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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 lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber
Area to be covered: Northern Ireland + Louth, Monaghan, Donegal & Cavan
Salary: £60,000-£65,000 Negotiable/ dependent on experience
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 sawn timber including; carcassing timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, block wood, kiln dried decking and fencing timber
- 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 circa 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, typically 6 customer calls per day
- Contributing towards 120,000 cubic meters of material sales (50%+ of this will be managed by the internal team at head office)
- Two-three overnight stays per month dependent on location
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 into builders merchants, timber merchants or buying group members
- Dealing with order values up to €250,000
- Interpersonal skills
- Autonomous
- Great relationship builder/ account development skills
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 lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber
