National Sales Manager

National Sales Manager – Travis Perkins Hire

National Role | Full-time | Competitive Package + Car

We’re strengthening our Travis Perkins Hire business and building a team to win new customers, re-engage lapsed accounts and unlock major growth opportunities. To support this, we’re looking for a National Sales Manager who can lead a sales team, drive strategic growth and make a real commercial impact.

If you’re passionate about sales leadership, love working with customers and thrive in a fast-paced merchanting environment, this could be the opportunity for you.

As National Sales Manager, you’ll lead a team of around eight people to drive revenue, improve margins and build strong customer relationships across our Hire and Hire Waste offering. Your focus will be on:

• Re-engaging unmanaged and lapsed customers
• Winning new business from competitors
• Supporting external sales and specialist teams across the Group
• Redefining the customer proposition for Hire customers
• Delivering strong revenue, utilisation and margin performance

This role sits within our newly formed Central Hire Sales Team, an exciting environment where you’ll help shape the customer strategy and support new branch openings, blitz activity and competitive market responses.

You will:

• Lead and motivate your team to deliver against key targets and KPIs
• Engage directly with customers to build relationships and generate sales
• Win back lapsed accounts and secure new opportunities from competitors
• Collaborate with internal and external sales colleagues to maximise growth
• Use data and insight to drive commercial decisions and improve performance
• Ensure a brilliant customer experience at every touchpoint
• Manage a portfolio worth up to £20m across the team

This is a visible, influential role where you’ll work closely with branches, specialist businesses and suppliers to deliver outstanding outcomes for customers and commercial results for the business.

What we’re looking for

You’ll fit this role if you’re:

• Brilliant with customers
• Commercially sharp and data-led
• Motivated by targets and results
• Skilled at influencing at all levels

You’ll also need:

• Proven sales and negotiation experience
  
  Strong relationship-building skills (branch, customer & senior management)
• The ability to plan, organise and think strategically
• A full UK driving licence (national travel required)

Hire experience and previous sales experience in a merchanting environment would be a real advantage, but we’re open to great sales leaders from similar sectors.

This is a high-impact role with:

• A strong team ready to be led to the next level
• A customer base with huge reactivation and growth potential
• A national remit with support from a well-established Group
• Opportunities to shape sales strategy and customer proposition
• A culture of safety, teamwork and continuous improvement

We’ll also give you the tools, support and autonomy you need to succeed.

If you’re commercially minded, customer-obsessed and love the thrill of unlocking growth, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and help us take Travis Perkins Hire to the next level.