Area Sales Manager – LVT & Carpet
Job Title: Area Sales Manager – LVT & Carpet
Industry Sector: Flooring, Independent Retailers, Retail Showrooms, Flooring Retailers & Distributors, Carpet, LVT, Vinyl Flooring, Tufted Carpet
Areas to be covered: North East, Yorkshire & Cumbria (NE, CA, DL, DH, SR, TS, HG, YO, HU)
Remuneration: £33,000-£35,000 + £10,000-£17,000 Bonus
Benefits: Fully expensed car & full benefits
The role of the Area Sales Manager – LVT & Carpet will involve:
· Field sales position selling a mid to high end manufactured range of carpet and newly launched high quality range of LVT
· Selling into independent flooring retailers and distributors
· Responsible for circa 180 retail customers on patch
· £1.6m revenue responsibility
· Tasked with growing an area currently performing at 80% of budget expectation
· 90% account management, 10% new business development position
· Account sizes will vary from £5,000 per annum up to £70,000 per annum
· Supporting retail showrooms with merchandising
The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – LVT & Carpet with:
· Must have proven field sales experience with LVT luxury vinyl tile or carpet
· Must have sold into flooring retail showrooms
· 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 £25m UK turnover
Whilst we will always endeavour to respond to you, due to the high levels of applications we receive this isn’t always possible. If you are not contacted within 5 working days, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted for this role.
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: Tufted Carpet, Luxury Vinyl Tile, Flooring Retailers, Vinyl, Safety Flooring, Resilient Flooring, Carpet Tile, LVT, Interiors, Flooring, Wall Coverings and other Interior Finishes
