Territory Sales Manager

Excited by growth? If so, keep reading! We are currently recruiting for a driven, strategic and passionate Territory Sales Manager to generate a continuous stream of sales revenue and profit for our business.

Please note this role will involve travel around the region so you will need to have a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a sales plan to identify and pursue new trade and existing account sales opportunities within the specified territory, maximising business support resources effectively and ensuring cost effectiveness.
• Proactively engage with potential customers, understand their business requirements and position our products and services to secure supply from the whole of our portfolio.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as Regional Director/Managers, External Sales, Branch, Specialist and Head office support teams to align strategies and activity, utilising specialist knowledge and expertise to create an industry leading customer offer.
• Form working relationships with sales personnel of key suppliers operating within the assigned territory, ensuring that effective joint calling activity is maximised.
• Build a comprehensive knowledge of your assigned territory to include customer opportunities, market trends, competitor activity across all target market sectors.
• Keep informed and up to date on industry and technological trends, market conditions and competitor activity to identify opportunities and threats, using market intelligence to adapt the territory strategy and product and promotional activity to deliver the best results for target customers.
• Promote and advocate City Plumbing & the wider Highbourne group specialist business units for providing bespoke solutions to the marketplace, becoming the customer's first choice.
• Provide regular updates to the Regional Director/Manager on progress toward target and strategy using existing business reporting tools to track sales, customer interactions and overall performance.

You'll have an innovative and agile approach to identifying growth opportunities. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with a dedicated focus on driving results, whilst being committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Qualifications and Personal Traits

• Tenacity and resilience
• A pro active approach to sales, with a strong desire and ability to win and grow new business
• Excellent communication skills
• Self confident and self motivated, with the ability to work on own initiative or as part of a wider team
• Full UK driving licence (clean)

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they feel they don't have every one of the required skills. All Highbourne Group companies are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you're interested in this role but think that your previous experience doesn't completely match - apply anyway. You could be just the person we're looking for!

Benefits

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental health first aiders and employee assistance programme - we look out for each other
• Complete induction and support to grow and encourage development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.