Regional Sales Manager in Warrington, Cheshire

We are looking for an experienced Sales Leader to work within the Sales Leadership Team supporting and developing a regional sales team. The team will be promoting the full product range of material handling equipment (forklifts and warehouse trucks). This role comes with a competitive salary and commission scheme, an attractive company pension, an excellent company car and the opportunity to work for the world's number 1 material handling provider.

About the role: The role is to lead a sales team who provide materials handling solutions (the best in our industry) and providing excellent levels of customer service to businesses in a wide range of industry sectors. On a day-to-day basis your skill set will require:

• Strong core leadership behaviours: Empathy and care, positive thinking, honesty and integrity, desire to learn, aligned values and customer first approach.
• Lead, develop and motivate a sales team.
• High level of interpersonal skills including communication and relationship building.
• Demonstrate self-management skills including organisation, planning and self-motivation.
• Strong coaching skills.

We are looking for a self-motivated person with a strong track record of leadership within a field sales environment, preferably in business to business (B2B) sales. Experience in selling materials handling or capital equipment would be beneficial, however this role is to support the sales team to achieve their individual and collective sales target whilst supporting their further development.

Here is a quick tick list for the other skills we are looking for:

• Good commercial awareness and business understanding.
• Experience leading a sales team.
• Previous experience in sales.
• Professional communication skills - confident at presenting, good attention to detail.
• Strong negotiation skills and an ability to develop solid business cases.
• Effective planning and organisation skills.
• PC literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• A full UK drivers licence is required.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Attractive company pension
• Company vehicle (if applicable)
• Fuel card (if applicable)
• Full tool kit (if applicable)
• Company sick pay
• Voluntary critical illness cover
• Free eye tests
• Free flu jabs
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Benefits platform with instant discounts and offers

Why choose Toyota: Toyota Material Handling is the world's number one manufacturer of materials handling equipment providing quality sales and service support across the UK. We foster a culture where our team members are encouraged to continually improve their processes and strive to provide the highest quality in service for our customers. We aim to create a safe environment where our team members feel valued, fulfilled, engaged and happy. We want to attract the best talent and develop our team so that they achieve their full potential. Our commitment is to read each application carefully, however due to the high volume of applications we receive regrettably only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Toyota Material Handling UK is an equal opportunities employer.