Career poster Hiring for Commercial Sales Manager at Burscough Full Time

Job Title: Commercial Sales Manager – Outdoor Sports & Playground Equipment

Hours: 40 per week, Monday to Friday

Geographical area covered: Office Role

Location: Burscough Lancashire

Remuneration: £35K to 40K basic + bonus

Package: Health cover, company pension, death in service benefit (2 x salary), ongoing training & support, team building events, annual Christmas party.

Holidays: 23 days plus bank holidays

This is a senior role with excellent growth prospects for an ambitious target achiever looking for reward, recognition, and genuine long term career development.

AMV Playgrounds are part of the Bailey Street Furniture Group and have been trading for 40 years.

Having earned a strong reputation within the school’s sector, we are now ready to build on that success and invest in expansion into other market sectors.

The Role

Based at our Burscough office and ing directly to the Commercial Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing new sales within the commercial & construction sector. The role will be fully supported with ongoing product knowledge training & sales process training. You will already be an experienced sales professional with a strong work ethic and looking for your next step on your career path.

Industry Sectors: Main contractors, Subcontractors, Landscape Architects, Local Authorities, House Builders, Holiday Parks.

In this primarily office-based role, the ideal candidate will be a successful, well-established sales professional within the playground / outdoor sports industry, bringing with them a wealth of industry knowledge and existing relationships with key contacts.

As an accomplished negotiator with strong closing skills, they will be able to demonstrate a detailed worked knowledge of the bureaucracy of procurement processes with local authorities as well as within the construction industry. They will also possess excellent account management skills.

Some experience of identifying and bidding for relevant public tenders will be helpful, as would some knowledge of specification sales, though not essential.

You will enjoy support from our Marketing Team in terms of generating relevant leads for you each month as well as introductions to warm contacts.

However, you will also be responsible for self-generating enquires via your existing network as well as pro-actively using a nationwide construction projects database (paid access provided) to track relevant schemes, make necessary introductions and bid for works.

Personal Qualities

• Integrity, honesty, a passion for winning
• A friendly, high energy, positive attitude in all aspects of work
• Extremely confident and professional communicator on the telephone
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced target driven office environment as part of a team
• Calm under pressure, relishes challenges and solving problems to achieve success

Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of sales within the construction industry / playgrounds industry.
• Ability to quickly build strong rapport and trust with customers via telephone and email
• Can demonstrate a wide range of sales related questioning & closing techniques
• A skilful sales negotiator and closer, able to achieve results without being pushy
• Well-developed listening skills
• An experienced user of CRM systems
• Excellent organisation and time management skills, able to work to deadlines
• Able to work closely within a team, but also independently
• Confident in numeracy for pricing quotations

As an Equal Opportunities’ employer, BSFG values diversity in all its forms and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We believe that a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is essential for building a successful, thriving organisation.