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Specification Sales Manager – Decorative Surfaces
Job Title: Specification Sales Manager – Decorative Surfaces
Industry Sector: Architects, Interior Designers, Shop Fitters, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Residential, Education, Student Accommodation, Laminate, HPL, High Pressure Laminate, Waterproof Shower & Bathroom Panels and Worktops
Area to be covered: Northern Ireland with occasional visits to the South
Remuneration: £55,000-£60,000 Neg. + 20% Bonus
Benefits: Car allowance & full benefits
The role of the Specification Sales Manager – Decorative Surfaces will involve:
- Field sales position selling a manufactured range of tabletop and door laminate (HPL – high pressure laminate), waterproof bathroom & shower wall panels and kitchen worktops and other decorate surfaces
- 40% of your time influencing and winning specifications with architects and interior designers
- Targeting hospitality (including student accommodation), healthcare, residential and education projects.
- 40% selling into cubicle, door and washroom manufacturer/ fabricator end users
- 20% account managing a few worktop retailers
- Targeted to grow specification projects by circa £1m and end user manufacturers/ fabricators by £1.5m
- Inheriting a specification pipeline of circa £10m (typical conversation rate is 30%)
- Conducting CPD seminars
- No dedicated field sales presence in Ireland, hence you will be effectively the commercial manager for the country
The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager – Decorative Surfaces with:
- Must have a proven track record in specification field sales with architects and interior designers
- Interior/ decorative product background
- New business orientated
- Ideally prior experience within hospitality (including student accommodation), healthcare, residential and education projects.
- Strategic thinker, comfortable dealing at Director level
- Ability to hit the ground running
- Looking for longevity in career
- Fantastic opportunity to develop professionally within a large global business
- Specific HPL – high pressure laminate, tabletop and door laminate, waterproof bathroom & shower wall panel and kitchen worktop industry knowledge is not essential
- Energy, passion and enthusiasm to work in a price orientated market
- Strong commercial, networking and CPD presentation skills
The Company:
- Est. in UK 25+ years
- Part of a $1bn+ global business
- 250+ UK employees
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: Architects, Interior Designers, Shop Fitters, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Residential, Education, Student Accommodation, Laminate, HPL, High Pressure Laminate, Waterproof Shower & Bathroom Panels and Worktops
