Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join CPM's expanding team as an Area Sales Manager, managing a team of tactical agents and working with leading FMCG brands. This fixed-term position (until March 2025) offers remote work with travel, a competitive salary (£30,000 + 10% bonus and company car), and the opportunity to manage a team across multiple locations. You will be responsible for ensuring team performance, recruitment support, coaching, and building strong relationships. CPM provides award-winning sales training, a pension scheme, and other perks. The ideal candidate will have experience managing remote teams, a passion for team development, and strong communication skills.

Requirements

• Have experience in remotely managing a large team of short-term/flexible workers to succeed as a team and deliver against key performance and compliance targets
• Have demonstrated ability to use your initiative to shape your team’s strategy to continuously improve & innovate to deliver the best results
• Have a passion for nurturing and developing your team
• Be unfazed by difficult situations or the need to face into challenging conversations
• Be open to coaching and training, you might have years of management experience, but to develop you’ll need to be open to learning and applying new or different techniques
• Build strong, long-lasting relations with your team and wider stakeholders within the business
• Be a strong communicator and have excellent organisation and planning skills

Responsibilities

• Ensure your team is delivering against all KPIs for the multiple campaigns running at any given time
• Ensure you have enough resource to deliver each campaign, supporting the recruitment team with local recruitment
• Coach and develop your team via field accompaniments, providing support and guidance to improve performance
• Build and retain a trusted bank of temporary workers within your region who you can rely on, giving you access to flexible resource to manage any sickness and holidays
• Build great working relationships across the wider team including Client Service, Operations, HR and any other appropriate support departments
• Constantly look at how things can be improved to drive efficiencies

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally located in Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1

Benefits

• ��30k per annum+ company car +10% bonus
• 5 days a week, days to be worked between Monday -Saturday, hours to be worked between 8am and 8pm (some weekend working is expected you will receive days off in lieu when this happens)
• Access to award winning sales training
• Holiday 20 days per annum + 8 bank holidays
• Pension scheme and other perks