National Sales Manager - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Cavendish Maine Recruitment

Cavendish Maine Recruitment
Cavendish Maine Recruitment
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Job Title:
National Sales Manager

Location:
Nationwide

Job Sector:
Floorcoverings

Salary:
£60,000, Bonus, Great Benefits, Car

Job

Reference:
RC/4003

About the Company:

Do you want to work for an iconic niche brand with an enviable history of stunning products and sales success?


My client, is a highly regarded brand of premium quality wool and nylon carpets with a unique styling to transform any living space.

The brand sits in the 'designer' product category and leads through colour and design.

The company provides quality, choice and availability to Retailers, Designers & Contractors across the UK. This is all underpinned by an in-house distribution fleet, enabling first-class customer service and responsive delivery.


About the Role:


  • We are looking for a National Sales Manager to take on this wellestablished brand and drive sales through a network of Sales Agents.
  • You will inherit a significant customer base of Independent Retailers, Designers and Contractors and the goodwill and relationships enjoyed by the company.
  • Whilst they have a strong and enviable reputation in the market today there's no room for complacency. The goal is to grow business with new and existing customers.
  • As retail and market trends evolve, your role will be to keep at the forefront of those spotting and leveraging opportunities to grow sales with existing products and customers; and proactively creating openings to list new products and bring new customerson board.
  • You will need to leverage your commerciality, customer relationship building skills, tenacity and drive to build and grow the business.

Specifically, You Will Be Responsible For:

  • Managing a team of Agents to achieve sales revenue and margin targets.
  • Building relationships with new and existing customers; advising and influencing them to grow sales.
  • Cleverly utilising sampling and displays to introduce customers to new products and ranges and drive incremental sales.
  • Ensure the team work with parameters of company price lists and terms and conditions.
  • Manage and maintain customer specific price files.
  • Personally managing a selection of key accounts.
  • Submitting weekly and/or monthly reports as required.
  • Maintaining regular communication with line manager and other departments as required, i.e. product and innovation, marketing, supply chain.
  • Ensuring timely delivery of any customer complaints to customer service department.

Key Skills/Experience Required:


  • We're looking for a sales professional who shares our passion for the floor covering sector; its products and trends.
  • You'll need to have the tenacity, enthusiasm and cando attitude to take this amazing brand and build both excitement and commitment amongst customers.
  • Being out on the road means you'll need to be selfreliant and selfmotivated, but we'd like you to be a great team player too
  • We have a strong team ethos and encourage all colleagues to work together to provide the best experience for our customers.

In Particular You'll Bring:


  • Sales management experience.
  • Previous experience within the UK flooring industry, in the field sales sector.
  • Individual sales success in a retail, wholesale or other customerfacing role.
  • A skill set for coaching and training others.
  • An impressive track record of driving sales via a consultativeselling approach.
  • Strong organisation skills and experience of working with CRM or similar systems.
  • A strong work ethic and a passion for exploring new opportunities to build business.
  • Strong numerical reasoning.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Salary:

- £60,000, Bonus, Great Benefits, Car


Contact:

Russell Cripps


Reference:
RC/4003

In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.
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