Field Sales Professionals – North West

Smiths Hire are the Northwest’s Largest Independent Equipment Hire Company with 18 Depots located across the Region. Due to expansion and positive growth within the business, we are looking for experienced, sales driven Business Development Managers in the North West region.


All CVs will be reviewed and Candidates will be contacted after Monday 6th January 2025

The Role:

Business Development Managers – North West

We are always looking for the best of the best in the North West to join our growing business. So, we’re looking for highly experienced field sales professionals, who want a new challenge who have the proven ability to hit sales growth targets, and work well under pressure. Hire industry experience is desirable but not essential.

Sales development needs to be second nature, an instinctive ability to focus on identifying leads, researching, and developing new markets, moving them along the sales cycle toward a closing.

In our experience, real hire sales success comes from relationship building with our local depot managers, we believe it’s a crucial part to this role, so you need to be a people person and self-motivated, willing to champion your depots and region with a ‘customer first’ culture to deliver a first-class customer journey and a commitment to deliver incremental sales figures for which you will be highly rewarded.

You must be able to think tactically and strategically on a local and regional level and be able to see the bigger picture when it reveals itself whilst also supporting your colleagues to achieve both personal and depot sales targets. Overall, you must have the ability to sell at a high level and work across a variety of stakeholders.

Specialising in the following:

  • Field sales/management experience in any sector.
  • Cold and warm calling.
  • Sales closing capabilities.
  • Business opportunity seeker.
  • Growth strategist.
  • Relationship/partnership builder.
  • Client success managing.
  • Solutions expertise.
  • Analytical – data led.
  • Influencer and negotiator

The Rewards:

Smiths Hire have family values and have been working to this mantra for over 53 years and still have the ambition to keep moving this legacy hire business forward with projected additional growth. We pride ourselves on being somewhere where you can deliver your best work and a great place to work. That’s why we are committed to looking after our staff with some of the best working practices and personal benefits in the independent hire industry.

Good company culture. We believe in leadership and transparent communications. We listen to our staff and allow them to influence objectives that impact their role and success.  

Career opportunities. We work with you to help you achieve your long-term career goals, your goals are our goals, we are committed to internal training and career development.

Quality leaders. You will be surrounded by quality leadership, to help you accomplish your goals. Our leadership team are passionate about the business and want you to succeed.

Work life balance. Working with Smiths Hire takes away the need to travel to far, other than during the typical working day, localised customers help with your work life balance, we’ve learnt that happier families make happier people at work.

££ Highly Competitive Salary + Uncapped Bonus + Car

  •  Laptop & Mobile Phone.
  • 25 Days plus statutory holidays (33 days in total).
  • An extra 2 days holiday after 5 years’ service.
  • Weekly pay.
  • FREE tool hire for all employees – Excluding consumables and delivery.
  • Group Life Cover is provided at three times your annual salary.
  • My Wellbeing Services.
  • Employee Referral Scheme.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Full uniform provided.
  • Discounted personal legal services.

If you have the key skills and experience needed to deliver sales targets, and you are looking for a new challenge, we would like to hear from you!

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