Area Sales Manager

• Permanent field sales role and account management opportunity
• Join one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of trusted sealants and adhesives
• Supportive, inclusive culture with genuine career development
• Strong focus on wellbeing, flexibility and work-life balance
• Excellent salary, benefits and long-term security

Area Sales Manager

The Role

Bostik is looking for an Area Sales Manager to join its successful construction team, representing a portfolio of trusted sealants and adhesives used every day across the UK.

Covering a well-established territory across northwest England and north Wales, you’ll work closely with builders’ merchants including Jewson, Travis Perkins, independent merchants and buying groups. Your role will focus on developing existing relationships, growing sales and helping customers maximise the success of the Bostik range.

No two days are the same. You’ll visit customers across your territory, deliver in-branch trade days, improve point-of-sale displays, support promotional activity alongside Key Account Managers and provide engaging product training to merchant sales teams. You’ll also use Salesforce to manage customer activity and plan account development.

About You

We’re looking for someone who enjoys building lasting relationships and delivering excellent customer service. You may already be working in field sales or territory management, or have sales experience within a builders’ merchant or trade distribution environment.

You’ll also have

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• A commercial, analytical approach to developing accounts
• A full UK driving licence
• Flexibility for occasional overnight stays

Why Bostik?

Part of the global Arkema Group (20,000+ employees, €9.5bn revenue), Bostik offers the stability of a market leader alongside a genuinely supportive and inclusive culture. The business invests in its people, values collaboration and wellbeing, and offers excellent opportunities for long-term career development.

Package

• £30,000-£35,000 basic salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• Hybrid company car
• Up to 12% employer pension contribution
• Healthcare cash plan
• Enhanced maternity and sick pay
• Flexible working hours and discretionary flexitime
• Lunch allowance when working externally
• 26.5 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Location: Preston, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Oldham, Manchester, Wigan, Warrington, Liverpool, Chester, Halifax, Huddersfield