Area Sales Manager – Plumbing and Heating
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £40000 – £45000/annum + 25% Bonus
Area Sales Manager – Plumbing and Heating
Job Title: Territory Sales Manager – Plumbing & Heating/ Building Services
Industry Sector: HVAC, M&E Contractors, HIU, Heat Interface Unit, Underfloor Heating, Plumbing Pipes & Fittings, Pre-Insulated Pipework, Domestic plumbing, heating, pipework, building services, M&E contractors, local house builders, D&B Contractors, plumbing and heating merchants
Area to be covered: Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, BA, DT & Channel Islands
Remuneration: £40,000 – £45,000 + 25% Bonus
Benefits: Fully expensed Car or Car Allowance & Full Benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager Plumbing & Heating/ Building Services will involve:
* Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of plumbing pipes and fittings, underfloor heating, pre-insulated pipework and heat interface units HIU
* 35-40% new business development with main contractors, M&E contractors, renewable installer and other plumbing & heating contractors
* 25% of your time winning new specification with M&E consultants (ideally conducting a CPD presentation per month) and D&B contractors
* 20% of your time managing existing relationships with M&E contractor customer base
* 15-20% of your time back selling through circa 4 commercial and 150 domestic plumbing and heating merchants
* Inheriting an area achieving approx. £200,000-£250,000 turnover per month (65% domestic, 35% commercial)
* Currently running above budget expectation (minimum 10% growth each of the last 3 years)
* 4 customer visits per day, 4 days per week
* Typical order values £5,000-£10,000+
* 60% account development, 40% new business prospecting
* Typical projects include nursing homes, care homes, holiday homes, hotels, student accommodation, regional housebuilders etc
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Plumbing & Heating/ Building Services with:
* Plumbing and heating industry experience
* Ideally worked for or sold to plumbing and heating merchant
* Open to distribution background, looking for first field sales role
* Technical plumbing & heating associated field sales experience with contractors and specifiers is not essential
* IT Savvy, able to create journey plan
* No journeymen and stable career history
* Problem solver mentality/ can demonstrate initiative
* Ideally with knowledge of plumbing and heating products such as pipes & fittings, heat interface units, underfloor heating, pre-insulated pipework, building services etc
* Energetic self starter capable of handling multiple tasks to deadlines
* Calm trustworthy and professional approach, able to liaise with M&E consultants, D&B Contractors and other specifiers
The Company:
* 40+ employees
* £20m+ UK turnover
* Part of large European group
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: Plumbing, Pipe, Fittings, M&E, Pre-Insulated Pipe, Heating, Ventilation, Heat Interface Units, Air Conditioning, Building Services, Under Floor Heating, Sanitaryware, Boilers, Pipework, Fittings and all other HVAC associated sectors
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