Portwest
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1904
🏭 Manufacturing
🤝 B2B
🛒 Retail
Manufacturing • B2B • Retail
Portwest is a global supplier of protective workwear and personal protective equipment (PPE). The company offers a wide range of products — including high-visibility clothing, flame-resistant garments, workwear, waterproofs, footwear, gloves, head protection, eye protection, respiratory protection, fall‑protection equipment and various accessories — across more than 2,400 models in 32 product lines. Portwest operates an online catalogue and multi-language website, provides retail and wholesale (including delivery direct from warehouses to customers or third parties), and maintains a network of 14 global warehouses to support fast distribution.
Area Sales Manager
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Portwest
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1904
🏭 Manufacturing
🤝 B2B
🛒 Retail
Manufacturing • B2B • Retail
Portwest is a global supplier of protective workwear and personal protective equipment (PPE). The company offers a wide range of products — including high-visibility clothing, flame-resistant garments, workwear, waterproofs, footwear, gloves, head protection, eye protection, respiratory protection, fall‑protection equipment and various accessories — across more than 2,400 models in 32 product lines. Portwest operates an online catalogue and multi-language website, provides retail and wholesale (including delivery direct from warehouses to customers or third parties), and maintains a network of 14 global warehouses to support fast distribution.
📋 Description
• Build quality business relationships with new and existing accounts • Conduct daily face-to-face sales meetings to maintain and develop relationships with distributors and end users throughout your territory • Identify new business opportunities and complete sales planning • Utilize solutions-based strategies to win new business on a continuous and consistent basis • Identify existing customers with high growth potential and create a roadmap for their further development • Engage in consultative selling by identifying customers’ needs and providing a Portwest solution to meet those needs • Develop clear and effective written proposals/quotations for current and prospective customers • Focus on selling new Portwest products by bringing samples to each meeting • Ensure effective after-meeting follow-up to close sales • Conduct ongoing development of market intelligence, including marketing events such as trade shows, seminars, and exhibitions • Drive significant growth into target industry segments and designated channels
🎯 Requirements
• 1-3 years of PPE, workwear or safety wear sales experience is preferred • Experience selling on behalf of a manufacturer, distributor, reseller or agency • Experience drafting and executing sales plans for aggressive expansion • Appetite to continue the rapid growth of Portwest through field sales • Ability to translate business initiatives into bottom-line results • Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills • Positive attitude with a winning mentality • Excellent team player
🏖️ Benefits
• Great Place To Work 2024 • Private Irish Business of the year – Export Industry Awards 2025 • Silver Ecovadis Sustainability Rating 2025
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