Area Hire Manager

Location Hamilton
Discipline: Sales & Commercial
Salary: £30,000 - 32,000
Job ref: 003842
Published: over 1 year ago

We’re looking for a hands-on, commercial and results driven sales manager who has a passion for business development, understanding clients’ needs and achieving orders, whilst delivering excellent customer service and clearly demonstrates our Company values.

 

You will develop and promote the Company’s hire business, to include our full range of products and services. The role is target driven and the key focus is on order winning activity.

Working alongside Commercial and Operations teams, the role holder will be a strong communicator with a teamwork ethic.

 

Role Details 

  • Salary: From £30,000 plus commission
  • Role based: Hamilton, Scotland (ML3 0EJ)
  • Contract type: Permanent, Full-Time
  • Annual leave: 25 plus bank holidays

Role Responsibilities

  • Accountable for the delivery of set targets for the year for a particular catchment area including contract value, order numbers and visits as well as other commercial KPI’s. 
  • Carry out structured business development, local and national campaigns, including “cold calling” within the area designated, in order to achieve order targets. 
  • Generate orders by attending Customer sites. 
  • Prepare quotations and drawings against customer requirements. 
  • Effectively use internal systems (e.g. SAP, CRM) to ensure customer information is kept up to date and systems are aligned. 

Benefits & Opportunities

  • Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
  • Working flexibly principles
  • Contributory pension
  • Commission
  • Company Car  
  • A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
  • Employee Assistance Program

There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin. Roughly one third of our roles are filled by internal candidates!

 

Our Ideal Candidate

 

We are looking for someone who has:

  • Proven commercial experience, including face to face sales experience and business development. 
  • Strong experience of carrying out business development activities (campaign calling and cold calling). 
  • Demonstrable ability to work independently and drive in new initiatives. 
  • Demonstrable B2B sales experience. 
  • Full UK driving licence. 

Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.

 

About Portakabin 

 

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 1,750 people across ten European countries.

 

Apply Now!

 

We’re keen to get someone started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.