Area Sales Manager

Salary: £36,000 per year

Area Sales Manager

London and surrounding areas

£30k and OTE of £55k uncapped

I am working with a leading supplier of capital equipment to the waste/resource sector. They have the opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join their commercial team in the South East.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a field-based sales role, developing a sales strategy to acquire new business selling capital equipment within the waste/recycling sector. This is a high volume, fast paced, targeted role so you must work effectively and efficiently in this type of environment. You will have a New Business target to hit every period so your drive to achieve this should be unwavering. You will also be required to renew, upgrade and manage customers’ accounts to ensure that business delivers a best in class service. You will have an outgoing personality and be self-motivated, with the ability to bring positive energy and focus to your team and colleagues across the business.

Your main responsibilities will be but not limited to; Hunting for new customers through own lead generation and cold calling; Conducting customer appointments; Negotiating and closing deals with their diverse customer base; Managing existing customer accounts; Communicating with internal business colleagues; Execute the company’s sales strategy that result in exceptional customer experience.

In order to be considered you will have; A talent and successful track record of securing New Business out in the field; Experience in selling multiple products and services across several sectors; Tenacity, drive, self-motivation, and competitive nature; Bias for action, independent and confident; Experience in a waste, recycling, or similar industry; experience using CRM (Salesforce) and a good level of IT proficiency.