Area Sales Manager

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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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

• Sell Portwest PPE, safety wear, and workwear products to distributors in the East Midlands • Report to the Regional Sales Manager • Build quality business relationships with new and existing accounts • Conduct daily face-to-face sales meetings with distributors, resellers, and agents • Identify high-growth existing customers 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 • Sell 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 it back to the business • Promote distributor product promotions to end users

🎯 Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of experience in selling PPE, workwear, or safety wear • Proven track record of sales experience with manufacturers, distributors, resellers, or agents • Background in sales within related industries such as Automotive, Tools, Chemicals, MROs, etc. • Strong drive to contribute to the continued growth of Portwest through field sales • Valid, clean driving license and flexibility to travel across your designated region • Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills • Positive, results-driven attitude with a strong desire to succeed • Team player with a collaborative approach to achieving goals • Applicants must have a right to live and work in the relevant jurisdiction

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent employment • Equal opportunity employer • Applicants considered without attention to age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, civil status, veteran status, family status, disability status or membership of a minority group