[Hiring] Contractor Sales & Specification Manager @Hempel A/S

Role Description

Join a fast paced and exciting sales force. Be part of our fast paced, ambitious sales team and help to shape the future success of the Crown Paints brands. We’re looking for a Contractor & Specification Sales Manager to join our Contractor Team. Covering South West England and Wales, you will promote and sell Crown trade brands, Sandtex Trade, and Sadolin Trade brands via sales and specification assigned to a specific geographic area and customer group (contractors, housing associations and councils).

This is your opportunity to sell and promote products and services to a ledger of contractor customers and end clients. Our ideal candidate will have a high level of selling, negotiating, communication and presentation skills, and will:

• Contribute to and implement National promotional strategy and measure own performance/effectiveness.
• Drive regional promotions to give the territory a competitive advantage.
• Strategically develop nominated accounts to increase sustainable profitable sales growth.
• Manage nominated accounts and clients.
• Identify, develop and manage new opportunities.
• Identification of key strategic clients for development.
• Management of secured business and implementation of tailored specification support packages to include detailed site condition surveys.
• Produce highly detailed technical specifications.

Qualifications

• Previous B2B sales experience within a field based sales role preferably within the construction/trades industry.
• Sufficient specification and technical proficiency.
• Ability to understand and communicate product and technical information.
• Influencing and negotiation skills.
• Commercial awareness.
• Product focused background with understanding of margin improvement (advantageous).
• Ability to work on own initiative and be self-motivated.
• Current valid driving license.

Requirements

• Self-motivation and initiative.
• Driving license to operate company car.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, company car, phone and laptop.
• 28 days basic annual leave each year (plus 8 bank holidays).
• A variety of discounts / vouchers on products that Crown supply.
• A generous pension plan where the Company will match, and even double your contribution.
• Multiple other benefits relating to your health and wellbeing.