Field sales Representative - Timber

  • Mitchell Maguire
  • Apr 27, 2026
Full time Sales & Marketing

Job Description

Area Sales Manager Timber

Job Title: Field sales Representative Timber

Job reference Number: (phone number removed)

Industry Sector: Timber, Wood, timber sheets, cladding, construction, Builders Merchants, Timber Merchants

Areas to be covered: South West focus on Devon & Cornwall

Remuneration: £35,000-£50,000 + up to 17.5% Bonus

Benefits: Fully expensed EV company car & full benefits

The role of the Area Sales Manager Timber will involve:

  • Field sales role promoting timber, timber sheets and cladding
  • Selling into timber merchants
  • 50% of your time managing a key customer with circa 20 branches on the area
  • 50% of your time deevloping 20-30 lapsed accounts/ customers that have suffered from a lack of field sales representation
  • Key account responsibility for circa £5m, focus on cross selling and upselling timber products
  • £1m target for specials products and new customer revenue
  • Ideally you will be able to pop into our clients South East Cornwall based depot one/ two times per week
  • Support the branch manager in driving up branch growth

The ideal applicant will be an Area Sales Manager - Timber with:

  • Field sales experience with timber is a strong preference
  • Open to building products backgrounds with a proven track record of selling into merchant customers (ideally timber merchants, but open to builders merchants)
  • Hungry and willing to learn
  • Easy going temperament
  • Resilient
  • Mix of new business and account development skills
  • Self-motivated, proactive and target driven
  • Autonomous in natufre
  • IT literate

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist construction field sales recruitment consultancy, dealing exclusively with construction field sales jobs, construction field sales vacancies and specification field sales positions within: Timber, Wood, timber sheets, cladding, construction, Builders Merchants, Timber Merchants