Sales Account Manager - Timber
As an Account Manager in our Timber team, you are the face of Hilti and the very foundation of our direct sales model. This role is all about having meaningful interactions with customers and taking a consultative approach to support them in improving productivity, safety, and sustainability.
This position covers the territory from Sheffield to Peterborough.
What does the role involve?
On a day-to-day basis, you can expect to:
- Go out into the field each day to see our customers, ask them open questions to understand their needs and provide a tailor-made solution
- Demonstrate our innovative products and state-of-the-art software to customers on-site
- Further develop ‘focus’ customers by building relationships, as well as uncovering new business leads
- Be responsible for the operational, organisational and strategic management of your sales area, fully utilizing the top-in-class CRM system, Salesforce
What you need is:
- Customer-facing/sales experience gained in any industry
- Solution-oriented approach – you have the ability to uncover customers’ pain points and needs in order to provide our best-suited solutions
- You share our values – commitment, teamwork, courage and integrity
- Resilience and adaptability – you will be comfortable to meet all levels of customer from a site operator to managing director
- Drive – a motivated approach to achieving success and overcoming challenges
- Curiosity – you have a passion to learn, develop and grow
- Organizational skills – you are excellent at managing your time and priorities, and can easily work autonomously
- A full, clean, manual UK driving license to visit our customers on site 5 days a week, Monday to Friday
We have an excellent mix of people and some of our best account managers joined us with no experience. So, if you’ve never worked in sales or construction, that’s fine with us. Success at Hilti is down to teamwork and ability, no matter what your background.
What do we offer?
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- Company vehicle and fuel card for sales roles
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
- Customer-facing/sales experience gained in any industry
- Solution-oriented approach – you have the ability to uncover customers’ pain points and needs in order to provide our best-suited solutions
- You share our values – commitment, teamwork, courage and integrity
- Resilience and adaptability – you will be comfortable to meet all levels of customer from a site operator to managing director
- Drive – a motivated approach to achieving success and overcoming challenges
- Curiosity – you have a passion to learn, develop and grow
- Organizational skills – you are excellent at managing your time and priorities, and can easily work autonomously
- A full, clean, manual UK driving license to visit our customers on site 5 days a week, Monday to Friday
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- Company vehicle and fuel card for sales roles
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams