Area Sales Manager – Heating & Ventilation

Exeter, Devon
Mitchell Maguire

Area Sales Manager – Heating and Ventilation

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Heating & Ventilation

Industry Sector: Social Housing, Showering, Panel Heaters, Water Heating, Ventilation, Instant Hot Water, Renewable products, HVAC, Electric Heating, Renewable Energy, Social Housing, Housing Associations, Local Authorities, Electrical Wholesale, Builders Merchants, Domestic Ventilation, M&E Contractors, Electrical Contractors/ Installers

Area to be covered: South West (TA, DT, EX, TQ, PL, TR)Remuneration: £42,500-£50,000 Neg. + 20% BonusBenefits: Fully expensed hybrid car or £450 per month car allowance + full benefits packageThe role of the Area Sales Manager – Heating & Ventilation will involve:

• Field sales position selling our clients manufactured range of heating and ventilation products
• Targeting social housing
• Day to day transactional role
• 60% of your time key account managing the top 25-30 electrical wholesalers on the area (remaining 200+ electrical wholesalers and merchants on the area will be managed by our client’s internal sales team)
• Typically visited on a 6 week call cycle
• Accounts will vary in size from £50,000-£500,000
• 40% of your time stimulating demand for our clients products within 10-15 key social housing accounts per week
• Creating demand, via social housing projects, through electrical contractors/ installers and smaller M&E contractors and smaller social housing providers
• Inheriting an area with a turnover of approx. £7m, currently performing in line with budget expectation
• Typically 15 customer visits per week
• Responsible for delivering regional strategies in line with overall business strategy and objectives

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Heating & Ventilation with:

• A proven track record of field sales within the heating and ventilation industry
• You must have successfully created demand with electrical or M&E contactors and fulfilled via distribution, ideally electrical wholesalers
• A track record of having worked on social housing projects is desirable but not essential
• Knowledge of electrical heating products may be advantageous
• Open to an ex electrician, contractor/ installer background
• Good negotiation and customer management skills
• Positive can-do attitude
• Team player

The Company:

• Market leading manufacturer
• Includes household/ brand names in the portfolio
• £100m+ turnover
• Part of a large global group

If your experience matches the requirements above please do not hesitate to contact Mitchell Maguire, 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: Social housing, housing associations, local authorities, electrical contractors and electrical wholesalers, heating, hot water, showering, ventilation products storage heaters, panel heaters, convectors, electric fires, commercial boilers, heat pumps, biomass, renewable, solar thermal systems, heat emitters, HVAC, M&E, and specifiers