Sales Executive

Jewson is seeking a Sales Executive to manage and grow a portfolio of accounts across Dover, Hythe and Folkestone. You will build strong customer relationships, drive profitable sales and deliver a seamless experience through proactive engagement and effective project follow-up.

Working closely with branch teams and suppliers, you will ensure orders run smoothly while identifying opportunities to grow, onboard and reactivate accounts. Success relies on strong teamwork, collaborating with branches and peers to deliver consistent results.

Job Purpose:

To provide day-to-day sales support for yourrespective branches &account portfolio customersincludingmanaging estimates, orders&projects. Acting as the key contact for customers, this role works across the Branch network to ensure orders are managed, while building strongloyalrelationships, identifying new opportunities, whilst actively supporting the growth of sales across assigned account portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow your assigned account portfolio.
• Develop trust relationships with a portfolio of customers to maintain and improve profitability.
• Be proactive, responsive, and visible, including regular site visits and customer check-ins.
• Simplify the customer experience by ensuring close management of all owned accounts.
• Follow up and requote projects as required to meet or exceed agreed revenue, margin, and growth targets across assigned customer base.
• Work closely with branches to ensure customer orders are prioritised, accurate, and aligned to site schedules and specific delivery requirements.
• Provide specification & product data as required.
• Supportbrancheswith the on-boarding of new account, ensuring that they start and continue to spend.
• Acquire a thorough understanding of customer needs and requirements, expanding relationships by continuously proposing solutions that meet the customer’s needs.
• Target dormant and lapsed accounts to reactivate them.
• Target, open and grow new customer accounts.
• Build strong supplier relationships & work in partnership to secure & grow customer business.
• Demonstrate strong team ethics by working collaboratively with branches and colleagues, overcoming challenges together and supporting one another to deliver consistently strong outcomes for customers.

Experience Required:

• Experience within a sales, accountmanagementor customer support role.
• Commercial and pricing awareness of margins, rebates, delivery charges, and credit processes.
• Clear and professional communicator across phone, email, and in-person; able to build relationships with customers at all levels, local branches,suppliersand regional supportteams .
• Project coordination,prioritisationand multitasking skills.
• Organisationalskills withabilityto manage your own diary.
• Full UK Drivinglicence.
• Experiencewithin builders’ merchant, supplier, or construction-related roleis desirable.

What’sin it for you?

• Company car + fuel card.
• Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) – with Legal & General.
• Life Assurance - From your first day of employment with us you are automatically covered for a lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x your basic salary. However, if you join the STARK Building Materials Retirement Savings Plan (including if you are automatically enrolled) and contribute a minimum of 4% of your Pensionable Earnings, your lump sum death in service benefit will be increased to 4 x your Pensionable Earnings.
• WorkPerks– A platform home to hundreds of all yourfavouritehigh street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.
• AvivaDigicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation).
• Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover.
• Employee Discount.
• Refer a Friend scheme.
• Wellbeing Centre viaWorkPerks.

Why STARK?

We'reproud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers.We'rea friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

Ifyou'reready to take your career to the next level and join a team thatis dedicated to providinggreat service, we want to hear from you.

What'snext…

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer anyinitialquestions you have.

Where a role isadvertised asfull-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If yourequireadditionalsupport as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Stark Building Materials UK is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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