Sales Account Manager - Stockport
As a field-based Sales Account Manager you will be pivotal in driving growth and customer satisfaction across the construction industry — You will develop your skills and experience with our support to become the go-to expert in your field. You will visit customers every day to position solutions that improve productivity, solve problems, and identify opportunities ensuring meaningful impact in every interaction.
Hilti thrives on a direct B2B sales model, meaning your impact is immediate and meaningful. You’ll be championing real change in productivity, safety, and sustainability, by showing up and being present.
What You’ll Do
- Effectively plan your territory activity - visiting customers every day.
- Proactively engage current, new and returning customers, developing strong relationships with a focus on growing sales every day.
- Actively generate new business opportunities through prospecting, including cold calling, referrals, networking and customer-led introductions across your territory.
- Manage your day-to-day sales activity, progressing opportunities and follow-ups while maintaining an accurate pipeline through CRM.
- Develop your pipeline proactively, combining proven approaches with creative thinking to uncover new opportunities and drive sustainable growth across your territory.
- Continue to build upon your intensive training, staying informed on products and market trends to bring a positive, solution-focused mindset to every customer interaction.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven customer facing sales experience, ideally gained in a construction or similar industry.
- Demonstrable experience in a dynamic, fast-paced, target-driven environment, with a strong ability to identify and develop new business opportunities.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work independently, managing your time and priorities effectively.
- Strong resilience and adaptability, with the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels—from Site Operators to Managing Directors.
- A solution-oriented approach, with the ability to uncover customer pain points and present tailored, value-driven solutions.
- A natural sense of drive, curiosity, and self-motivation to succeed, learn, and grow.
- Full, manual UK driving licence with no more than 6 points.
What's In It for You
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- A competitive base salary and uncapped bonus potential.
- Company vehicle and a fuel/charging card.
- Extensive onboarding and training process and companywide events in Manchester.
- 33 days holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus paid days off for great moments in life - your birthday, moving home, getting married and moments where you may need more support – fertility treatment, neonatal birth, home emergency day.
- You also have the opportunity to buy additional leave days each year.
- Private healthcare, life insurance and wellbeing support.
- 6% pension contribution.