About the role
Sales Manager - Tradepoint
Full time / Part Time / Job Share - 39 hours per week*
Permanent
£33,000 - £42,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday
B&Q Reading
As a Sales Manager, you’ll be responsible for driving business growth for TradePoint while delivering an exceptional level of customer service. This is a new opportunity in the business to really make a difference to our trade proposition and to make the role your own.
*Full time / part time / job share applicants considered.
Key responsibilities
You’ll develop a network of contacts from identifying and developing new business opportunities and growing existing members. Maximising the growth of sales and creating a highly effective trade experience in your local area by promoting the TradePoint brand and services.
We’re thinking more ambitiously about how our stores can offer our trade customers even more.
You’ll make things happen working closely with the stores to inspire, motivate and engage the wider store team to create a culture which is focused on identifying trade opportunities and how we best deliver the needs of our trade members.
Required skills & experience
Bringing your experience within the trade or house building market, you’ve got a sharp commercial mind as well as plenty of customer service experience. A great communicator who shows initiative and has plenty of experience building relationships with customers and internal stakeholders, you’ll feel right at home with us. We’ll support you with the tools and knowledge through a fantastic induction and team support.
You’re also flexible enough to work when our customers need you including weekends, evenings, and bank holidays.
- Proven experience in winning business, promoting products and services from previous sales or business development roles
- Industry experience is beneficial but not essential
- Strong Communication skills
- Relationship building
- Negotiation skills
- Project Management
- Problem solving
- Financial and business acumen
- Planning and organisational skills
- Team working
- You’ll be visiting customers and project sites – to keep everybody safe, you’ll need a full UK driving license with over a year’s driving experience.
Career progression
What's in it for me?
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! We also provide generous breaks to make sure you’re refreshed and able to perform at your best. So dependent on the duration of your shift and eligible break entitlement, we will pay you for the time you are on your break, so put your feet up on us!
As part of a great team, you’ll be supported to grow and encouraged to explore new career directions within the business and the wider group. And, because you’ll be inspiring great things for our customers and the whole business, you’ll do work worth caring about.
We want to ensure that all employees, future employees and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk.
