Details:
- Salary: £37,000 - 44,200 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Ulverston
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
AREA SALES MANAGER – MIDLANDS & EAST
Field-based | Ideally Huntingdon, St Neots, Cambourne or Peterborough
£37,000 – £44,200 basic | Realistic Year 1 OTE £47k–£54k | Established ASMs earning £30k+ commission
Our client is a long-established UK designer, manufacturer and installer of outdoor play equipment. It’s family-run, makes everything in its own UK factory, and supplies schools, councils and developers across the UK and in over 50 countries.
They’re looking for an Area Sales Manager for their Midlands and East territory. It’s a varied, consultative field sales role: you’ll work with customers from first conversation through to design and a finished playground, with in-house design, sales support and marketing behind you.
The role:
Manage and grow sales across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Suffolk, Warwickshire and parts of north-east London
Sell to a balanced mix of schools and nurseries, local authorities and parish councils, and housing developers, plus holiday parks, pubs and leisure operators
Win new business while developing existing customer relationships
Work with landscape architects and developers to get specified early on new-build schemes
Visit sites, present designs and proposals, and guide customers through to order
Plan your own diary and pipeline, and keep the CRM up to date
Report to the Head of Field SalesAbout you:
Proven field sales experience with a track record of hitting or beating targets (awards, figures or appraisals you can show us)
Experience selling to schools, councils, housebuilders or landscape architects. This could be play equipment, outdoor gym, street furniture, canopies, surfacing or similar.
Confident building rapport and presenting to a wide range of customers
Organised, self-motivated and comfortable managing a large territory
Based centrally to the patch, with a full, clean UK driving licenceThe package:
£37,000 – £44,200 basic, depending on experience
Uncapped commission: around £10k is realistic in Year 1, and established ASMs are earning £30k+
Company car, laptop and phone
Private healthcare and health cash plan
35-hour week
25 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus an extra day for milestone birthdays
Employee assistance programme, wellbeing plans and a discounts app
Full induction and mentoring programme
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