Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager (Field Based)
Territory: South East
Basic salary circa £27,600 – £36,000Dependent on Experience
Company Car, Mobile Phone, Ipad & excellent benefits including generous annual leave, pension and healthcare plan

The Opportunity
This is an outstanding opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join a UK market leading business with dynamic products backed up by strong customer service and customer satisfaction. The Area Sales Manager will manage an existing customer portfolio across the South East as well as taking responsibility for bringing in new business. The business offers a range of innovative and cost effective protection solutions for door and frame protection systems.

The Role
Covering the wider South East region, this is a full sales-cycle role, whereby you will be inheriting an existing client base but you shall also have a target to meet in terms of additional ‘new client’ acquisition. Typically targeting businesses within the Health Care, Mental Health and Construction sectors, you will use a consultative approach to understand customer needs and provide a tailored solution that is designed fit for purpose. Specifically you will;
Develop the sales and pipeline of projects in the territory
Maintain sales margins at the required levels
Develop new market areas
Win market share
Effectively maintain the CRM database
Report into the National Sales Manager

Do you have the correct profile?
Applications will be considered from those able to demonstrate the ability to develop business in line with strategy within a B2B environment. You do not have to have field based experience but an absolute understanding and willingness to work in a field based role must be displayed. You must have experience of selling products ideally into the construction or healthcare sector.
You will be asked to talk through achievements and performance against set sales targets and objectives. You must be able to demonstrate using effective sales techniques to both win new business and successfully develop existing accounts by cross selling and up selling.
As this role is covering the wider South East area, you must be based somewhere ‘on patch’ within the region. A full UK driving licence is essential.

The Rewards
Basic annual salary is within the £27,600 – £36,000per annum basic salary range. Additional bonus is also achievable and dependent on experience. There are excellent Benefits including: Expensed company car, mobile phone, Ipad, company pension, 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays & rising with service), cash health care plan and development opportunities.

How to apply/Next Steps
Please apply directly online to this advert enclosing an up to date CV and indication of your salary expectations. Suitable direct applicants can expect to receive an initial phone from an EdgeSR consultant, normally within 1-2 working days. Subject to our qualification process, shortlisted applicants will then be submitted to our client. The client is seeking to arrange interviews swiftly at a regional location, this with a view to securing a swift appointment.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within three working days maximum. If you do not hear back from us within this period, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful (due to extremely large volumes of online applicant traffic in the current climate we are unfortunately unable to respond to all applications).