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Account Director - Midlands

£competitive plus benefits

Leicester, Leicestershire

29695

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Are you an Account Director who gets a buzz out of creating a fantastic customer experience and developing outstanding long lasting relationships? Are you motivated by developing sales opportunities and looking for a new exciting challenge that is a key strategic focus for the business? Are you a fantastic leader that can influence and collaborate to deliver success for customers?

Then look no further!

Travis Perkins has a really exciting opportunity for an Account Director to join the business covering the midlands region and take full responsibility for the growth and development of the House Builders and Regional Developer customers. This is a new and developing focus within Travis Perkins strategy and will involve the Account Director developing long lasting strategic relationships and achieving optimum ‘share of wallet’ of material spend to help grow and develop our Regional House Builder proposition.

It is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is really driven to make a difference and build success!

What you’ll do

You’ll work closely with the customer, coordinating all activities on behalf of TP to create value and enhance the overall fantastic customer experience.  Through strong internal relationships you'll influence the business to ensure the customers' needs and requirements are met whilst pulling together the value propositions on their respective product categories. Whilst our focus is on our customer relationship, we also believe that our suppliers are as equally important, by ensuring they have a platform to offer the best to our customers, through innovation and adding value, you’ll work closely with them to drive profitable growth.

Is this you?

To be selected in this role you will come from an external sales background and have proven history in winning new business, ideally within the house building market but this is not essential. You will have a flair for sales, be able to demonstrate excellent communication and listening skills whilst being able to influence key stakeholders. Customer focussed, good negotiator and sound commercial awareness will all help you to be the best within this role. You will also have project management experience as this a key to developing success for our customers.
    
What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive bonus
- Car or car allowance 
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; 20% off at Wickes plus special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

About us

You’ve probably heard of us, you’d have seen our trucks on the road, and more than likely would have seen a bag of our sand on your neighbours driveway. But there is more to us than just that. With over 20 businesses in the group, spanning over 1,900+ locations, we are the UK's largest distributor of building materials to the building, construction and home improvement markets.

We have over 20,000+ colleagues that are committed to providing an unrivalled level of service to our customers. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 

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