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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Continue to develop an already strong portfolio of customers, ensuring long term mutually beneficial relationships, whilst managing and motivating the team to achieve.
4. 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.
5. Ensuring that effective systems of control and information exist, routinely monitor sales performance against plan in order to maximise profit potential
6. Personally, lead negotiations with existing and potential customers and through regular meetings, build relationships to maximise commercial opportunities with them.
7. Develop, pu...