Area Sales Manager - West Midlands

DELABIE is the European market leader for taps and sanitary ware in Public Places & Commercial (offices, sports stadiums, airports, universities, hospitals, etc.).

DELABIE is helping to save the planet For more than 90 years, one of DELABIE’s major concerns has been to preserve natural resources through sustainable development. The company is fully committed to an eco-responsible approach to manufacturing.

In particular, DELABIE products and solutions can reduce drinking water consumption by up to 90%, improve hygiene in public places and combat nosocomial diseases in healthcare facilities effectively.

DELABIE focusses on people. Our teams benefit from a management who are aware of everyone’s aspirations and potential. These teams comprise employees who are passionate, experts, autonomous and supportive; able to develop their skills on a daily basis, in an atmosphere of permanent innovation.

DELABIE is an international Group, 100% family-owned, employing 450 people, and which exports to more than 90 countries through 10 subsidiaries worldwide. Every year, the company continues to see strong growth.

DELABIE is renowned for innovation and design, Our products regularly receive awards from prestigious competitions which recognise the best innovations and attractive designs.

A fast-growing development in the UK Our solid based 20 people team in the UK develops a double-digit growth on a promising market, with ambition to become UK’s market leader.

To pursue our development, we are looking for Area Sales Managers for a full-time position in our "West Midlands" region. The role covers the following postcodes (Candidates must live on patch): ST, TF, WS W, DY, B, LD, HR, WR, and GL

Your day to day:

• Meet decision makers to specify our products in public and commercial buildings, healthcare establishments with direct contacts to building owners, architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, local authorities and installers.
• Follow-up the main construction projects through all the construction steps, from design until hand-over.
• Create customer’s loyalty and dynamize your network of professional distributors
• Train your clients and specifiers on our products
• Plan and organize your visits
• Develop the turnover on your area

If you are looking at a new challenge where you aim at building long lasting relationship with your clients, this job is for you!

Our training program and our adapted tools will allow you to develop your talents and progress within a dynamic team.

Come and enhance your experience by fulfilling yourself in a structure geared towards the success of its teams.

Timings

The closing date for applications will be Monday November 18th.

We will personally call each shortlisted individual and provide a detailed explanation of the role and answer any questions you may have between November

Successful candidates will undertake some on-line tests on Friday November 22nd or Monday November 25th.

Face to face interviews will be held at our UK HQ in in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, with a final 2nd round interview, via Teams.

Requirements

• Candidates MUST LIVE ON-PATCH (ST, TF, WS W, DY, B, LD, HR, WR, and GL)
• Hands-on person you enjoy learning
• Client driven with a taste for technical products, you are autonomous and curious in order to develop the activity with all of your interlocutors
• You will be autonomous and need to be ambitious to manage your area
• External sales experience
• Must be based on patch (except for London roles)
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Passport (some of our technical / product training is done at Delabie Head Office in France)

Benefits

• Live a professional adventure with family-owned group with human scale
• A high-quality induction plan and training program
• Competitive Basic Salary - to suit any experience level, plus activity and sales bonuses
• Company car
• 5% pension contribution