If you're leading a sales or operations team for a fuel competitor right now, you'll know the feeling: you're closing the deals, hitting the targets, holding the team together, but the ownership, and the credit, sits above you. We're recruiting an Area Manager to take full commercial and operational ownership of a multi-site business unit covering the Braintree depot and the surrounding Essex area, the kind of role where the decisions, the team, and the outcomes are genuinely yours. This appointment comes at a pivotal time for the business. Watson Fuels is reopening and reinvesting in local depots, moving away from a centralised model and back towards a network that's rooted in the communities it serves. It's a strategy built on faster response times, stronger local relationships, and decisions made by people who actually know the patch, which is exactly the kind of leadership this role calls for. A team made up of Account Executives, a Key Account Manager, Operations Supervisors, and Drivers, across a key region for one of the UK's most established fuel suppliers. You'll need a track record of leading field-based sales teams, depot-based operational experience, and the commercial confidence to manage P&L, budgets, and margin at a senior level. Competitive salary, performance bonus, car allowance, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, matched pension, private medical and dental (single cover paid by Watson Fuels), and a genuine investment in your long-term development, not just lip service to it. Almost 70 years in the business. Over 200 red tankers on the road.
Locations
BraintreeEssex
