Area Sales Manager

We are working with an extremely well-known, industry leading organisation on the lookout for an Area Sales Manager to cover Wales and the GL/BS postcodes. This is an extremely exciting time to join a growing team within a fantastic company.

The successful candidate will be selling into retail showrooms, merchants and trade counters to an existing customer base with the aim of further developing the brand, taking market share and increasing sales revenue, whilst targeting new customers without compromising existing relationships.

This person needs to be self-driven, proactive and results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on quality and business profit. A natural forward-planner who critically assesses own performance. This individual must be sufficiently mobile and flexible to travel throughout the area, with the potential for up to a few days a month away, usually within the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

* Maintain accurate records of all pricings, sales and activity reports; create planning reports/documents using spreadsheets

* Build strong deep-seated relationships with targeted accounts and build loyalty to the brand through that relationship

* Develop a call cycle within the area to ensure key group branches are visited and all displays and merchandising areas are clean, tidy and up to date

* Review and amend the trading strategy to ensure the company has good penetration of the m...