Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products

Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Area to be covered: North and Midlands

Basic Salary: DOE Neg.

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve:

• Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of sawn timber including; carcassing timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, block wood, kiln dried decking and fencing timber
• Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
• Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
• Dealing with order values from £12k - £250k
• Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts
• Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin
• Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts
• Responsible for 100m cubic meters of materials

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Timber and Construction Products experience with:

• Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
• Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, more importantly dealing with the buying groups and buying group members
• Dealing with order values up to £250k
• Interpersonal skills
• Autonomous
• Great relationship builder/ account development skills

The Company:

• Est. 20 years+
• Circa £10m turnover
• 50+ employees
• Privately held

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumbar, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

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.