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August 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Area Hire Manager
We're looking for a hands-on, commercial and results driven sales manager who has a passion for business development, understanding clients' needs and achieving orders, whilst delivering excellent customer service and clearly demonstrates our Company values.
You will develop and promote the Company's hire business, to include our full range of products and services. The role is target driven and the key focus is on order winning activity.
A standalone sales role working alongside Commercial and Operations teams, the role holder will be a strong communicator with a teamwork ethic.
Role Details
- Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
- Role based: Inverness, IV1 1TR
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
Role Responsibilities
* Accountable for the delivery of set targets for the year for a particular catchment area including contract value, order numbers and visits as well as other commercial KPI's.
* Carry out structured business development, local and national campaigns, including "cold calling" within the area designated, in order to achieve order targets.
* Generate orders by attending Customer sites.
* Prepare quotations and drawings against customer requirements.
* Effectively use internal systems (e.g. SAP, CRM) to ensure customer information is kept up to date and systems are aligned.
Benefits & Opportunities
* Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
* Working flexibly principles
* Contributory pension
* Commission
* Company Car
* A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
* A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
* Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)
There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin!
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has:
* Proven commercial experience, including face to face sales experience and business development.
* Strong experience of carrying out business development activities (campaign calling and cold calling).
* Demonstrable B2B sales experience.
* Full UK driving licence.
* Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends
* The Area Hire Manager is a standalone role based in Inverness, so there will be a need to demonstrate the ability to work independently and autonomously whilst developing relationships and working effectively with commercial and operational teams.
Even if you do not match all of our `ideal' criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
About Portakabin
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.
Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.
As an equal opportunities employer, Portakabin is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made.