Mitchell Maguire
Specification Sales Manager – Flooring
Job Title: Specification Sales Manager – Flooring & Interior Products
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Industry Sector: Carpet, Carpet Tile, Flooring, Interiors, A&D, Architects and Interior Designers, Specifiers, Flooring Contractors, Fit-Out Contractors, Commercial Office, Education, Student Accommodation, Building Surveyors, Letting Agents, Estate Management and Local Authorities
Area to be covered: North London, Northern Home Counties and Anglia
Remuneration: £60,000 + possible guarantee of up to £10,000 Commission Year One
Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car & Full Benefits
The role of the Specification Sales Manager Flooring & Interior Products will involve:
- Field sales role selling a full range of manufactured floor coverings / carpet tiles
- Promoting multi-loop and low level loop carpet tiles as well as some ranges of FRS (full repeatable scroll)
- 100% specification field sales role, targeting architects and interior designers (A&D), fit-out contractors and end users
- Historically strong into commercial office, education, universities, student accommodation etc.
- Working alongside two existing field sales professional covering London
- Inheriting a small project bank, you will be expected to invoice a relatively small amount of £500,000 in your first year
- Targeting to grow a sizable project bank of circa £3m-£5m, with a view to closing these projects over the coming years
- Utilising ABI leads and in-house CRM database
- Project sizes from 500m2, typically £10,000 upwards project value
The ideal applicant will be a Specification Sales Manager Flooring & Interior Products with:
- Must have a proven track record of selling into the architects or interior designers (A&D) specification marketplace
- Ideally from the flooring/ carpet industry
- Open to interior products such as: wall coverings, fabric, ceiling, partitioning or furniture
- Contacts within architects and interior designers (A&D), fit-out contractors and end users may be beneficial
- Tactile sales background rather that technical, sold something aesthetically pleasing, ideally flooring related
- Team player with energy, passion and Enthusiasm
- Strong commercial and presentation skills
Mitchell Maguire is a specialist construction field sales recruitment consultancy, dealing exclusively with construction field sales jobs, construction field sales vacancies and specification field sales positions within: Carpet, Carpet Tile, Flooring, Interiors, A&D, Architects and Interior Designers, Specifiers, Flooring Contractors, Fit-Out Contractors, Commercial Office, Education, Student Accommodation, Building Surveyors, Letting Agents, Estate Management and Local Authorities
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