Area Sales Manager - Stoves and Fireplaces
Mitchell Maguire
Oxford, GB
Area Sales Manager - Stoves and Fireplaces Job Title: Southern Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning StovesIndustry Sector: Wood Burning Stoves, Limestone Fireplaces, Domestic Solid Fuel, Secondary Heating, Fireplace Retail Showrooms, Plumbing & Heating Merchants and Electrical Wholesalers Area to be covered: South - (South of a line from Gloucester to Kings Lynn) Remuneration: £45,000 + £12,000-£15,000 Commission Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits packageThe role of the Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning Stoves will involve: Field sales position selling our clients manufactured range of domestic solid fuel stove ranges Selling into an established network of retail fireplace specialist showrooms Initially responsible for circa 130 retail showroom accounts with a turnover of approx. £1.8m 80-90% account management/ account development role, huge opportunity for growth as the South East and South West have the highest concentration of wood burners in the UK (North West region has a turnover of £3m) 10-20% of your time weeding out poor performing accounts and replacing these with new independent retailers Fireplace retailers vary in size from £20,000 to £250,000 turnover Working in conjunction with a field sales person promoting our clients range of gas and electric fires Promoting products and obtaining display space Developing relationship with independent retail managers/ owners 1st month will be heavily product training centric (conducted by Stoves sales Director) The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Wood Burning Stoves with: Must have field sales experience within the independent retail showroom market Experience selling into installers and trade shops may be beneficial for future business development Ideally sold associated products to stoves or fireplace, heating products etc. Technical sales capability (may consider KBB product sales backgrounds with strong technical capability and strong customer base experience) Team player, self-motivated comfortable with lone working and occasional overnight stays Knowledge of different sales techniques and pipeline management "Roll sleeves up" mentality The Company: Est. 30 Years+ £15m turnover+ One of the largest and friendliest companies operating in the domestic secondary heating and fireplace market 50+ employees Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Field Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within: Wood Burning Stoves, Limestone Fireplaces, Domestic Solid Fuel, Secondary Heating, Fireplace Retail Showrooms, Plumbing & Heating Merchants and Electrical Wholesalers