Job Description:

Area Sales Manager – Glass

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – Glass Products

Industry Sector: Glass, Glass Products, Fenestration, Glazing Systems, Windows, Windows & Doors, Processed Glass, Toughened Glass, Architectural, Automotive, Interiors, Profiles, Glass Machinery, Window Fabricators, Sub Contractors, Installers, Furniture Manufacturers, Interior Shop-fitters, Trade Windows, Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Field Sales

Area to be covered: Scotland, North East & Cumbria

Remuneration: £45,000-£50,000 neg. + Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed hybrid company car + benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager – Glass Products will involve:

• Field sales position selling a manufactured range of glass products such as: flat glass, processed glass and toughened glass
• Selling into the construction, glazing and architectural markers
• Targeting various fabricators and installers (not selling directly to the contractors that carry out the project work – one stage removed from that!)
• Typically selling to metalwork companies, joinery companies, window manufacturers, trade window companies, furniture manufacturers, shop-fitters, interior fit-out companies and a smaller element of dealing with merchants who will cut the flat glass down to size for window and door fabricators and small glazing retailers
• Circa 250 customers on the area
• 70% account management 30% new business development
• Responisible for an area with a turnover of approx. £8m

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager – Glass Products experience with:

• Must have construction field sales experience in an associated industry
• Ideally from a glass, glazing, windows, fenestration, profiles, glass processing, glass machinery background
• If not glazing related you must have sold into fabricators or metalwork companies, joinery companies, window manufacturers, trade window companies, furniture manufacturers, shop-fitters or interior fit-out companies
• Must have the tenacity to generate new business relationships
• Driven, hungry and ambitious

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within: Glass, Glass Products, Fenestration, Glazing Systems, Windows, Windows & Doors, Processed Glass, Toughened Glass, Architectural, Automotive, Interiors, Profiles, Glass Machinery, Window Fabricators, Sub Contractors, Installers, Furniture Manufacturers, Interior Shop-fitters, Trade Windows, Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Field Sales