Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Brakes' Independent Sales Team as an Area Sales Manager, contributing to ambitious growth plans. This home-based role in Hull, North Yorkshire, offers a competitive salary, bonus, company car or allowance. Responsibilities include building customer relationships, driving profitable growth, understanding competitor activity, and acting as a brand ambassador. You will need strong sales experience, target-driven attitude, and the ability to leverage new technology. In return, Brakes provides a competitive salary, uncapped bonus potential, a home-based contract, company car, additional holiday purchase options, and award-winning products at a reduced cost.

Requirements

• It goes without saying that you’re highly service focused, putting the customer at the heart of everything you do, providing the best solutions to support and enhance their business
• Tenacious and resilient you’re a self-starter with the drive and determination to succeed and demonstrable experience of delivering against targets
• You’ll also be self-motivated to enhance your own development, seeking continuous improvement by leveraging & learning from a diverse range of skills & experience and a range of L&D programmes
• You will have the opportunity to progress into a vast range of commercial roles to really develop your career
• You’ll also need to be confident with the adoption of our modernisation programme and the new technology we are adopting to improve the customer experience and optimise performance

Responsibilities

• Role model our Company Values / Purpose
• Build and leverage strong customer relationships through a natural curiosity in the independent sector
• Grow and retain customers delivering profitable volume growth Vs targets
• Effectively partner your customers to understand their plans for growth, adding value, offering a wide range of practical solutions and products
• Understand competitor activity & proposals, ensuring you are always offering your customers the best local solutions
• Work pro-actively with the Business Development Manager to understand new customer requirements and ensure a successful handover
• Act as a brand ambassador for Brakes in your local market

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of salesforce while not essential, would be advantageous

Benefits

• In return we offer a competitive base salary along with uncapped bonus potential
• A home- based contract
• Company car
• Additional holiday purchase options to top up your annual leave
• Award- winning products at virtually cost price