Industrial Sales Account Manager

Salary: £28,800 – £36,000 per year

Are you looking for a sales account manager role with a difference? Maybe you want to work for a smaller company but with more responsibility? Maybe you want to grow your sales and build a team? If so, this role might be the career move you’ve been looking for.

The Industrial Sales Account Manager job is all about looking after and growing a set of existing clients across Greater Manchester and the North West.

Your relationship building skills, ability to ask the right questions and enthusiasm to grow the existing accounts without being afraid to seek out new accounts is what we are really looking for.

Your communication and rapport building skills are as vital as your attention to detail as you’ll need to listen to (and understand) what your clients wants and keep an eye on what parts they want/need whilst also think about what other products or services you can talk to them about.

Ultimately, we are looking for someone who enjoys and isn’t afraid of meeting new people, likes autonomy in a role and builds relationships easily. If this is you then this Industrial Sales Account Manager job may well be a very good fit.

Being good at prioritising workloads would be important too as it can get busy when you’re out on the road and there can be lots of customers to visit. There is also quite a wide variety of customers and product ranges to get to grips with.

this in mind, what you’ll need to be self-motivated, disciplined with your time and have the ability to work unsupervised when you’re out on the road and organised when you’re in the office.

Main duties to include:

* Managing and visiting an established, existing customer base

* Managing customer consignment stocks

* Agreeing sales, prices and payment terms with new customers

* Recording sales orders and enquiries and communicating them to the sales office

* Learn about and promote new products to customers

* Ensure existing customer are aware of full range of services available

* Monitor competitor activity

* Reporting weekly activity (using Spreadsheets)

* Serve on trade counter and answer sales calls in the office from time to time

We are looking for:

* Experience working within some form of sales or account management (or a genuine desire to get into this area)

* Knowledge within an industrial environment (fabrication, welding, cutting, grinding etc)

* The ability to take initiative to find out new contact information and where you might be able to offer more products/services to new or existing clients

* Someone who can build rapport and engage with both current and potential clients

* Self-motivated and can work under own steam with minimal supervision

* UK driving license

* Excellent telephone and face to face manner with the ability to speak with people at all levels and both large and small businesses

* Organised and methodical

* Happy to work in a small office environment when in the office

* Confident and personable manner

In return you can expect:

* Circa £24-£30k dependant on experience

* Hours: 42 hours per week (8.00am-5.30pm Mon-Thur, 5pm Fri)

* Team Bonus: Quarterly

* Benefits: Company van, mobile phone, 20 days holiday + stats, pension, free parking, canteen, working with great people that you can laugh with but still be serious enough to get the job done!

The role is to start in the New year but there is flexibility if the right person is available sooner.

If this job isn’t quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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