JOBS: Petzl Sales Representative Middle England

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Lyon Equipment Limited (Lyon) is an employee owned Company serving the outdoor and professional work at height and rescue markets with equipment and expertise to venture further. The Petzl UK Agency is part of Lyon. Lyon manufacture Lyon branded products, distribute for a portfolio of trusted brands and provide technical training. Lyon provides a friendly, contemporary, dynamic working environment and values a good work life balance.

The Petzl UK Agency

This is an exciting time for Lyon and Petzl; in order to increase Petzl sales in the UK and Republic of Ireland, Lyon are developing a team dedicated to servicing Petzl’s growing position in an ever changing market place. This new venture with Petzl will enhance and strengthen our long standing market relationships.
The Petzl UK Agency team are all employed by Lyon Equipment Limited. The Agency will be based from Lyon’s head office in Tebay, Cumbria and will provide the following functions; marketing, on the road sales representation, sales support, technical advice, order processing and customer services.


The Petzl Middle England and Wales Sales Representative will be responsible for selling Petzl products into both the professional work at height and outdoor markets. The territory to be covered is outlined within the application pack on our website.

The job requires someone who is equally comfortable carrying out day to day administrative functions as well as face to face meetings with customers. We are therefore looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and organised people person to drive the future growth of Petzl. A good current working knowledge of both the professional work at height and outdoor market is preferable although training will be provided for the right candidate.


Reporting to the UK Petzl Country Manager, the job will involve:
• Meeting and exceeding sales objectives
• Building new and existing relationships with customers via face to face customer visits, telephone and email
contact etc.
• Promotion and sales of Petzl products at regional, national and international trade shows and events
• Keeping up to date with current Petzl product, technical specification and usage of Petzl products and those
of our competitors
• Social media posting in line with social media strategy
• Reporting regularly on customers and their sales performance to management and the sales office team
• Participation at Petzl sales meetings as required, both at Lyon head office and Petzl France
• Assist the Petzl agency team when required with; marketing, order processing, returns and providing
technical information for customer enquiries
• A considerable amount of self-managed travelling, predominantly driving
• Organisation of personal workload to ensure minimum working outside normal hours
• Overnight stays whilst on the road


The person we seek will ideally meet the following essential criteria:
• Have a genuine passion for the vertical world
• Have proven sales experience
• Be self-motivated, able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Reside within the sales territory
• Have an active understanding of market trends – both outdoor and professional work at height and rescue
• Be a confident user of social media, e.g. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, in order to increase the reach of
our sponsored events
• Be organised, articulate and have a good level of literacy and numeracy
• Enjoy learning and development
• Be versatile and happy to help with other agency functions as necessary
• Hold a current full car driving licence (preferably clean) and a current passport

Hours of work:
This is a full time position which on average equates to 37.5 hours a week. We would expect the work to be carried out between Monday and Friday, however this position will require regular overnight stays and some weekend working. This is a home based position.

The successful candidate will be provided with the following:
• Company vehicle
• Computer, tablet and printer
• Mobile phone, business telephone line into home, telephone and fax machine
• All necessary and reasonable stationery and consumables


Full details and an application pack can be downloaded here. https://www.lyon.co.uk/outdoor/news-and-articles/179-vacancy-petzl-sales-re...

Closing date for applications: 12:00 on 28th June 2016
Interviews for this post are likely to take place the week commencing 18th July 2016

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