summary

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 100,000 m3 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

Ideal Applicant

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products 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 membersDealing with order values up to £250k
• Interpersonal skills
• Autonomous
• Great relationship builder/ account development skills

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