Area Sales Manager

AI overview

Manage relationships with Trade Merchant partners to drive sales growth, leveraging expertise in market trends and product knowledge for exceptional results.

Are you a driven and dynamic sales professional looking to make a real impact? Our client, a leading and innovative business in its field, is seeking a passionate Area Sales Manager for the Central Region. This will be covering Yorkshire, Lincolnshire across to Blackpool and North Wales.

About the Role:
As the Area Sales Manager, you’ll manage and nurture relationships with Trade Merchant partners, driving sales growth and exceeding activity targets. You’ll utilise your expertise in market trends, product knowledge, and category management to deliver exceptional results. This is a field-based role requiring flexibility and the ability to meet the needs of customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with merchant partners across the territory.
  • Identify opportunities for growth and support merchant partners through the sales process.
  • Deliver engaging sales presentations showcasing the business's innovative products.
  • Monitor market trends, competitive activity, and merchant needs to remain ahead of the curve.
  • Ensure accurate and timely reporting on Salesforce CRM and management reports.
  • Manage visual merchandising and support installations for merchant partners.
  • Develop and execute strategic plans to improve underperforming accounts.
  • Meet sales and gross profit targets, with a focus on achieving revenue growth.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:
We’re seeking a candidate with:

  • Strong knowledge of the psychology of sales, sales processes, and tools like Salesforce and PowerBI.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship management skills.
  • A growth mindset and ability to apply advanced sales techniques.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities effectively and deliver outstanding results.
  • Experience in visual merchandising and category management is a plus.

Benefits

The Rewards:

  • £35,000- £40,000 basic
  • Up to 10% commission
  • Car or Car allowance

Location & Hours:
This role is field-based, with working hours from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. Occasional flexibility around hours is required to meet customer needs.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your sales career and thrive in a role that rewards drive and innovation, we’d love to hear from you!

Universal Business Team (“UBT”) is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Central America and Australasia. UBT, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is a diversified business consultancy that supports clients with business-advisory and group-buying services with the objective to help businesses develop a competitive edge. UBT was launched in 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis to support client organisations that were either in distress or looking to improve their competitiveness and financial performance. Currently, UBT turns over $500M (AUD) and has aspirations for significant growth over the next three to five years. A recent decision was made to bring four separate global regions together under the one global brand and leadership team. UBT’s business advisory services comprise corporate training, consulting, recruitment, accounting, and group buying services. UBT facilitates leadership and business excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. Through the group buying function, UBT nurtures mutually-beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we strive is a “win-win” for small-to-medium enterprises and big business alike. UBT provides services and products to approximately 3,000 independent, family-owned businesses globally with combined annual revenues exceeding $12B (AUD). The majority are small to medium sized enterprises with typical annual revenue ranges between $5m-$20m. However, there are also some larger businesses with annual revenues in the range of $100m-$250m. The unifying feature of all UBT’s clients is that the owners are parishioners of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC). UBT (which is owned by the PBCC) supports clients by providing products, services and support designed to increase their profitability and growth. The after-tax profits generated by UBT are reinvested into community initiatives, predominantly through schools (established to educate the children of Brethren families) and charities, such as the Rapid Relief Team (“RRT”) and the Red Cross. UBT Recruitment are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We will apply a rigorous, objective selection process using non-discriminatory criteria, as far as possible on behalf of all the businesses we recruit for.To view our policy in full please contact [email protected]

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