Area Sales Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Austria.

📋 Description

• Establish and nurture high-quality business relationships with both new and existing customers.

• Conduct daily face-to-face sales meetings with distributors, resellers, and agents.

• Identify current customers with significant growth potential and develop strategic roadmaps for their advancement.

• Discover new business opportunities and finalize the business plan accordingly.

• Implement consistent acquisition strategies to drive sales.

• Engage in consultative selling by identifying customer needs and proposing appropriate Portwest solutions.

• Prepare written proposals and quotations for both existing and prospective clients.

• Promote new Portwest products by presenting samples to potential customers.

• Ensure timely follow-up to successfully close sales deals.

• Continuously assess the market landscape, including trade fairs, seminars, exhibitions, and industry publications.

• Assist distributors in marketing Portwest products to end customers.

• Report directly to the Country Manager.

• Sell Portwest protective workwear, workwear, and PPE to distributors in the Innsbruck/Salzburg region.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in selling PPE, workwear, or safety clothing.

• Ideally, experience in sales for a manufacturer, distributor, reseller, or agent.

• Sales experience in a related industry (such as automotive, tools, chemicals, MRO, etc.) within the same sales network will also be considered.

• A strong willingness to drive Portwest's revenue growth through active field sales.

• A valid Class B driver’s license is required.

• Willingness to travel throughout the region is essential.

• Legal authorization to live and work in the relevant jurisdiction is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment opportunity.

• Equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity.

• Recognized as a Great Place to Work 2024 award-winning employer.

• Awarded Private Irish Business of the Year – Export Industry Awards 2025.

• Achieved Gold EcoVadis Sustainability Rating for 2026.