Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager – North Region

Are you an experienced and proactive field based sales professional within the building / construction / roofing sector, with superior relationship building skills? If you’d like to part of the continued success of a market leading business, then this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Calder Industrial Materials is a highly reputable manufacturing company with headquarters based in Chester, with significant experience delivering high quality, tailored solutions for a wide range of customers worldwide. Calder is one of the UK’s leading building materials suppliers, delivering lead sheet and a wide range of ancillary products to builders’ merchants nationwide. In addition, Calder is also the UK’s leading specialist in lead engineering. The company designs, manufactures and installs radiation shielding and other products in the nuclear, medical and other markets.

Reporting to the Commercial Director, as the Area Sales Manager for the North Region of the UK, you’ll work autonomously with your responsibilities, spanning: building relationships and management of existing and future customer base; developing value added business; back selling end user business to merchants; maintaining competitor awareness; and working closely with the wider Sales Team and other stakeholders to ensure continued improvement of customer service.

Your duties will include, although not be limited to;

• Visiting builders’ merchants within the region to maintain and build new relationships
• Maintaining and developing sales and margin levels with existing customer base
• Identifying new potential business opportunities on all products supplied
• Ensuring improvement of customer service delivery and developing value added business
• Developing end user business and back selling to stockists 
• Supporting business development strategy
• Liaising with Credit Controller to ensure the collection of outstanding debts 
• Maintaining awareness of competitor activities
• Liaising with the Accounts Team to ensure credit control guidelines are met
• Working to understand the full running of the commercial operations of the Building Products division

To be considered for this Area Sales Manager role you will have the following experience, skills, knowledge and attributes;

• Proven track record in delivering results and exceeding targets within a field based sales role in the building / construction / roofing sector 
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external contacts
• Forward thinking approach to work with a high level of self-motivation
• Excellent negotiation, time management, and organisational skills
• Team player within ability to work unsupervised using own initiative
• Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
• Superb communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• High level of numeracy and literacy
• Computer literacy
• Full UK driving licence

In return;

You’ll be part of a growing market leading business where your results will be noticed and well rewarded. 

Salary: £30,000 - £33,000 per annum, level dependent on experience

Additional Benefits: Company car, mobile phone, laptop, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and contributory pension scheme following successful probation period.

Hours of Work: Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (flexibility will be required to meet customer needs)

Contracted Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent 

Location: Field based covering the North UK Region (Scotland, North of England – Cumbria and North East). Locations covered include; Kendal, Carlisle, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Middlesbrough, Ayrshire, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Grampian, Strathclyde, Lothian, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Durham, Argyll and Highland. 

This Area Sales Manager vacancy is advertised by JVP Jobs on behalf of the employer Calder Industrial Materials. At JVP Jobs we believe in providing complete transparency for you the job seeker to help you make informed decisions. By applying for this role you are submitting your CV directly to our above named client. Please note that we DO NOT operate as a recruitment agency, all applications will be reviewed directly by the employer Calder Industrial Materials, and should they wish to progress your application further they will be in contact with you.

Calder Industrial Materials requests for no recruitment agency contact please.

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