Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools

Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools

Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools

Industry Sector: Plumbing merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Plumbing tools, Pipe Tools, Building Merchants, Building, Plumbing, Plumbers, Heating, Tools & Retail

Area to be covered: North & South Ireland - ideally based Northern Ireland

Remuneration: £38,000 Neg. + Up to £15,000 Commission

Benefits: Company car and full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools will involve:

• Field based position selling plumbing and pipe tools
• 60% into national and 40% independent plumbers merchants and buying groups
• 95% account management role
• Managing circa 200 customers
• Ledger responsibility £1.2m
• Typically 5 customer visits per day four days a week (unless conducting a trade morning/ demonstrating the products) work from home on Mondays to set appointments for the week/ administration
• Customers include; PTS, BSS, Heat Merchants and numerous Irish Nationals
• Using social media as a sales tool for the sales region, KPI driven/ commission element (3 x Instagram’s and 3 x LinkedIn posts)
• Ensuring all POS is up to standard
• Demonstrating products to end users
• Work to re-activate non/ low spending accounts

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Plumbing and Pipe Tools with:

• Must have sold to plumbers merchants
• Open to a sales person who has worked for a plumbers merchants
• Ability to utilise social media as a sales tool would be a huge advantage
• Field sales experience is preferred, but open to other face to face environments
• Keen, hungry and with an attitude of wanting to learn and progress
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Ability to build and develop lasting relationships with customers
• Plumbing and pipe tools knowledge is not essential
• Self-motivated 'go-getter’ with a flexible approach
• Able to manage and prioritise accounts

The Company:

• Global company
• Est. 65 years+
• Industry leader

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 merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Plumbing tools, Pipe Tools, Building Merchants, Buying Groups, Building, Plumbing, Plumbers, Heating, Tools & Retail