Northern Area Sales Manager ABUK
The purpose of your job is to… meet and exceed sales objectives of a specific geographic region through management, training, motivation, support and guidance of the territory sales engineers within that area.
To do this well you must… give a supportive and high quality service to all technical sales engineers under your management, whilst always thinking ahead and acting to meet the ever-evolving needs of our organisation.

EXPERIENCE

• At least three to five years of individual sales experience in business-to-business sales and able to document personal performance, including total sales, sales growth and rankings
• Ideally, the applicant should have experience managing salespeople, though other management experience will suffice in some cases
• Experience in recruiting, hiring and training personnel and performance evaluations
• Experience in collecting, analysing, interpreting sales data and report writing
• Providing first-class, proactive customer service
• Pioneering improvements and changes to meet organisational objectives
• Giving excellent support to field workers
• Knowledge of the belting industry

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think logically and apply a methodical approach to organising information or preparing a business proposal.
• Proficient user of business software packages
• High level of accuracy, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to maintain confidence of staff at all levels
• Ability to cost-effectively fulfil an unending requirement from finite resource
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Attributes Essential Desirable Qualifications

• Educated to A-Level standard or equivalen

• To manage the Sales function and its strategy with confidence and vision to reach our organisational objectives.
• To be continually thinking creatively and innovatively about cost-effective ways to deliver sales development and improvement to better meet the growing needs of the business
• To promote a high level of service to our customers where failure may mean the loss of business or the inability to maximise opportunities; this may also be out of hours when necessary.
• To effectively prioritise and deal with the diverse and often urgent needs to meet organisational objectives.
• To be continually improving the sales service provision.
• To manage and maximise the sales budget, recognising and perceptively judging the balance between cost-saving and necessary spending to deliver our organisational objectives
• To give time and expertise to technical sales engineers, equipping them with the very best practices to enable them to work effectively
• To willingly contribute expertise and practical help in preparing, analysing and providing data
  Carrying out other duties that may reasonably be required

Attributes Essential Desirable Qualifications

• Educated to A-Level standard or equivalent