Sales Manager – Automotive Car Care

National – UK

£50,000 + Excellent Bonus + Company Car + Excellent Benefits

Want to take an established UK automotive brand and play a leading role in making it significantly bigger?

This is an opportunity to take commercial ownership of the growth of a specialist automotive car care brand, developing new customers, strengthening existing accounts and opening up new routes to market across the UK.

You'll have a strong product range behind you, UK manufacturing capability and the freedom to identify where the biggest opportunities lie.

If you're at your best when you're opening doors, building commercial relationships and turning ideas into sales, you'll have plenty of scope to make your mark.

The Opportunity

You'll be responsible for driving the continued growth of an established UK-developed and manufactured range of professional car care and detailing products.

The range covers everything from shampoos, snow foams and wheel cleaners through to interior care, polishes, sealants and protective products.

But the opportunity goes beyond selling products from a catalogue.

The business also has extensive bulk supply, white-label and private-label capabilities, creating opportunities to develop partnerships with customers that want their own branded automotive chemical ranges.

As Sales Manager, you'll be responsible for finding those opportunities and turning them into profitable, sustainable business.

What You'll Do

Your focus will be straightforward: grow the brand and grow sales.

You'll do that through a combination of new business development and strategic account management.

You will:

• Identify and win new customers across the UK automotive market

• Develop relationships with distributors, wholesalers, retailers and other automotive partners

• Grow existing accounts by identifying additional products and commercial opportunities

• Develop new routes to market for the range

• Identify opportunities for bulk supply, white-label and private-label partnerships

• Build relationships with buyers, business owners and senior commercial decision-makers

• Develop account plans that turn customer potential into measurable sales growth

• Negotiate pricing, commercial agreements and promotional activity

• Work closely with marketing to increase brand awareness and support customer activity

• Feed market intelligence and customer ideas back into the business to help shape future product development

• Build and manage a strong pipeline of new opportunities

This is not about maintaining what already exists.

You'll be expected to look at the market, spot opportunities others may have missed and help take the brand into its next stage of growth.

What We're Looking For

You'll already be a commercially successful sales professional who knows how to develop business rather than simply manage a customer list.

You could currently be a:

• Sales Manager

• National Account Manager

• Business Development Manager

• National Sales Manager

• Key Account Manager

Automotive aftermarket experience would be particularly attractive, especially if you've worked with car care, detailing products, automotive chemicals, consumables, accessories or related products.

You'll bring:

• A proven record of winning new business

• Strong account development experience

• The confidence to approach and influence senior commercial decision-makers

• Experience developing distributors, retailers or other routes to market

• Strong commercial and negotiation skills

• The ability to identify opportunities and turn them into a clear sales plan

• A proactive, entrepreneurial approach

• The confidence to work autonomously across a national territory

Above all, we're looking for someone with the drive and commercial imagination to grow a brand.

What You Get In Return

• £50,000 basic salary

• Excellent performance-related bonus structure

• Company car

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Life assurance

• National responsibility and a high degree of autonomy

• Direct influence over the future growth of an established automotive brand

• Access to in-house manufacturing and product development expertise

• The opportunity to develop new markets, customers and routes to market

• Long-term career development within an ambitious UK business

Why Consider It?

Because you'll have something meaningful to build.

The brand has been developing automotive detailing products for over 15 years, with its products now used by professionals and enthusiasts in more than 40 countries.

Products are researched, developed, quality-controlled, and manufactured in the UK, giving the business the flexibility to react quickly to customer and market opportunities.

Behind the brand sits an established UK manufacturer and distributor with around four decades of experience, more than 100 employees and operations across multiple UK sites.

That combination gives you the security and capability of an established manufacturer with the commercial opportunity of a brand that still has significant room to grow.

If you're looking for a Sales Manager role where you'll be given the opportunity to build, develop and influence rather than simply maintain, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply today and Stewart Lupton at JSL Solutions - Industrial and Automotive Aftermarket Recruitment, will be in touch. Alternatively, call Stewart on 07763004067 for further detail.

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Specialists in senior commercial and leadership recruitment for manufacturers and distributors across the automotive and industrial aftermarket.