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Sales Manager- Steel

All about the role

Based at Advanced Steel Services, Preston site, we currently have a key sales management opportunity available for an experienced Sales Manager to lead our high performing sales teams across our Preston & Chester sites.

Specific tasks include:

Develop robust sales plans, within the constraints of operational capacity, that seek to secure profitable new market share and gross margin growth through a combination of new business and new product sales through lowest cost to serve.
Ensure sales plans reflect the need to minimise stock levels, work in progress and customer debtor days in order control unnecessary investment in working capital.
Continue to develop an already strong portfolio of customers, ensuring  long term mutually beneficial relationships, whilst managing and motivating the team to achieve.
Manage the end-to-end Sales process for clients from engagement to sale, to delivery, fully  supporting, mentoring, and  motivating our sales teams in Preston & Chester.
Ensuring that effective systems of control and information exist, routinely monitor sales performance against plan in order to maximise profit potential
Personally, lead negotiations with existing and potential customers and through regular meetings, build relationships to maximise commercial opportunities with them.
Develop, publicise, and apply a business commercial operating policy, informed as appropriate by the Group, within limits of their authority on pricing, credit etc. and monitor customer service standards that seek to build customer retention levels.
Be mobile in the field visiting customers face to face when needed.
Frequent travel to the Chester site will also be a requirement.

We offer you

Very competitive salary 
Company car or car allowance 
25 days holiday plus bank holiday 
Barrett Steel Pension 
Bonus Potential
Life Assurance
Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
Access to health & wellbeing services

Essential Skills for the role:

A strategic thinker with strong leadership skills
Previous sales management experience within the steel industry, or similar heavy industry in the UK.
Prove track record of managing and motivating sales teams with a record of building up accounts and delivering results
Excellent man-management skills, used to managing and motivating a sales team
Confident in achieving targets and KPI’s
Can drive & has a full UK driving licence
Ideally you will already have achieved success within the steel industry and are looking to build on this

How it feels to work for us

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward-thinking organisation that is respected as the UK’s leading steel stockholder. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business. Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change. 

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