Area Sales Manager - East Anglia

Just Recruitment is working with a well established and market leading business, within the garden supplies, looking to add an Area Sales Manager – covering East Anglia, to their successful sales team. As an Area Sales Manager, you'll play a key role in driving both new and existing business. Working closely with the business support team, you'll drive new business generation, whilst developing the existing customer base. With a focus on field sales & client relationships, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact. The successful candidate will have strong prior sales experience, preferably in an external capacity, as well as, have strong communication skills, attention to detail & integrity. Key Experience: Working with your internal colleagues, you will require excellent communication and team working skills. Understanding of general customer base, product range, and customer sales data. Brand Development and Elevation – methods and techniques. Developing/maintaining a strong knowledge of the full product range. Discipline and organisational skills and ability to implement and take ownership of tasks to completion. Ability to work in a team and to reach out to prospective and current customers. Working to set Sales and Gross Profit forecasts. Working with and updating bespoke CRM system to follow up all leads, enquiries/quotes. Providing a consultative approach with customers, creating effective solutions to meet their needs. Having the ability to multitask and manage ongoing projects is a must. This is a unique opportunity to join a well-established local brand, you'll join the business at an exciting period of growth. This role boasts a competitive salary, pension scheme & company vehicle or car allowance, laptop, mobile phone and all the tools you need to be successful. You'll also be provided with a comprehensive training and induction process. Please note the role is home based – with 4 days 'on the road' covering East Anglia with 1 day working from home. You will need to be able to stay away from home, attend trade fairs and quarterly company sales meetings. Offering a competitive package, including basic, achievable commission and bonus structure – company vehicle for the first 6 months, followed by a car allowance, laptop, mobile phone, iPad and all the support you could possibly need to be successful