Head of Sales - Housing

Come and join us as a Head of Sales for our Housing division in this regional role covering the UK

wienerberger UK & Ireland is dedicated to empowering the construction industry to create a sustainable future for generations to come, through an extensive range of high-quality building products, systems, and solutions. We foster long-term partnerships, support exceptional careers, and place sustainability at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role

As the Head of Sales for our Housing division, you will lead our National Housing Sales Team to deliver on our commercial and strategic ambitions in the housing sector.

This role manages relationships with both national and some regional housebuilders, where you will take ownership for driving sales across all our wienerberger product groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, coach and lead the National Housing Sales Team
• Develop and implement the National Business Plan
• Build senior-level relationships with national and regional housebuilders
• Drive business development activity and cross selling opportunities
• Oversee strategic accounts and ensure growth in both private and social housing sectors.
• Conduct site visits and represent the Housing division at senior level presentations.
• Use business intelligence and CRM systems to enable effective account management.

This is a regional role covering the UK so frequent travel is expected (and occasional overnight stays). A company car/allowance is provided.

Hours of Work: Mon to Fri. 9am to 5pm

About You

You will be an established sales leader with strong experience of the building/construction sector. Specially you will have led a commercial team focused on managing key accounts with national/local housebuilders.

You'll have a positive "can do" attitude which enables you to work pro actively and to inspire you team to achieve their goals.

You will also have:

Leadership & Team Management

Proven ability to lead and manage a national sales team, set targets, and deliver against budgets.

Strategic Sales Development

Experience in creating and implementing business plans and driving growth across product groups.

Relationship Management

Ability to build and maintain senior level relationships with national and regional housebuilders.

Product Knowledge

In depth knowledge of building products and routes to market.

Presentation & Communication

Excellent communication skills and high standard of presentation skills for internal and external senior stakeholders.

Commercial Acumen

Ability to identify and develop cross selling opportunities across brands and regions.

Systems Proficiency

Familiarity with CRM and Business Intelligence tools for account and pipeline management.

Collaboration

Skilled at working cross functionally with distribution, technical, and import/export teams.

Flexibility to travel

You will have a full UK driving licence and the flexibility to travel across the region regularly.

About our Benefits

• Salary - competitive
• Quarterly sales bonus
• Company car/allowance
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays & holiday flexibility (buy 4 extra days and sell up to 2 days) + additional volunteering day
• Private medical insurance - family cover
• Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes (including 24/7 online GP, discounts on counselling, mental health support service, get fit programmes)
• Health & wellbeing benefits which include dental cover, health cash plan and eye tests
• Financial advice/support available (including expert advice from our pension provider, and recommendations on savings & loans options)
• Employee discounts available with various retailers, gyms, and wienerberger products
• Life assurance (2x annual salary)
• Opportunity to join our Share Incentive Plan and our Employee Profit Participation Programme

About Wienerberger Ltd

Wienerberger Ltd is a provider of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, offering outstanding, sustainable solutions for new build and renovation. In the UK, we have head offices located in Cheadle and Doncaster, showrooms in London, Belfast and Surrey, with brick and roof tile production sites in Manchester, Co. Durham, Worcestershire, North Warwickshire, West Midlands, North Kent, Surrey and West Sussex.

So what are you waiting for? Come and join wienerberger as a Head of Sales and start growing your career with us today!

The closing date for this role is subject to change and may be closed earlier than advertised.