Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms

Industry Sector: Bathrooms, Baths, Radiators, Mirrors, Accessories, Showers, Taps, WC’s & Bidets, Basins, Independent Retailers, Plumbers Merchants, Buying Groups, KBB and Bathroom Industry

Area to be covered: South East London, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent and east Sussex

Remuneration: £38,000 - £42,000 + up to £17,000 Commission

Benefits: Hybrid or electric car & benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms will involve:

• Field sales position selling our clients manufactured range of traditional bathrooms
• Responsible for 200+ active accounts, and another 200+ inactive/ dormant (50% Independent bathroom retailers, 30% buying group members and the remainder plumbers merchants and some national merchants)
• 80% of your time calling on independent bathroom retailers and showrooms within plumbers merchants
• 20% working with the field sales team of two large bathroom distributors on patch
• £2m ledger responsibility (50% sold to direct customers through the two distributors and 50% via the independent retail distribution channel)
• Account management led role
• Responsible for gaining commitment in respect of point of sale displays
• Inheriting an area achieving well against budget expectation
• Promoting three different ranges (2 x med-high end) and a more affordable luxury range

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Bathrooms with:

• 12 months+ field sales experience from the bathroom industry (open to KBB sector)
• Must have sold into independent retail showrooms, buying groups or plumbers merchants
• May be open to sales person who has worked for a bathroom showroom over a number of years
• Fire in the belly
• Capable of treating the area as if it was your own franchise/ business
• Autonomous in approach and excellent communicator
• Good presentation skills

The Company:

• Est. 20 years+
• £100m+ turnover
• 200+ Employees

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within: Bathroom Retail Showrooms, Buying Groups, Plumbers Merchants, KBB and Bathroom Industry, Taps, Showers, WC’s & Bidets, Basins, Radiators, Mirrors, Furniture, Brassware, Sanitaryware, Fittings, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Boilers, Renewable and all other Plumbing and Heating associated sectors