Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Marley, a leading UK roofing company, as an Area Sales Manager and enjoy the autonomy of working from your home office. You will be responsible for selling solutions, nurturing existing relationships, and developing new business opportunities across a wide range of customers within a specified region. The role involves proactively identifying and securing projects, negotiating and implementing business plans, and preparing sales forecasts. You will need strong sales experience, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to achieve targets through strategic implementation. A company car allowance and sales bonus are included, along with other benefits such as BUPA cover, a pension plan, and paid time off. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your business and career within a supportive and successful team.

Requirements

• 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
• Live on patch, have a UK driving license and be willing to travel within the patch covering; GU PO RG SO SP and own your own car

Responsibilities

• Sell solutions, add value and utilise our innovative products, all under our trusted brand
• Ensure existing relationships are nurtured, you’ll need to balance the development of new and critical business opportunities across a wide range of customers
• 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, and you’ll prepare and present project related value propositions and solutions
• Attend regular meetings across your region, and the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecasts to support with planning

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 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