Area Sales Manager – Door Hardware & Screens

Area Sales Manager – Door Hardware and Screens

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Door Hardware & Screens

Industry Sector: Doors and Windows, Door Hardware, Architectural Hardware, Folding Doors, Integrated Door Screens, Door Systems, Joinery OEMs, Joinery Manufacturers, Joiners, Joinery Dealers, architects, façade consultants and other specifiers

Area to be Covered: North & Scotland – ideally based M62

Remuneration: £44,000-£53,000 Neg. + Commission Scheme

Benefits: Car Allowance & Benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Door Hardware & Screens will involve:

• Field sales position selling a designed and manufactured range of door screens (for large openings) and architectural door hardware
• Door screens - Approx. 25% of your time focused on winning specifications with façade consultants with architects and 25% selling into specialist blind and curtain installers
• Remaining 50% of your time focused on selling our clients’ architectural hardware into joinery companies; joinery manufacturers, OEMs, fabricators, joiners etc.
• Supporting the existing UK sales representative by covering the North & Scotland (Scotland visits only 2/3 times per annum)
• Inhering a turnover of circa £500,000
• 50% of the role new business prospecting
• 50% managing our clients’ existing joinery customers (approx.. 200, although some of these have lacked dedicated field sales representation/ dormant)

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Door Hardware & Screens with:

• Must have B2B field sales experience with building products, window & doors, facades or related products, ideally joinery related
• Must have sold to contractors/ installers and distribution
• Ideally with some architectural/ façade consultant specification field sales experience
• New business orientated
• Technical understanding and a practical aptitude
• Joinery industry experience preferred
• Autonomous and proactive
• Consultative and empathetic

The Company:

• Part of a larger group
• Established in the UK over 20 years
• 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: Doors and Windows, Door Hardware, Architectural Hardware, Folding Doors, Integrated Door Screens, Door Systems, Joinery OEMs, Joinery Manufacturers, Joiners, Joinery Dealers, architects, façade consultants and other specifiers