Area Sales Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTDCity, Manchester🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 9 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Area Sales Manager role offers excellent earning potential with a competitive OTE of £75,000 and a company car, perfect for experienced field sales professionals looking to manage a successful territory with a market-leading manufacturer. You'll thrive in this position if you have a proven track record in capital equipment or technical solutions sales and enjoy a 50/50 split between account management and new business development. Apply to join a well-established and reputable company offering full training and support.

Quick Overview

Salary

£55k/yr

Seniority

Mid Senior

Employment type

Full Time

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

City, Manchester, United Kingdom

Account Management

Job Description

Area Sales Manager
Classic Area Sales role managing existing accounts & generating new business on an established sales territory covering the North of England & Scotland and living on the M62 corridor.
Working for a market leading British manufacturer of packaging machinery & associated flexible packaging consumables.
BASIC SALARY: circa £50,000 Base
BENEFITS: Bonus and Commission for an OTE of circa £75,000 + Choice of Company Car + 8% Pension and Private Healthcare
LOCATION: Home based and covering the North of England & Scotland you will be living on the M62 corridor
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool,Hull, Newcastle, Huddersfield
JOB DESCRIPTION: A classic area sales role managing an established and successful territory and a 50/50 split of account management and new business selling packaging machinery and associated flexible packaging consumables to component manufacturers & the E-commerce market as well as contract packers & distributors.
Full technical support & service back up.
Full Product training will be provided.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
You MUST have a proven track record in field sales and are sales management with specific previous experience of selling capital equipment or a technical solution to the manufacturing market.
Ideally you will have sold to component manufacturers.
You will be willing and able to generate new business.
Any experience of selling to the E-commerce market would be advantageous.
THE COMPANY: A very well established & successful British manufacturer who are part of a well known worldwide corporate group who make and sell a range of packaging machinery and associated flexible packaging consumables to component manufacturers and the E-commerce markets.
A very good client of mine that I have worked with for 14 years and a genuinely nice place to work.
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgment of your application.
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the recruitment partner of our client.
REF: SM18650