Commercial Sales Manager

Commercial Sales Manager for Outdoor Sports & Play

Competitive + Bonus + Package

Lancashire and Cheshire

Our client is a privately owned collection of individual companies with a shared vision to build a better world by creating stimulating and functional outdoor spaces. They hold a firm belief that investing in well-designed unrestricted urban spaces is vitally important to improve health and wellbeing for the future.

Serving the construction sector and offering a "one stop shop" service for outdoor spaces, our client is synonymous with high quality external furniture, and they provide a range of street furniture, playground elements and associated services to the public realm, commercial and educational schemes throughout the UK with the capabilities to offer solutions ranging from park benches to £150k contracts.

With high demand across the business, a fantastic opportunity has developed for a highly driven, Commercial Sales Manager to join the organisation within the Sports & Play division.

As Commercial Sales Manager you will be playing a pivotal role in our clients future growth plans by Converting sales leads into tender opportunities and subsequently into client orders to business strategy by working with an existing and new clients. Working alongside the Saes Director, you will be responsible for nurturing and growing the existing territory, specifically focusing on the Outdoor Sport and Play sector.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong sales process and pipeline management skills. Ideally across outdoor sports, playgrounds or street furniture sectors.
• Ability to prospect effectively to source new business and opportunities.
• Strong negotiating skill to ensure mutually beneficial agreements are made.
• Ability to establish a strong rapport and understanding of customer needs specifically focusing on education, local authorities, parish councils, landscape architects, contractors and housing developers.

Interested parties should apply accordingly or contact Dan Hibbert in the first instance. Contact details can be found via the Newman Stewart website.

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