Sector Sales Director

The Role

Sector Sales Director – Minster – Competitive salary and benefits

'Making the world a better home' – Saint–Gobain's purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net–zero carbon emissions by 2050!

At Saint–Gobain people matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, our aim is to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills, and develop your career. Did you know we have been awarded top UK & Global Employer 6 Years Running!?

This brand new and exciting position of Sector Sales Director is working for Minster – part of the Saint–Gobain Group. Minster is the fastest growing national specialist insulation and dry lining distributor in the UK, with 25 branches providing dedicated expertise and quality solutions.

It's exciting times for Minster – we are introducing a new Fire Protection Product range into the Minster brand. It will be the role of the Sector Sales Director to identify sales potential and specialist market segments to achieve business growth.

Key responsibilities of the Sector Sales Director

To work with the Head of Range Development to review the market opportunities, define range and launch into the branch network
To develop the sales strategy to deliver profitable growth within the Fire Protection sector and become a credible supplier in the marketplace
To ensure that Minster is the fastest and most effective distributor at introducing new product to its chosen markets
To form a strategic close working relationship with Operations, Supply Chain and Procurement team to develop and support the delivery of fire protection range into the business
Work proactively with the commercial team to develop a strong customer base, andwith the Regional Sales Manager to define and implement regional sales plans for Fire Protection

Build close working relationships with the branch network to ensure a successful launch of the new product range
To develop training plans for colleagues to support the product roll out into the branch network
Managerial responsibilities for a small team of Sector Sales Managers (TBC?)

Is this for you?

This is a key role that will help Minster achieve its growth plans. To be considered for the role we are looking for the following skills and experience

Specialist Knowledge of the Fire Protection sector including customer and supplier relationships, manufacturers, technical and commercial.
5 years + experience of managing field sales teams including coaching, development and aiding in the achievement of team sales budgets
Customer relationship management
Strong time management and organisational skills
Effective communication skills
Energetic, proactive, self–motivated and able to work on own initiative
Able and willing to travel as required
Ability to network and influence

Working for Minster

Working for Minster, you will be working as part of the Saint–Gobain Group, and you may or may not know that we are one of the largest construction businesses in the world!

The Sector Sales Director role comes with a competitive salary and the following benefits:

31 days' holiday (including bank holidays) – increasing to 33 with 5 years' service
Pension
Company Car
Life assurance
Share Options
Staff discount – across SGBD brands
Flexible benefits packageWe are an inclusive employer and keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you!

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

So, we are on a mission to make Saint–Gobain inclusive and accessible to all, with role models for you to look up to and learn from, no matter who you are!

The world of work is changing, and at Saint–Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business. We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments. Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexible requirement or need that you may have for this role. We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting. But, we promise to listen