Area Sales Manager – Care & Healthcare Sector
Southeast (home-based)
Covering Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Reading
£45,000 basic + genuinely uncapped commission
Current area average bonus £47,500 - top performers earning £80,000+
If you've read a hundred adverts promising "uncapped commission" with a footnote that quietly caps it, this one's different. This territory turned over between £900,000 and £1,000,000 last year, split between someone doing two jobs at once. Give it your full attention and the ceiling genuinely isn't there.
My clients design, install and support nurse-call and alerting systems for care homes and hospitals, the kind of kit that quietly keeps vulnerable people safe. It's a growing sector (an ageing population isn't a trend, it's a certainty) and the company kept hospitals like the Nightingales supplied through Covid. Staff don't tend to leave. One member of the team told us, in all seriousness, she expects to be there until she's "carried out in a box".
What you'll be doing- Owning a defined Southeast patch (Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, south of the Thames, up to Reading), visiting care homes and hospitals to understand what they need and designing the right system for them.
- Working a healthy mix of warm leads (marketing and an outbound team feed you roughly half your pipeline) and your own self-generated business.
- Building relationships that last. This is a consultative, relationship-led sell to receptive customers, not cold, pushy sales.
- Managing your own diary and territory like it's your own business, because that's how the company treats it.
What you'll get- £45,000 basic salary.
- Genuinely uncapped commission. Current area average bonus is £47,500 a year on top of basic. Someone focused solely on this patch (rather than splitting time with other duties, as it's currently being run) has a realistic route to £80,000+ total earnings.
- Choice of a company car (BMW or Mercedes EV, via the standard P11D scheme) or a £400 monthly vehicle allowance if you'd rather use your own car.
- 45p per mile paid for business use of a personal vehicle.
- Company phone and laptop.
- 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Pension.
- A company that genuinely means it when it says it looks after its people. Flex is there for the people who put the work in around it.
What you'll need- Proven B2B field sales or account management experience, ideally managing a defined territory. Software-only or purely internal sales won't give you what this role needs.
- You're comfortable being self-directed. Nobody is going to be checking in on you daily and nobody wants to.
- You live within, or are genuinely willing to relocate to, the territory (Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, south of the Thames/M25, Reading).
- A full UK driving licence and you're happy on the road most days.
- Confident, credible, professional in front of care and clinical professionals.
- Technical or solution-sales background is a bonus but not essential. Full product training is given.
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