Area Sales Manager – Bathroom Brassware in Glasgow

Area Sales Manager Bathroom Brassware

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Bathroom Brassware

Industry Sector: KBB, Bathrooms, Bathroom Taps, Brassware, Showers, Sanitaryware, Tapware, Independent Bathroom Retailers, Plumbers Merchants and Buying Groups

Area to be covered: Scotland & Ireland

Remuneration: £45,000 neg. + £10,000 Uncapped Commission

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager Bathroom Brassware will involve:

• Field sales position, promoting a distributed range of bathroom taps, showers, accessories and fittings
• Selling into independent bathroom retailers and buying groups; NBG, Fortis, IPG, Bathcom and UKPS
• One week I six spent in Ireland
• Ireland had about 20 shops and a turnover of £(phone number removed), no need to recruit any more bathroom retailers, Scotland £150,000 about 20-30 trading accounts but needs to grow to circa 100-120 bathroom retailers
• 50% new business development, you will be expected to recruit approx. 4 new bathroom retail showrooms/ buying group members per month (Scotland only)
• 50% account managing existing independent bathroom retailers/ buying group members
• Customer accounts typically turning over £5,000-£10,00 but can be much larger (£60,000+)
• Utilising your own retail showroom customer contacts as well as our clients lead via groups such as UK Plumbing Supplies, Bathcom, NBG, Fortis and IPG
• Required to conduct 5+ client meetings per day

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Bathroom Brassware with:

• Proven track record of field sales from within the bathroom industry
• Must have sold into bathroom retail showrooms/ plumbers merchants and buying group members e.g. (NBG, Fortis and lesser extent UKPS as well as MKM, Plumbase etc.
• New business and account management mentality
• Ideally with contacts within the independent bathroom retail/ buying group member communities
• Self motivated

The Company:

• Established 30 years
• £18m+ turnover
• Family run
• Privately held

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: KBB, Bathrooms, Bathroom Taps, Brassware, Showers, Plumbers Mercants, Sanitaryware, Tapware, Independent Bathroom Retailers and Buying Groups