Sales Office Manager - Building Materials

Role: Sales Office Manager - Construction Materials

Location: Nottingham

Sector: Building / Construction Supplies

Package: Up to 48,000 plus bonus (up to 15% of salary)

With branches across the UK, our client is a National distributor of products into the construction sector.

Dealing with contractors and merchants, they are currently looking to recruit an experienced Sales Office Manager to oversee and develop an internal sales team of 4 staff, based from their site in Nottingham.

Key responsibilities:

Reporting to the General Manager, the Sale Office Manager will be responsible for the following areas:

• Achieve and maintain sales and margin targets
• Maintain and develop trading with target accounts, both new and existing, within agreed sectors
• Develop sales by pricing and negotiating competitively for work, making best use of trade leads, project-tracking information, and local knowledge
• Promotion of new products to existing and target client base
• Plan sales activities effectively and efficiently using project-tracking, and trade leads
• Plan product promotions with suppliers to achieve branch targets
• Report commercial activities, maintaining customer records, reporting and monitoring progress towards agreed objectives
• Lead, manage and motivate employees including employee training needs
• Conduct regular team meetings
• Maintain up-to-date product knowledge in liaison with suppliers and undertake training where necessary

Key attributes:

• Customer focused
• Strong communication and negotiation
• Results focused
• Relationship builder
• Detail conscious
• Personable
• Commercially astute

Skills:

• Sales
• Customer service and people management experience
• Numerate
• Literate
• IT knowledge (MS office)

Package:

• Starting basic of up to 48,000 dependent upon experience
• Fantastic company bonus scheme of up to 15% of salary
• Company pension contributions & life assurance plan
• Generous holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays

If your currently working in a Sales Management role within the building supply / merchant sector, with experience of managing annual budgets of 5-10m, please apply online, and we'll be in touch to discuss further.

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