Internal Sales Team Leader – Building Materials

Internal Sales Team Leader – Building Materials

• You're already training the new starters, running your own book and covering the branch manager's desk when he's not there. None of that comes with a title yet.
• This one gives you the title, the authority and the money for exactly what you're already doing.

THE CLIENT

If you're an experienced internal sales professional in a builders' or trade merchant environment right now, you already know the pattern: you carry the branch, you train the people under you, and somehow the promotion that should be yours keeps going to someone else. This is a genuine way out of that cycle. A well-established, multi-branch trade merchant business, backed by a substantial national group with a genuinely entrepreneurial way of running its branches, is looking for someone exactly at your stage to stop waiting and just take the step up.

THE ROLE

This is a proper player-manager role, not a watered-down assistant title. You'll keep running your own accounts across the East of Scotland, dealing directly with contractors and housebuilders, while also leading and mentoring a small, early-career internal sales team and deputising for the branch manager whenever he's out. Real authority, from day one, not a title with none of the weight behind it.

THE CANDIDATE

You've come up through a builders', timber, plumbing or similar trade merchan...