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Paving Contractor Manager (East Midlands)

Would you like to join a Market Leader and manage your own region while being provided with first class career development support to reach your full potential?

The Paving Contractor Manager team has been recently established to provide support and added value to Paving Contractors in their region, develop new and existing paving contractors as well as support the Merchant Sales Managers to grow sales through stockists.

TeamTobermore are celebrating 80 years in business, an incredible testament of the Company's success and growth.

Important Information
Location: Region ML, Midlands, Birmingham, England, B1 1BD
Date Posted: 22nd June 2022
Closing Date: 12th July 2022
Industry: Manufacturing and Engineering
Job Type: Full time
Salary: Based on Experience

About the role

Provide support to regional Paving Contractors as agreed by helping them to: • Increase sales of Tobermore products through their customer base that includes paving contractors, regional house builders and small contractors. • Ensure Paving Contractors are well trained and well aware of the USP’s Tobermore products can offer. • Ensure Paving Contractors marketing materials are kept up to date. • Provide support to regional approved paving contractors by helping them to: • Promote themselves and the Tobermore USP’s effectively. • Actively target new Paving Contractors to come onto the Tobermore approved scheme. • Assess new Paving Contractors as per the approved paving contractor scheme. • Follow up on all project opportunities and customer requirements within the timeframes required. • Attend sales review meetings to discuss performance against objectives set. • Attend regional sales team meetings to support the team objectives. • Work with the regional sales team and head office staff who provides support to you in this role. • Actively work on your target list of customers and ensure we are meeting those that can provide us with the most orders. • Develop strong customer relationships to enable you to gain repeat orders. • Use our added value services such as the design services to help gain more orders. • Actively plan your diary in accordance to company procedures.

What you will need

Required criteria

  • 5 GCSE’s including English, IT & Maths A – C
  • 6+ months of customer service experience
  • 6+ months of sales and business development experience
  • Full and clean driving license
  • Living location close to area that they will be covering
  • Willing to drive a commercial sign written van.

Desired criteria

  • A Levels / Degree – Business Related
  • Professional Sales Qualification
  • Sales Experience
  • Selling to the retail construction sector
  • Face- to face selling
  • Presenting Experience
  • Construction Industry knowledge
  • Landscaping product knowledge
  • Laying experience

Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity

Developing Strategic Alliances

Developing Strategic Alliances

Managing a Client Engagement

Managing a Client Engagement

Managing Appointments

Managing Appointments

Managing Contracts

Managing Contracts

Tobermore

Tobermore is a family run organisation, the family ethos of the firm is mirrored in the dedication of our staff. Tobermore is an award winning company and has been recognised both locally and internationally for both business processes and product quality. Our paving and walling products are manufactured from our plant in Northern Ireland and supplied right across the UK and Ireland. Together we will create beautiful spaces by producing world-class products whilst providing an outstanding customer experience.

Tobermore is an equal opportunities employer.

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Tobermore began life as a humble sand and gravel business started by the Henderson family in 1942. We then diversified into concrete products, which were sold to the local community in the 1950s. In the late 1970s we became one of the forerunners in manufacturing block paving – or ‘Pavia’, as it was originally called. Now, more than 80 years later, we are one of the top paving and walling manufacturers in the UK and Ireland, and pride ourselves on our world-class technology and the unrivalled quality of our products. Achieving £85 million sales in 2021/22 and positioned number 24 in the NI Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies 2022, your future is in good hands. Working alongside forward thinking business professionals throughout the business and receiving continuous learning and support, start your Tobermore career today.

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Our people To this day, the business remains family-run. We employ 450+ staff throughout the UK and Ireland. We embrace, encourage and engage in continuous improvement and continuous learning for all employees. Our people are the backbone to our company. They understand the importance of customer relationships. People buy from people. Our success is a testament to how customers appreciate our staff that have been trained and developed to deal professionally with all customer requirements. We only recruit people who share our values.

Our benefits

You Grow... We Grow It’s true. Continuous improvement lies at the heart of Tobermore's ethos. We encourage our staff to reach their potential through training in a supportive and fulfilling environment. At Tobermore, we take great pride in providing everyone with the opportunity to learn, develop and progress to do great things. We want to give our employees the opportunity to build on the already great skills and experience that they bring with them. View our employee perks below, dependent on the role.

Vacation, Paid time off

Performance bonuses

Retirement plan and/or pension

Office perks

Employee development programs

Employee discounts

Opportunity to travel

Remote working

Free parking

Free work laptop

Open office

Company retreats

Competitive salary

Event tickets

Long service recognition

We are a proud diversity ambassador

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Paving Contractor Manager (East Midlands)

Tobermore is a family run organisation, the family ethos of the firm is mirrored in the dedication of our staff. Tobermore is an award winning company and has been recognised both locally and internationally for both business processes and product quality. Our paving and walling products are manufactured from our plant in Northern Ireland and supplied right across the UK and Ireland. Together we will create beautiful spaces by producing world-class products whilst providing an outstanding customer experience.

Tobermore is an equal opportunities employer.