Area Sales Manager - Sunderland, United Kingdom - BMS

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    • World renowned brand & market leader in the plumbing & heating sector
    • Excellent career progression opportunity
    • Working with national & independent wholesalers in the North East & Cumbria
    • Field sales position targeting plumbing contractors to generate demand
    • Top product & brand in the plumbing & heating world

    Area Sales Manager

    The Role: As an Area Sales Manager you will be covering the North East & Cumbria area and your role will be targeting Plumbing Contractors across the region and selling a superb range of pumps, valves, temperature control and push-fit piping products via your Merchant & Wholesale channel partners. These would find themselves in commercial buildings, domestic settings, and high-rise accommodation applications. You will build local relationships with contractors whilst ensuring your channel partners are very well looked after and serviced. 50% of your time will be account management which is more with the merchants, 50% will be generating demand with the end user contractors. This part of the role is activity driven, hosting trade-mornings in branches, 'skip chasing' projects on the ground, and training Branch staff in your product lines. This is an exciting, varied, and rewarding sales role for a major British manufacturing powerhouse.

    The Company: Our client is one of the world leaders in the plumbing & heating arena. They have built on last year's success and are looking forward to 2024 and the market opening up. They are a business with a lot of knowledge and expertise and are looking to enhance that in the Sales Team. This is a rare opportunity to come in at this level and they have a culture of developing people and pride themselves on longevity of staff and the training they put their people through.

    We are looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:

    • Have a good B2B sales track record, either internally or externally
    • A hunger, drive, and desire to win new business with contractors & installers
    • Have exposure to the plumbing & heating market
    • Strong communication and presentation skills
    • Have sold to, or worked for, merchants in the past would be advantageous
    • Activity & target driven
    • Full & Clean Driving licence

    Candidate Location: Newcastle, Middlesborough, Sunderland, Durham, Carlisle

    Salary: £35k- 45k DOE + 15% bonus + Car + Pension + 25 days holiday