London, UK
Sales manager – Middle East
at Tai Ping Carpets
Tai Ping Carpets has a vacancy for a sales manager for the Middle East to join its team in London.
Sales manager for the Middle East
International luxury brand Tai Ping are looking for a UK-based sales manager for the Middle East to join the global Tai Ping family. A highly organised individual, who is passionate about luxury interior design and is ready to take on new commercial challenges. This exciting full- time role will involve being responsible for growing our trade business in the Middle East, developing a customer base focussed on high-end interior business sectors – residential, hospitality, corporate and boutique retail – and implementing new marketing strategies.
Your principal responsibilities will be to:
- develop and update a reliable and well-targeted database of interior designers
- develop a pipeline of business to grow sales in line with your sales target
- overseas travel to build long-term relationships with key interior designers and generate new business opportunities
- identify the needs of interior designers in order to suggest appropriate high-end textile flooring solutions and specifications, within budgets and timeframes
- provide artistic and technical guidance to interior designers to help develop custom products
- report design, product and sample needs to Tai Ping’s design studio, in a comprehensive and timely manner
- create price quotes in a competitive pricing environment
- lead communication related to project management, be the interface between external and internal parties
- reach sales objectives while maintaining agreed target margins
- report order bookings and invoiced sales in a timely manner to the sales manager
- organise project reviews with all internal and external parties involved, from design concept to installation on site
- collect and report new product needs and market information
- implement marketing strategies throughout the year
Your qualities
For this position, we will require the candidate to have three-plus years’ experience in a similar position within the luxury interior market and a good knowledge of the interior design and decoration industry.
In addition, the job will require the following qualities:
- dynamic and proactive
- objectives and business development oriented
- highly organised and self-motivated
- excellent communication skills, with a very good level of English
- able to work independently and within a team
- sense of diplomacy and team player
- problem-solving and reliable
- confident with IT and knowledge of Microsoft Office
The role will be a mix of home working, overseas travel to the Middle East and working in the London showroom in South Kensington for client and team meetings.
About Tai Ping
Tai Ping is a luxury carpet manufacturer, creating exceptional hand-crafted products since 1956. On a daily basis, Tai Ping artisans transform the most complicated custom designs into works of art that exceed the expectations of discriminating customers worldwide. Tai Ping’s ethos of community, longevity and employee care began in the company’s first workshop in 1956 and it proudly continues today.
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