Account Manager

CARTERS Tauranga has an oppportunity for an experienced, highly motivated Account Manager as part of its growth strategy for one of the fastest developing cities in the country.

Our ideal candidate will have a trade or construction background in Account Management with strong local connections and established relationships with residential builders, commercial construction contractors and developers in the Bay of Plenty Region.

Supported by the Branch Manager and Area Sales Manager, you would join a well established branch team situated in a fantastic central location with great access to important future urban growth areas. CARTERS Tauranga has a broad customer base with strong share of commercial, group and independent residential builders. You will manage an existing ledger while developing new business - spending the majority of your time visiting building sites, identifying opportunities and understanding your customers' builds, offering solutions and anticipating what your customers need next.

Your existing customers would describe you as someone who makes an immediate impact, who understands their needs and provides highly beneficial solutions and outcomes when it matters the most.

You'll have the autonomy and flexibility to manage a call cycle while also developing and maintaining supplier relationships to ensure we provide complete solutions and packages for customers.

You will also value the importance of working as part of a team to achieve the overall goal of providing exceptional service for our valued customers.

You will collaborate with internal teams around stock availability, delivery times and pricing to ensure customer needs are met and issues resolved in a timely manner. You will also drive the sales process through Frame and Truss Manufacturing from estimates through to production.

Skills & Experience

The ideal candidate will be a natural when it comes to customer service and sales as well as a true hunter. You will also possess the following qualities:

• Solid planning and organisational skills
• A proven sales and relationship management track record
• An eye for emerging markets
• Highly self-motivated with exceptional work ethic
• Strong commercial adaptability and agility
• Solutions-focused
• Building or trade industry knowledge is advantageous

What we offer

In return, we'll make sure you're looked after in a professional, positive, inclusive and supportive working environment that you can be proud of. We offer:

• A highly competitive base salary plus incentives, Vehicle, laptop & mobile
• 7.5% Benefits Package, includes Superannuation Savings Scheme, Life & Disability Insurance
• We also pay for your Southern Cross Health Insurance
• Training, development, coaching and promotional opportunities
• Supportive, respectful, fun, collaborative, diverse team
• Buying privileges across all Carters stores

If this sounds like you, we'd be keen to hear from you. Apply to work with CARTERS today. You won't look back!