Area Sales Manager in Swindon, Wiltshire

Area Sales Manager | Premium Bathrooms

£50,000 Basic + Uncapped OTE + Hybrid Company Car

Area: Wiltshire, Somerset, Hampshire & Dorset

The Role – Area Sales Manager | Premium Bathrooms

Are you an established field sales professional with experience in bathrooms, KBB, interiors or merchant sales?

Looking for an opportunity to represent a premium brand, take ownership of an established territory and significantly grow its commercial potential?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market-leading bathroom manufacturer with an enviable reputation, premium product portfolio and a well-established network of showroom and merchant accounts.

With a basic salary of up to £50,000, uncapped earning potential and a hybrid company car, this role offers the opportunity to build on an established customer base rather than spend your time chasing cold prospects.

The Role – Area Sales Manager

• You will take full ownership of an established territory covering Wiltshire, Somerset, Hampshire and Dorset, developing relationships and maximising the potential of existing bathroom studios, showrooms and merchant accounts.
• Approximately 95% of your time will be spent developing existing customers, with a clear focus on increasing account value, product penetration and brand presence.
• Developing and growing an established portfolio of bathroom studios, showrooms and merchants.
• Increasing spend within existing accounts by introducing additional product categories and expanding product ranges.
• Negotiating increased showroom display space and securing additional product listings.
• Working closely with showroom owners, managers and sales teams to maximise product visibility and sell-through.
• Identifying opportunities to increase market share and improve account profitability.

• Building strong commercial relationships and becoming a trusted partner to your customers.

• Taking ownership of your territory, planning your activity and driving sustainable year-on-year growth.

• This is a genuine account development role where the emphasis is on building relationships, growing existing business and maximising the potential of quality accounts.

The Company 

Our client is a market-leading premium bathroom manufacturer that has achieved sustained year-on-year growth and established itself at the forefront of its sector.

Their products sit at the premium end of the market and are distributed through a carefully selected network of independent bathroom studios, showrooms and merchants.

This is a brand with genuine showroom appeal, an established market presence and a product range that retailers want to display and recommend.

You'll be joining a successful and growing business that recognises the importance of its field sales team and gives its people the autonomy to develop their territories and maximise their potential.

The Candidate– Area Sales Manager

We are interested in hearing from commercially driven field sales professionals who enjoy developing existing accounts and building long-term customer relationships.

• Proven field sales or territory management experience.
• Experience within bathrooms, KBB, sanitaryware, brassware or interiors.
• Alternatively, experience selling lightside construction products, interiors or associated building products.
• Experience selling through bathroom showrooms, studios, builders' merchants or plumbers' merchants.
• A strong track record of growing existing accounts and increasing customer spend.
• The commercial confidence to negotiate product listings, ranging decisions and additional showroom display space.
• A relationship-led approach with the ability to influence business owners and showroom teams.
• Most importantly, you will be someone who understands that the real opportunity in field sales isn't simply winning another account – it's maximising the potential of the customers you already have.

The Package on offer for the Area Sales Manager

• Basic salary - up to £50,000.

• Uncapped OTE: Approximately ££65,000 uncapped paid quartlery

• Hybrid company car

• 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Stakeholder pension scheme.

• Company mobile phone and laptop.

Interested?

If you are an experienced Area Sales Manager, Territory Sales Manager or Account Manager with a background in bathrooms, KBB, interiors or merchant sales, this is an opportunity worth exploring.

You will be representing a premium brand, managing established relationships and developing a territory with significant potential.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Ref: CPJ1890

Sectors of interest: Bathrooms, KBB, Sanitaryware, Brassware, Interiors, Lightside, Showroom Sales, Retail Account Management, Builders' Merchants, Plumbers' Merchants, Field Sales, Area Sales, Territory Sales.