
Area Sales Manager
Crown Gabelstapler GmbH & Co. KG - Deutschland
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Liverpool • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Reporting to the Branch Sales Manager, your key responsibilities are the growth of a specific sales territory and providing excellent levels of customer service to businesses in a wide range of industry sectors
- The area already hosts an existing client portfolio but ultimately the success of the role hinges on 80% New Business Development and 20% Account Management of existing Crown customer base
- You will play a key role in all stages of the sales process, including initial prospecting, appointment making, customer presentations and demonstrations through to ultimately closing the deal
- The efficient planning and management of the territory is as crucial as your work ethic, drive, and enthusiasm
- Offering a Consultative approach, working across all levels from shop floor to board level, you will develop a thorough understanding of each prospect or customer and their operations, looking for opportunity to secure new business, develop further business or provide additional value.
Requirements
- 3 years sales experience, ideally within the Materials Handling sector
- Strong new business development skills
- Excellent customer management skills to build long lasting relationships
- Personable – ability to build strong relationships
- Strong presentation and customer facing skills
- Commercial acumen (need identification, market awareness, competitor awareness)
- Strong IT skills, proficient in Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Cloud based CRM System
- Excellent organisational skills (specifically territory planning, time management and working to deadline)
- Meet individual sales targets by maximising upsell and cross-sell opportunities
- Ability to absorb client information and communicate features and benefits to customers
- KPI driven
- Full UK driving licence.
Benefits
- highly competitive salary with excellent commission
- 25 days holiday
- company car and fuel card
- company pension
- personal benefits such as discount scheme
- Tell Us Health
- employee training and development
- competitive compensation packages
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
sales experiencenew business developmentcustomer managementpresentation skillscommercial acumenterritory planningtime managementKPI driven
Soft skills
personablerelationship buildingcommunication skillsorganisational skillsdriveenthusiasm
Certifications
Full UK driving licence