Account Manager – Wide Format Media
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £40000 – £45000/annum
Role: Account Manager – North of England
Reporting to: Sales Director
Location: Territory Based, home office set-up, Extensive travel required. The area includes: Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Derbyshire, Manchester, North Wales & Scotland.
Salary: £40K + Car Allowance + Commission
Main Responsibilities:
Account management of existing customers – building and developing existing client base – around 90% of the focus of the role.
Some New Business Sales – takes up around 10% of time.
Acquire and maintain sufficient knowledge of current product range in order to demonstrate products to clients and assess their needs and interest in order to advise on suitable products and endeavour to secure product orders.
Meeting and exceeding set sales targets
Fortnightly reporting to Sales Director, including but not limited to; updating news on the patch, reporting any issues to do with accounts/stock/distribution, information on competitors
Preparation of quotations for clients
Price Negotiation
Ensuring client information is updated into CRM database following client visits/calls by calling internal sales.
Identifying market trends and competitive information and feeding back said information to Sales Director.
Journey planning
Attending product training as required
Attendance of sales meetings as required
Other sales tasks as may be required from time to time.
Person Specification
Good planning, strategic and territory (including journey planning) and organisation skills
Excellent communicator
Sound listening skills
Self motivated
Good negotiator
Good long-term relationship builder
Confident
Good marketing expertise
Industry knowledge – having previously sold Wide Format Media
IT literate
Ideally located near the M62 corridor.
Package:
Competitive salary
Company car
Laptop and mobile phone
22 days holiday – increases to 25 days after 5 years service
Life assurance (4 times base salary paid out)
Pension up to 10% EE contributions after 5 years service
Private medical after 1 year
If you have the relevant Print Media Account Management and New Business sales experience for this role, please get in touch by applying within with your up to date CV.
KEY WORDS:
Account manager, Account management, business development manager, Print Supplies, Sales, Wide Format Media, Graphics, Large format, Wide Format
More Information
- Address Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West
