Area Sales Manager

As our Area Sales Manager / Account Manager you will be required to sell technical equipment and fluid handling solutions into the pharmaceutical, nuclear, and chemical manufacturing sectors. Travelling throughout the South West of the UK you will recognise the key skills in becoming a trusted advisor to our customers.
 
BASIC SALARY: £50,000- £55,000 per annum
 
BENEFITS:
· 21 days holiday + bank holidays (rising to 23 days plus BH after 3 years' service)
· Bonus scheme
· Sales Incentives
· Healthcare cash plan
· Company car
 
LOCATION: South West UK
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Stoke-on Trent, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Burton-upon-Trent, Telford, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Coventry, Warwick, Rugby, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Hereford, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth, Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Yeovil, Swindon, Salisbury, Bournemouth, Poole
 
Overview:
 
Strengthening our UK Sales Team, we are seeking an Area Sales Manager / Account Manager with a consultative selling style to focus on the sale of our high-quality chemical pumps and fluid handling system solutions direct to our customers across the South West of the UK. We will also welcome applications from Internal Sales professionals who are looking for their first step into external sales. This is a Field Sales / Account Manager role that offers you the opportunity to take on a territory sales role where your technical/engineering industry experience will be utilised.
 
As our Area Sales Manager / Account Manager you will:
· Manage and grow your sales territory by building on existing relationships and product portfolios.
· Split your time between account management (60%) and new business development (40%)
· Have experience of selling into the nuclear, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
· Use your technical acumen to provide solution-based sales.
 
Training & Development - Extensive training will be given in relation to our technical product range and solutions.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION :Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Account Manager - Pumps / Chemical
 
In an ideal world, we will be talking to driven sales professionals with some kind of exposure to the pump/fluid handling systems selling into any of the manufacturing, chemical, nuclear, or pharmaceutical industries.
 
You will:
· Have an excellent track record in sales, enjoying being out on the road, meeting customers, selling technical solutions, and making an impact every day.
· Regularly update our CRM system with accuracy and detail, collaborating with the support team at our Head Office.
· Be a forward thinking, determined sales professional, adept at new business development utilising your interpersonal skills to account manage effectively.
 
Why us?
 
Respected as one of the leading chemical pump manufacturers not only supplying the chemical industry, but also the nuclear, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries we have proudly been manufacturing chemical process pumps for many decades. Operating successfully in the UK, we have a one team culture, operating with ambition and enthusiasm delivering continuous stable growth for over twenty years. Our central manufacturing facility based in Italy means we are perfectly suited to support our customers across the UK, Ireland and East Asia. With a dedicated training academy delivering hands-on training to Engineers within our sector we are proud of the knowledge that we impart to colleagues across the industry.
 
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets and worked with the following products and/or services: Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Area Sales Manager, Territory Manager, Business Development Manager, Sales Engineer, Technical Sales, Regional Sales Manager, Internal Sales Engineer - manufacturing, engineering, industrial, pump manufacturer, valves, BVAA, wastewater, oil, gas, pharmaceutical, petroleum, food, and nuclear industries, BPMA, liquid pumps, pumping supplies and equipment, pump solutions, fluid handling systems, fluid handing solutions.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgment of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: LO17220, Wallace Hind Selection