Specification Sales Manager – Bathrooms and Showers

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms & Showers

Job reference Number: 989797-9878-2678

Industry Sector: Shower Enclosures, Shower Trays, Bathrooms, Sanitaryware, Fittings, Hot & Cold water Social Housing, Housebuilders, Private Developers, Student Accommodation, Hotels, Plumbing and heating, Local Authorities, Housing Associations

Area to be covered: Greater London, Surrey, Kent & Sussex

Remuneration: £45,000-£50,000 + £5,000-£10,000 Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits package

The role of the Specification Sales Manager – Bathrooms & Showers will involve:

• Specification field sales led position, covering the South East
• Selling our client’s manufactured range of bathroom and showering products
• 30% winning specifications with architects, housebuilders, private developers, housing associations, local authorities, social housing and student accommodation developers
• 20% managing relationships with Installers/ plumbing contractors
• Remainder of time managing relationships with plumber’s merchants (35%) and bathroom retail showrooms (15%)
• Inheriting an area performing in line with budget expectations
• Typically 6 customer visits per day and visiting core customers on a 6 week sales cycle
• Following up on Glenigan leads
• Projects from small boutique housing developers (6 units) up to apartment hotels with 100+ rooms and housebuilders building 300 plots per year
• Increasing our client’s shower products brand awareness

The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager – Bathrooms & Showers with:

• Proven track record in bathroom associated specification field sales (open to sanitaryware, brassware, taps enclosures etc.)
• Must have some specification experience with; architects, housebuilders, private developers, housing associations, local authorities, social housing or student accommodation developers
• New business hunter
• Resilient personality