Area Sales Manager Flooring

Position: Area Sales Manager – Flooring
Area Sales Manager – Flooring

Job Title:

Area Sales Manager – Flooring

Industry Sector:
Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring, Tufted Carpet and Engineered Wood

Areas to be covered:
North East, Yorkshire & Cumbria (TD, NE, CA, DL, DH, SR, TS, HG, YO, HU)

Remuneration: £38,000-£40,000 + £12,000-£15,000 Bonus

Benefits:
Fully expensed hybrid car & full benefits

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

* Field sales position selling a mid to high end manufactured range of carpet, as well as a quality range of LVT and engineered wood

* Selling into independent flooring retailers and distributors

* Responsible for circa 280 retail customers on patch

 * £4m revenue responsibility

* Tasked with growing an area currently performing well against budget

* 90% account management, 10% new business development position

* Account sizes will vary from £5,000 per annum up to £70,000 per annum (although 2 x multi million pound accounts on the area)

* Supporting retail showrooms with merchandising

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

* * Must have proven field sales experience with LVT luxury vinyl tile, carpet or wood flooring Must have sold into flooring retail showrooms or buying group members

* Must be comfortable selling POS (point of sale) displays

* Would consider flooring/ carpet retail showroom experience if can demonstrate strong determination and desire for a field sales role

* Comfortable with occasional overnight stays when required

* Self-motivated/ enthusiastic

* Commercially aware

* Ideally worked for a flooring manufacturer

The Company:

* * Part of a larger group

* Circa 50 UK employees

* Approx. £50m UK turnover

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:
Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Buying Group Members, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring and Tufted Carpet