We're looking for a hands on, customer-focused Area Sales Manager to join the team based at Trafford Park.
As an Area Sales Manager, you will have a passion for business development and be target-driven to deliver results. You will promote the company's hire business to prospective customers through structured business development activities while maintaining relationships with existing customers to ensure your order targets succeed.
The ideal candidate will have experience and the ability to demonstrate success in winning orders in a face-to-face, business-to-business environment. You will also be able to successfully design and implement business development campaigns to increase opportunities in the area.
Role Details
- Salary: £34,000 - £37,000 plus commission based on performance
- Role based: Trafford Park, M17 1AW
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Role Responsibilities
- Accountable for the delivery 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 business development calls within the area designated, in order to achieve order targets.
- Complete customer care programme to ensure maximum satisfaction, continuity of business and maximise referral opportunities.
- Prepare quotations and drawings against customer requirements.
- Generate orders by attending customer sites.
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
- A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
- Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin!
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
- Full UK driving licence
- Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends
- Monitors performance against deadlines and milestones
- GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 or above
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 2,000 people across ten European countries.
As an equal opportunities employer, Portakabin is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made.
