Keystone Group
Technical Sales Manager
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About The Role
At Keystone Lintels, we’re looking for an ambitious and commercially focused Technical Sales Manager to join our House-Builder team to cover the South East area.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing new business, growing existing customer relationships and achieving sales targets across our key housebuilder and Contractor customer base. You’ll play a key role in strengthening Keystone Lintels’ market position and delivering our wider sales growth strategy.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Introduce Keystone Group products and develop working relationships with both existing and new customers within the house building industry.
- Agree and ensure that customer sales targets, national account targets and budgets are achieved or exceeded.
- Identify actual and prospective business opportunities; negotiate trading terms within the agreed parameters.
- Maintain, develop and improve relationships with our key customers.
- Develop awareness of the Keystone Group amongst house builders.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
Success in this role comes from combining a customer-first approach with strong commercial awareness, excellent communication skills and a genuine drive to achieve results. You will also demonstrate:
- Excellent customer service and relationship management skills, with the ability to build trust and develop long-term relationships with customers and colleagues.
- Strong commercial awareness and the confidence to identify, develop and convert new business opportunities.
- Ability to gain an understanding of technical products and confidently respond to customer queries relating to them.
- A self-motivated, positive and resilient approach, with the determination to achieve and exceed targets.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
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What We’re Looking For
- Previous experience within the construction industry is desirable, particularly experience working with national and regional housebuilders and Contractors.
- Experience using CRM systems.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- A full, clean UK driving licence is essential, as the role involves regular travel to customer offices and sites.
- Flexibility to attend customer meetings, events and other business activities at weekends and outside of normal working hours when required.
What We Offer
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression
- A supportive, values-driven and inclusive working environment
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- 33 days annual leave, increasing with service
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Healthcare Cashback Plan
- Enhanced Family Friendly policies
- Additional employee benefits including, access to our Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Discount Scheme, Employee Recognition awards, Employee Assistance Programme.
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A Bit About Us
For more than three decades, the Keystone Group has grown to become one of the UK and Ireland’s largest family-owned construction product manufacturers. Driven by a relentless focus on innovation and customer excellence, the Group employs over 2,000 employees across 28 sites, supplying cutting-edge building solutions to growing markets in the UK & Ireland, Europe, Australia and North America. Its portfolio includes market-leading brands in the steel, light & environmental and timber sectors.
Keystone Lintels is part of Keystone Group and is proud to lead the way in steel lintel design, production and service. Keystone Lintels has dedicated technical teams that provide customers with solutions for their complex project needs. Production facilities in Derbyshire, England and Cookstown, Northern Ireland enable Keystone Lintels to provide a fast and efficient service to its extensive network of merchant partners across the UK and Ireland.
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