Gas & Gear Manager

Salary: Circa £38k

Location: Rochester, Kent

Hours of work: 37.5 hours, Mon - Fri

Duration: Perm

Industry: Heavy Engineering / Industrial

World-leading industrial gases and engineering company urgently require a Manager to oversee their busy Kent depot and be responsible for managing and selling a range of welding equipment, cylinder gases, safety and related industrial products. You will be responsible for leading a team and your performance will be measured against sales targets and profitability so commitment to achievement is essential together with experience in a trade sales environment.

Key activities will include:

Developing business with our customer through.

• Providing a high level of service to existing customers.
• Achieve business development In line with product policy introduce new products and services in a timely fashion e.g. profitable servicing, repair & hire service from the centre, PPE, etc.
• Achieve sales targets for all product groups through the application of high product/process knowledge, effective selling skills and customer service levels.
• Utilise ICS systems to develop a local customer account database, maintaining sales revenues, identifying opportunities, and defending against competitive threats.
• Promotion of products within the local area by telephone contact.
• Maintenance of optimum stocks to satisfy customer demand
• Keeping accurate records
• Ensuring that cylinders and equipment comply with Company and statutory safety standards.

Lead, develop, performance manage, coach and motivate team members.

• Ensure team members understand specific accountabilities and are provided with feedback and support where required.
• Develop clarity amongst team of strategy, business targets and development plans.

Requirements:

Must have

• Previous sales experience within the hard goods sector / trade counter
• Preferably you will have understanding of Gases, Industrial, Safety and welding products and processes including safety.
• Previous management experience
• Robust selling skills
• Ability to deliver sales growth
• Ability to work on own initiative and to deadlines
• Full clean driving licence

Additional Requirements:

• The successful candidate will display a high degree of self-motivation, flexibility and commitment to high levels of customer service.
• Candidates should also be of reasonable fitness as a degree of physical activity is involved
• Experience and knowledge of selling industrial gases an advantage

To Apply:

To find out more call and speak to our team, alternatively if you wish to apply for this role please send your CV direct to Mike at Totec. Thank you.