Mitchell Maguire HIRING FOR Area Sales Manager – Plumbing, Drainage and Builders Merchants AT EH1, York Place, City of Edinburgh Full Time

Area Sales Manager – Plumbing, Drainage and Builders Merchants

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Plumbing, Drainage and Builders Merchants

Industry Sector: Gravity Fed Drainage Systems, Plumbing and Drainage, Builders Merchants, Civil Merchants, Drainage Merchants, Plumbers Merchants, Building Contractors, House Builders and Developers

Area to be covered: East Scotland

Remuneration: £40,000-£42,000 Neg. + Lunch Allowance + up to £15,000 Bonus

Benefits: Fully Expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Plumbing, Drainage and Builders Merchants will involve:

• Field sales role, selling company’s manufactured range of gravity fed above and below ground drainage systems, including; underground drainage, rainwater guttering and soil and waste drainage systems
• 50% of your time building relationships with building contractors and various small to medium sized builders and developers (looking to grow house builder customer base)
• 50% back selling through independent builders merchants & civil merchants and independent plumbers merchants (approx. 40-50 accounts in total)
• Inheriting a territory which is currently 50%+ up on last year
• Revenue responsibility of circa £2.3m last year
• Inheriting a territory, with huge potential for growth
• 60% new business development (predominantly with the housebuilders and building contractors), 40% account management role (managing the builders merchants)

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Plumbing, Drainage and Builders Merchants with:

• Must have sold to (or worked for) a builders merchant, plumbers merchant or civil merchant
• Open to a field sales representative, branch manager or trade counter representative that has worked for a builders merchant, plumbers merchant or civil merchant
• Ideally have 2-3 years proven field sales territory management experience
• Specific knowledge of gravity fed above and below ground drainage applications such as underground drainage, rainwater guttering and soil and waste drainage systems is not required
• Plumbing, drainage or heating field sales experience is not essential, our client is open to many different heavy-side and/or light-side building product backgrounds
• Ideally with experience of building relationships with building contractors, house builders or developers
• CRM proficient, high level of ability in terms of numeracy, IT capability, communication & organisational skills
• Go getter with raw enthusiasm

The Company:

• 500+ employees
• British company
• 100m+ turnover
• Large independent manufacturer

If your experience matches the requirements above please do not hesitate to contact Mitchell Maguire on (phone number removed) or simply apply by forwarding us a copy of  your CV. Whilst we will always endeavour to respond to you, due to the high levels of applications we receive this isn’t always possible. If you are not contacted within 5 working days, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted for this role.

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: Gravity Fed Drainage Systems, Soil & Waste, Above Ground Drainage, Below Ground Drainage, Ventilation, Heating, Hot & Cold water, Commercial Boilers, Heat Pumps, Biomass, Renewable, HVAC, HVCA, M&E, Local Authorities, Specifiers, M&E Consultants and Mechanical Engineers and other plastic piping systems