Job Description:

Area Sales Manager – Wood Flooring and Laminate

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Wood Flooring and Laminate

Industry Sector: Flooring Accessories, Wooden Flooring, Laminate, SPC, Retail Showrooms, Flooring Shops, Trade Contractors, Installers and Fit-Out Contractors

Areas to be covered: South – South East focus

Remuneration: £40,000-£45,000 Neg. + 20% Bonus

Benefits: EV or van & full benefits

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

• Field sales role selling our clients distributed range of laminate, engineered hardwood flooring and SPC flooring
• 60% of your time focused on on-boarding a select number of flooring retail showrooms to work with our client on a n exclusive basis
• Ultimately building up the retail partnerships from a hand full to 50+
• 40% of your time stimulating demand for the product via trade flooring installers
• Our client is better known for flooring accessories such as sandpaper, adhesives, underlays etc. so an important aspect of the role will be to change the perception of business by the general public
• Responsible for the South with a turnover of circa £2.5m (although 50% of this revenue will be managed by head office in respect of the existing accessories portfolio)

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

• Ideally sold wood flooring or laminate
• Must have sold into retail showrooms and ideally flooring installers
• Ability to hit the ground running
• No journeymen/leaflet dropper
• Tonnes of hunger, energy and enthusiasm
• New business tenacity
• Network of contacts within existing flooring retailers/ shops may be advantageous
• Knows and understand the market

If your experience matches the requirements above please do not hesitate to contact Mitchell Maguire on (phone number removed) or simply apply by forwarding us a copy of  your CV. 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: Flooring Accessories, Wooden Flooring, Laminate, SPC, Retail Showrooms, Flooring Shops, Trade Contractors, Installers and Fit-Out Contractors