Sales Manager / Product Manager

Sales & Product Manager (Leisure) – OptiFuel, OptiPower & Silky Brands

Location: Preferably North West but not necessary.

Salary: Circa £32,000, 25 days Holiday, Company car, and pension scheme.

The role of Sales Manager / Product Manager:

The role involves maintaining and growing our established sales channels across existing  sectors and into new markets (eg, Europe). The candidate will be able to identify new product opportunities and investigate new/alternative routes to market. To provide resellers with support at trade shows, retail shows and assist distributors to manage these events, ie, some weekend working maybe required.

The ideal Sales Manager / Product Manager:

The successful candidate will facilitate excellent customer care commensurate with a premium branded portfolio, demonstrate a good standard of personal presentation and oral articulation.  Candidates need to possess a logical and methodical mindset and experience in the aero-modelling/leisure market or B2B distribution would be advantageous. Full product specific training will be provided.

Candidates will require basic computer literacy and be familiar with Microsoft windows based software. Occasional nights away from home will be required.

Clean driving license preferred.

The Company:

A well-established chemical manufacturing company in business for more than forty-five years. In 2004 the company entered the leisure market with an updated Silky Leisure (caravans and RVs) & Silky Marine (boats) product portfolio. In 2007 the company entered the aero - modelling world with OptiFuel followed shortly after by OptiPower. The company is now one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of these products.