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Area Sales Manager – Equipment Hire

Location: Market: Salary: 30,000 - 38,000 Key Benefits: Bonus + Company Car
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Are you a dynamic technical field sales professional with a passion for the construction industry?  

This well-established specialist equipment hire business is looking to add to its sales team in the North.

Why This Company?

My client is a leader in the hire and distribution of specialist equipment which is used across a diverse range of industries such as construction, industrial and healthcare.

As a well-known, reputable business, this market leader has experienced steady growth over the last few years and now has over 30 offices across the UK. With a multimillion-pound turnover, they have continually challenged the boundaries of technology to provide high-specification products to help simplify and accelerate their clients’ processes.

Rewards & Benefits

  • £30K – £38K Basic Salary
  • Realistic Bonus – £10K
  • Company car
  • Fuel card
  • Expenses paid
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Pension

About The Role

In line with further expansion, they now wish to recruit an Area Sales Manager / Business Development Manager to further enhance new and existing relationships across the North of the UK.

The role is mainly field based with circa 4 days each week spent visiting customers and the remaining day working from home.

You will manage and upsell to existing clients, whilst also developing new business, both are of equal importance.

Other duties will include:

  • Completing industry-leading training
  • Developing relationships with new and existing customers, understanding their current challenges and providing solutions
  • Travelling across the North of the UK, typically 4 days per week but with the autonomy to plan your own diary
  • Utilising an extensive customer database to help acquire new customers
  • Selling a wide range of specialist products into the construction, education and industrial sectors
  • Developing relationships with M&E Contractors, Local Authorities, Construction Contractors, Sub-contractors, and Commercial Building Developers
  • Selling to a variety of people from Procurement and Facilities Managers to MD’s and Members of the Board
  • Being the focal contact for customers from first contact to final delivery, as well as supporting with aftercare and providing technical support
  • Liaise with other departments, share leads and cross sell products
  • Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date CRM

About You

You will be a proven sales professional with demonstrable experience in a technical sales role. You will have experience of selling into a variety of industries and ideally be experienced in selling to construction, industrial or healthcare businesses.

You will also have experience in a field-based role and be comfortable with extensive travel across the north of the UK.

Other key skills include:

  • A self-starter who can operate autonomously
  • Willingness to train and retain technical information about products
  • Excellent customer service skills with the ability to support customers after sales
  • Experience in new business development and account management
  • Ability to sell into all levels of customer up to business owners
  • Confident and articulate communicator
  • Excellent relationship developer
  • Hold a UK driving license

Interested in this role? Here’s what happens next…

Click the apply button below to send us your CV. If we think you’re a great fit for this role, we’ll be in touch in the next couple of days.

Thank you for taking the time to read about this opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you,

Team Mase.

Job Ref: 128-6344                                  

Area Sales Manager – Equipment Hire

Location: Based North England – Northwest, Yorkshire or Northeast (UK travel required)

Keywords: Technical Sales, Sales Manager, Business Development, Account Management, UK Sales, BDM, Construction, Equipment Hire, Industrial, Healthcare, Contractors, Field Sales, New Business, Area Sales, Territory Sales

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  • Use the format shown in the downloadable template below. This is a format we have found clients respond well to. It’s easy to navigate and gives all the key information required in a clear and concise manner. This format will work for the majority of professionals, however if you’re a creative or design related individual, we’d recommend a CV format that demonstrates your unique creative/design capabilities.
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THE EMPLOYER

Fully researching the business you are meeting is vital, as the majority of clients will ask “what do you know about our organisation?”.  The internet can provide endless historical and present information on the organisation you are meeting, but simply glancing at a company website and reviewing the basics will no longer make you stand out within a competitive market. Areas to focus your research on include:

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Don’t be worried about trying to memorise all the company information; most employers don’t mind candidates coming armed with a note pad of facts and figures. It should be written in bullet point format and be for your reference only. Try to avoid pages of information and stick to a maximum of one side of A4. If anything, we find clients are more impressed that candidates have taken the time to make notes opposed to just glancing at their company website.

THE INTERVIEWERS

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YOU

No matter what level of role you are interviewing for you will find a large percentage of the interview will focus around you, your skills and past experience.  So although it seems an obvious area to prepare on, it’s one which candidates overlook the most.  

KNOW YOUR CV

Knowing your CV is vital, as clients will be keen to learn more about what interested you about a certain role, what you didn’t enjoy about the position, reasons for leaving companies, salary package, duties, achievements etc. It is important you’re able to give a good account of your skills and focus on drawing synergy between your past experience and the position on offer. Most clients are looking for related examples and will therefore ask scenario based questions allowing you to draw on your own experiences to answer.

JOB SPEC

Reviewing the job description in detail prior to your interview is critical. It will allow you to not only understand more about the employers requirements but allow you to tailor your pitch in the interview.  Naturally it makes more sense spending time talking about the areas of your experience that have the most relevance to the position on offer.

PREPARE QUESTIONS

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