Account Director

Are you an Account Director who gets a buzz out of creating a fantastic customer experience and developing outstanding long lasting relationships? 

Are you motivated by developing sales opportunities and looking for a new exciting challenge that is a key strategic focus for the business? 

Are you a fantastic leader that can influence and collaborate to deliver success for customers?
 

The role is field based and hybrid working across South West and Wales regions

You are expected to join our regional sales meetings every other month

Then look no further!

Travis Perkins has a really exciting opportunity for an Account Director to join the business and take full responsibility for the growth and development of the House Builders and Regional Developer customers. This is a new and developing focus within Travis Perkins strategy and will involve the Account Director developing long lasting strategic relationships and achieving optimum ‘share of wallet’ of material spend to help grow and develop our Regional House Builder proposition.

It is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is really driven to make a difference and build success!

What you’ll do

You’ll work closely with the customer, coordinating all activities on behalf of TP to create value and enhance the overall fantastic customer experience.  Through strong internal relationships you'll influence the business to ensure the customers' needs and requirements are met whilst pulling together the value propositions on their respective product categories. Whilst our focus is on our customer relationship, we also believe that our suppliers are equally important, by ensuring they have a platform to offer the best to our customers, through innovation and adding value, you’ll work closely with them to drive profitable growth.

Is this you?

To be selected in this role you will come from an external sales background and have proven history in winning new business, ideally within the house building market but this is not essential. You will have a flair for sales, be able to demonstrate excellent communication and listening skills whilst being able to influence key stakeholders. Customer focused, good negotiator and sound commercial awareness will all help you to be the best within this role. You will also have project management experience as this is a key to developing success for our customers.
    
What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus

• Company Car 

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses including; special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

About us

You’ve probably heard of us, you’d have seen our trucks on the road, and more than likely would have seen a bag of our sand on your neighbours driveway. But there is more to us than just that. With over 20 businesses in the group, spanning over 1,900+ locations, we are the UK's largest distributor of building materials to the building, construction and home improvement markets.

We have over 20,000+ colleagues that are committed to providing an unrivalled level of service to our customers. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 

We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves. 

You be you, it makes us, us!

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

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