Sales Manager – Horticulture & Forestry

October 23, 2025
£30000 - £30000
Urgent

Job Description

Location: Scotland base (East Lothian area)

Employer: Market-leading UK producer of cell-grown native trees & hedging supplying forestry, utilities, housebuilders, contractors, local authorities, and NGOs.

The brief
Our client is the UK s leader in high-scale, biosecure, cell-grown native trees powering commercial forestry, habitat restoration, and large-scale landscaping. Following major investment and rapid growth, they are hiring key Sales Managers to own and grow key customer segments and frameworks nationwide.

What you ll do

  • Own a territory/vertical (e.g., forestry & agents, utilities/infrastructure, housebuilders/landscape contractors, public sector/NGOs).
  • Build multi-year pipelines: contract growing, call-off schedules, and season-by-season demand planning.
  • Win tenders & frameworks; negotiate pricing, specs, and service levels to margin targets.
  • Forecast with precision (volume, species mix, delivery windows) and feed intelligence to production & operations.
  • Visit sites and nurseries; host customer tours; represent the brand at key trade events.
  • Maintain clean CRM, report on revenue, margin, win rate, forecast accuracy.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally on sustainability, provenance, and biosecurity commitments.

What you ll bring

  • Proven B2B sales success ideally in forestry, environmental services, landscaping, horticulture, or agri-inputs.
  • Confidence with tenders/frameworks, longer sales cycles, and multi-stakeholder deals.
  • Commercial acuity: pricing, margin management, and contract terms.
  • Planning mindset: comfortable shaping species mix and delivery schedules months in advance.
  • Excellent stakeholder skills from site managers to procurement and technical advisors.
  • Full UK driving licence; willingness to travel nationally.

Why this move

  • Join the UK leader in a category aligned to nature recovery, carbon, and resilient landscapes.
  • Sell a product with clear technical and sustainability advantages at national scale.
  • Real headroom: growing demand, investment in capacity, and strong repeat programmes.

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