Area Sales Manager

Job Description

An opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join a well established business with strong growth plans and offering career growth opportunities.BASIC SALARY: £40,000 - £45,000BENEFITS: Quality Company Car Contributory Pension Healthcare Scheme Laptop Mobile 25 Days Holiday plus StatsLOCATION: WorcesterCOMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Cardiff, Birmingham, Swansea, Bristol, Hereford, NewportJOB DESCRIPTION: Area Sales Manager - PackagingTo maintain current growth, we wish to recruit an Area Sales Manager to develop our business in the West Midlands, Welsh Borders & South Wales region. As our Area Sales Manager, you will be required to identify and create new business opportunities as well managing existing accounts in a wide range of industries. You must be a self-driven team player and results-oriented with a clear focus on high quality and business profit. You will need to be a natural forward planner who critically assesses your own performance, you will be credible, and comfortable in dealing with both internal and external contacts. Reliable, tolerant and determined. Empathic, communicator, well presentedand businesslike.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Area Sales Manager - PackagingYou will be required to identify and create new business opportunities as well managing existing accounts in a wide range of industries. Drive high profit margin and ROI: achieve margin improvement with mix of products Ensure a professional line is presented at all times managing customer expectations as appropriate in line with the business priorities. Manage the total cost of servicing the account, including the hidden costs. Ensure that the customers SLA is deliveredPERSON SPECIFICATION: Area Sales Manager - PackagingYou will have a proven track record of selling industrial consumables into a manufacturing environment. Experience and knowledge of rigid packaging, particularly plastic (blow moulded and injection moulded) and metal (steel and tinplate), would be of greatinterest, although not a pre-requisite.We are also interested in candidates who have knowledge of working within distribution channelsYou will be able to demonstrate, with thorough training, that you are able to be: An exceptional packaging sales professional A competent presenter, able to present the companys image professionally at all levels One who can deliver solutions to our clients and solve customer problems.THE COMPANY:We are a provider of the widest range of high quality plastic and metal containers in the UK supplying a diversity of market sectors across food and non-food customers.Established for over 40 years, we offer a service to our clients which is second to none. Our coverage of the UK is comprehensive via three strategically placed sites.PROSPECTS:The company offer career opportunities.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: It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles, sold to the following markets and sold thefollowing types of products: Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Account Manager, Sales Manager, Account Executive, Technical Sales Executive, Business Development Manager. Rigid Packaging, Corrugated, Plastic, Printed folded CartonsINTERESTED Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement 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: IP17025, Wallace Hind Selection