Most building products jobs want 10 years in the industry before they’ll talk to you. This one doesn’t. If you can win new business, build real relationships and follow a deal through to the end, we can teach you the product. You’d be representing beautiful, high-end natural stone, porcelain and engineered timber flooring. It’s an easy product to be proud of when you’re sitting with an architect or builder.
About the company
Our client is a long-established, family-built supplier of premium surfaces with more than 50 years in the market and national turnover of around $80–90 million. They’ve been growing steadily in Queensland and have just opened a brand-new showroom.
The business is stable and well-resourced, and it backs its people.
What you’ll be doing
- Winning new business across the Gold Coast. This is mostly a hunting role.
- Building relationships with architects and interior designers, builders and subcontractors
- Getting products specified on projects, then protecting that spec through to delivery
- Working with estimators, contract administrators and developer design teams to keep projects on track
- Managing a 50/50 mix of commercial and residential work, with projects from about $20k up to $500k
- A proven B2B sales track record in any industry. Building products, interiors, A&D, construction, hospitality supply, industrial and B2B services backgrounds all work.
- A genuine liking for new business: making the first call, getting in the door and staying the course
- Someone who’s curious, coachable and confident in front of creative and technical people
- An eye for design or an interest in it is a real plus
- Existing relationships with architects and designers, or experience specifying any interior product, will put you ahead (not essential)
- You must live on the Gold Coast or in South Brisbane
- $100,000–$110,000 base + super
- $18,000 car allowance
- Uncapped commission, with $20–30k realistic on top in your first year and plenty of room to grow from there
- A premium product range that’s easy to back
- A new showroom to host clients in
- A stable employer that has kept people in this role long term (the current benchmark is 4 years)
- Real ownership of your territory