Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Marley, a leading UK roofing company, as an Area Sales Manager and contribute to their success. You will be responsible for developing and nurturing relationships with specifiers and contractors, driving sales, and achieving regional targets. This role offers autonomy, a competitive compensation package, and opportunities for career growth within the Marshalls Group.

Requirements

• Previous success has shown we need a commercial thinker who has a flair for sales
• You don’t need to have done the exact same job, but you do need to show us your ambition and passion within sales
• A passion for your customers, ensuring they are at the heart of all you do
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to achieve targets through planning, analysis, strategic implementation, and commercial acumen
• Excellent organisational skills
• The ability to support, influence, and enthuse
• Energy, with a clear ambition to progress and a passion for learning
• Experience in external sales
• In this regional role, you’ll need to live on patch, have a UK driving license and be willing to travel within the patch covering; BR CR DA GU KT RG SE SL SM SW TW W and own your own car (Car allowance and Expenses are part of your package)

Responsibilities

• With training and support, you’ll have full autonomy to sell solutions, add value and utilise our innovative products, all under our trusted brand
• Ensuring existing relationships are nurtured, you’ll need to balance the development of new and critical business opportunities across a wide range of customers
• With your passion for sales and experience with specification you’ll be able to run the patch almost like your own business and develop profitable relationships
• The first step will be to proactively identify, influence, and deliver a strong pipeline of projects with specifiers and contractors
• Once specification opportunities have been established you’ll negotiate, develop, and implement specific business plans to achieve regional sales targets
• You’ll be responsible for the promotion of early pre-tender engagement, and you’ll prepare and present project related value propositions and solutions
• The job will include attending regular meetings across your region, and the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecasts to support with planning
• We’re ready for you to challenge our expectations, showcase your entrepreneurial skills and really create a space for yourself where you can improve on what’s already in place!

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Specification or Technical Sales would be a bonus
• Experience using Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, to develop value-added presentations

Benefits

• Working from your home office, you’ll have autonomy to grow your business and career
• 26 Holidays + bank holidays
• Cash Car Allowance
• BUPA Single Cover
• Sales Bonus
• Pension - 9% total contribution (can be increased)
• 36.5 hours, Monday – Friday
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Employee Discount programme
• Refer a friend scheme
• EAP programme – Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing support
• Career progression, training and development within the wider Marshalls Group