Area Sales Manager

Job description

Area Sales Manager – Garden Products (Growing Media)

£35-40,000 Basic + Commission + Choice of Company Car or Car Allowance

The Company

• Highly successful & well established producer of garden products

• Family run, independent business

• Rapidly expanding

• Autonomous, inclusive company culture

• Have heavily invested in technology and operations

• Supply garden centres across the UK

The Role

• Area sales role covering the North West region

• To successfully manage existing accounts – independent garden centres

• To also actively prospect for new business within the garden centre channel

• To effectively and efficiently manage and grow a large sales territory

• To consistently hit/exceed all KPIs and targets set

The Person

• Candidates must have experience of selling to independent garden centres

• Must be excellent relationship developers with a track record of successfully managing existing accounts

• Must also be proactive with experience of generating new business within the garden centre channel

• Must have experience of selling to relevant buyers within garden centres

• Candidates should therefore come from a related category eg compost, growing media, peat, peat free, soil, turf, plants, seeds and bulbs, landscaping products, garden chemicals / fertilisers, mulch, manure, possibly pets, possibly garden tools or possibly plant pots and planters

• Must live close to the M62 corridor, ideally towards the west side

DUE TO ANTICIPATED RESPONSE LEVELS WE SHALL ONLY BE ABLE TO CONTACT CANDIDATES WHOSE APPLICATIONS WE WISH TO PROGRESS. IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM US YOUR APPLICATION WILL BE DEEMED TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION.

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Manchester Area

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

04-04-2026

Profession type

Retail

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English