Area Sales Manager Flooring

Area Sales Manager Flooring
Job Title: Contract Sales Representative Flooring
Industry Sector: Architects, Interior Designers, Specifiers, End Users, Healthcare, Education, Social Housing, Housing Associations, Flooring Contractors and Flooring Distributors
Areas to be covered: South Wales & Herefordshire
Remuneration: £36,000-£38,000. + up to £6,000 Commission
Benefits: Fully Expensed Car & Full Benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager Flooring Solutions will involve:
Field sales position, selling our clients manufactured range of floor coverings including: safety flooring, resilient flooring (smooth), heterogeneous flooring (smooth) and LVT (luxury vinyl tile)
80-85% of your time winning specifications with architects & interior designers, but also other specifiers such as capital project teams within healthcare, education and social housing/ housing associations
Remainder of your time managing the relationships with the substantial amount of flooring contractors and flooring distributors on the area (topping up shade cards within distribution trade counters, dealing with complaints etc.)
Inheriting an area with a circa £3.5m turnover, currently performing in line with budget
90%+ of your time will be winning projects within existing relationships
Small amount of time will be focused on new business/ new customer relationships
Projects can vary in size from a small refurbishment of only £2,000 up to new build hospital which could be as much as £1m
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager Flooring Solutions with:
Ideally flooring field sales experience (open to distribution field sales experience)
Specification field sales experience is not essential as can be taught
Open to interior building product backgrounds such as; fabric, wall coverings, flooring, partitioning, ceilings, lighting and all other aesthetically pleasing interiors
Willing to listen and learn
Preferably moldable
Consultative approach
Ability to handle projects from inception right through to completion
Understanding of design, flair and creativity
IT literate
The Company:
Est. 100 years+
300+ Employees
£100m+ turnover
Family run

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: Safety flooring, resilient flooring, heterogeneous flooring, l ino (Linoleum) and Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) and Static Control flooring systems, f looring, interior furnishing, wooden floor, acoustic floor, vinyl floor, laminate floor, LVT, safety floor, carpet, safety flooring, wall panels and other interior building products

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