Area Sales Manager

🕒 August 25

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🤑 Sales

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Portwest

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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 with distributors, resellers, and agents • Identify existing customers with high growth potential and create development roadmaps • Identify new business opportunities and complete sales planning schedules • Use strategies to win new business continuously and consistently • Engage in consultative selling by identifying customer needs and providing Portwest solutions • Develop written proposals and quotations for current and prospective customers • Focus on selling new Portwest products by bringing samples to meetings • Follow up after meetings to close sales • Develop market intelligence through trade shows, seminars, exhibitions, and journals, and feed insights back to the business • Promote distributor promotions on Portwest products with end users

🎯 Requirements

• 2–5 years' experience selling PPE, workwear or safety wear sales • Experience selling on behalf of a manufacturer, distributor, reseller or agent • Sales experience in a related industry; Automotive, Tools, Chemicals, MRO’s, etc. • Drive to continue sales growth of Portwest through field sales • Clean driving licence and willingness to travel throughout your designated region • Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills • Positive attitude with a winning mentality • Excellent team player • Applicants must have a right to live and work in the relevant jurisdiction