Regional Account Manager United Kingdom
Job description
Regional Account Manager
Hybrid (Field-based)
Region Covering: Western mainland UK - Birmingham, Stoke, Wrexham area
Role key themes:
As an RS Regional Account Manager, you will be integral to the success and growth of our business and a key contributor to the maintenance and development of the company’s outstanding reputation in our field.
With responsibility for overseeing and developing the largest accounts within the region, you will work daily with a wide range of individuals, from a diverse array of clients, across a multitude of industries. Using a belend of virtual and face to face meetings to establish and grow your relationships with your clients, you will create sustainable trusted partner relationships by discovering opportunities and delivering value.
You will have accountability and ownership for your area. Beyond nurturing and developing your existing accounts using a strategic and solution-led approach, you will also work to establish new business and grow your portfolio within the region you manage. You will develop a diverse stakeholder network with your customers at all levels across relevant functional departments, creating engagement and establishing consensus.
Your skills & experience:
An agile and openminded thinker, you are someone who has the ability to think broadly and who recognises that having the correct mindset and attitude, along with an organised approach, is key to success.
A self-motivated and independent individual, you are someone who draws confidence from your previous experience from a variety of field-based account management and sales roles.
You work well under pressure and have previous experience of business planning, project management and a measured approach to your work, with the ability to bring people together along a planned route.
With a proven track record in negotiations, contract delivery and success, you still harbour the appetite to learn and grown within a role.
And to top it all off… you hold a current UK Drivers Licence!
We are RS:
At RS UK, part of RS Group, we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.
We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.
We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.
Come and join our UK team with over 2000 colleagues in this region – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.
What you can expect
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare and 30 days holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:
Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.
Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all
