Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Marley, a leading UK roofing company, as an Area Sales Manager covering Kent. This field-based role offers autonomy to sell solutions, develop new business, and nurture existing relationships. You will proactively identify projects, negotiate business plans, and achieve regional sales targets. The position requires a commercial mindset, strong sales experience, and excellent interpersonal skills. A company car allowance, sales bonus, and comprehensive benefits package are included. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact and grow your career within a successful team.

Requirements

• Be a commercial thinker with a flair for sales
• Show ambition and passion within sales
• Have a passion for your customers
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Have the ability to achieve targets through planning, analysis, strategic implementation, and commercial acumen
• Possess excellent organizational skills
• Have the ability to support, influence, and enthuse
• Possess energy, with a clear ambition to progress and a passion for learning
• Have experience in external sales
• Live on patch (Kent) and have a UK driving licence and own your own car
• Have experience using Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to develop value-added presentations

Responsibilities

• Sell solutions and add value utilizing innovative products
• Ensure existing relationships are nurtured and develop new business opportunities
• Proactively identify, influence, and deliver a strong pipeline of projects with specifiers and contractors
• Negotiate, develop, and implement specific business plans to achieve regional sales targets
• Promote early pre-tender engagement
• Prepare and present project-related value propositions and solutions
• Attend regular meetings across your region
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecasts to support planning

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Specification or Technical Sales

Benefits

• 26 Holidays + bank holidays
• Cash Car Allowance
• BUPA Single Cover
• Sales Bonus
• 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