Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Posted 8 April by Mitchell Maguire
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Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products

Job Title: Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction ProductsI

Industry Sector: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Area to be covered: East & Southern Ireland

Salary: €60,000-€70,000 Negotiable/ dependent on experience

Benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid Car + full benefits package

The role of the Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products will involve:

  • Field sales position, selling a manufactured range of sawn timber including; carcassing timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, block wood, kiln dried decking and fencing timber
  • Selling into builders merchants, timber merchants and buying groups
  • Building relationships and managing existing portfolio of clients
  • Dealing with order values from €12k - €250k
  • Taking over an established region with circa 200-300 active accounts
  • Four and a half days on the road visiting customers, half a day working from home/ admin
  • Working to a 6-12 week journey plan depending on the value of accounts, typically 6 customer calls per day
  • Contributing towards 120-130,000 cubic meters of material sales (50%+ of this will be managed by the internal team at head office)

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Timber and Construction Products experience with:

  • Must have proven field sales track record, selling timber (or related) building materials to builders merchants, timber merchants or buying groups
  • Must have sold into builders merchants, timber merchants or buying group members
  • Dealing with order values up to €250,000
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Autonomous
  • Great relationship builder/ account development skills


Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Sales Jobs, Construction sales vacancies and Specification sales positions within the building industry in sectors such as: Sawn timber, carcassing timber, construction timber, pallet wood and packaging material timber, Canadian lumber, machined whitewoods, saw milling, decking and fencing timber

Required skills

  • Construction
  • Timber
  • wood
  • builders merchant

Reference: 52435375

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