Area Sales Manager

Job description

Field-based Area Sales Manager role covering the South East and Midlands, working with builders' merchants, industrial distributors, DIY retailers, and manufacturing end users. Representing a market-leading range of tools and fixing solutions used across multiple trades, this is a high-potential territory with a strong existing customer base and significant growth opportunity.

You'll spend 3-4 days per week in the field, managing around 60 active accounts while developing new and lapsed business. Success will come from effective planning, with multiple pre-booked customer meetings daily, balancing account management through distribution and generating new industrial end-user business.

This role suits a commercially astute, organised sales professional with strong territory planning and new business skills, comfortable building long-term relationships while also securing quick wins.

The company is a well-established, respected brand in the fixings and fastenings sector, offering excellent support, strong leadership, and genuine career progression.

Salary: £40-45k basic + £7k OTE (uncapped), company car, pension, 25 days holiday, life assurance.

Candidate Location: Northampton, Milton Keynes, Coventry

Desired Skills and Experience

We are looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:

A field sales professional with a good level of demonstrable experience to date

Has route planning, account segmentation, and new business skill sets

Understands selling through distribution/builders merchants, as well as direct

Someone who is up for the challenge, able to spend up to a night away per week, and build business

Have an ambition to grow their personal brand and develop as a sales professional

Full & Clean Driving licence

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Northamptonshire

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

12-04-2026

Profession type

Sales

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