Area Sales Manager Timber and Construction Products

Company: Mitchell Maguire Recruitment Ltd
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Location: Stevenage
Job Description:

Area Sales Manager Timber and Construction Products

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Job Title: Area Sales Manager Timber and Construction Products

Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Area to be covered: South East, Anglia and Southern part of East Midlands

Basic Salary: £50,000-£60,000

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

Responsibilities:

  • Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of timber products
  • Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
  • Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
  • Dealing with order values from £12k – £250k
  • Taking over an established region with over 200 active accounts
  • Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/admin
  • Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts
  • Responsible for 100,000m3 cubic meters of materials
  • Due to size of territory, some away nights covering the territory as well as site and customer visits

Qualifications / Desired Experience:

  • Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
  • Must have sold to national, regional and independent merchants, especially dealing with buying groups and buying group members
  • Experience dealing with order values up to £250k
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Autonomous working style
  • Great relationship builder/account development skills

Company Information:

• Est. 20+ years

• Circa £10m turnover

• 50+ employees

• Privately held

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Marketing Services

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Posted: April 11th, 2026