Area Sales Manager

TCS Consulting
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4JA, United Kingdom
Last month
£50,000 pa

Salary

£50,000 pa

Posted
15 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Area Sales Manager – North East England

Home Based | North East Territory

TCS Consulting is recruiting on behalf of a well-established and growing industrial automation business that supplies solutions into OEMs, system integrators, panel builders, and end users across the UK.

Due to continued growth, our client is looking to appoint an Area Sales Manager to take ownership of the North East England territory.

The Role

This is a field-based, commercial role focused on developing new business while strengthening and growing existing customer relationships across the territory.

The successful candidate will manage their own sales area, working closely with internal sales, technical teams, and senior management to deliver sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities

*

Take full ownership of the sales budget for the North East England territory

*

Manage and grow relationships with existing customers including:

*

OEMs

*

System integrators

*

Panel builders

*

Distributors

*

End users

*

Identify and develop new business opportunities across the region

*

Expand product penetration and solution sales within existing accounts

*

Work closely with the Head of Sales, internal sales team, technical managers, and support functions to execute the commercial strategy

*

Maintain accurate records of activity, opportunities, and forecasts using the CRM system

*

Provide regular sales reporting, forecasting, and expense management

*

Attend exhibitions, customer meetings, and industry events as required

*

Contribute ideas and insight to support the continued growth of the business

*

Take responsibility for personal performance, development, and continuous improvement

*

Ensure full compliance with company policies, quality systems, and health and safety standards

Candidate Profile

Essential:

- Minimum 3 years’ experience in an external field sales role

- Proven new business development capability

- Experience selling into system integrators, OEM machine builders, panel builders, or distributors

- Demonstrable track record of short- and long-term sales success

- Strong organisation, planning, and time-management skills

- Comfortable working autonomously in a home-based, territory role

- Confident building relationships at multiple levels within customer organisations

- Strong IT skills, including CRM and Microsoft Office

- Full UK driving licence and right to work in the UK

Desirable:

*

Experience working for or against a direct competitor

*

Electrical or engineering background, either formal or practical

*

Professional sales training or qualifications

Location & Travel

*

Home based

*

Ideally located within the North East of England, for example Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Teesside, or surrounding areas

*

Regular travel across the North East territory is required

What’s on Offer

*

Competitive basic salary

*

Company car or car allowance

*

Bonus and commission structure

*

Pension and benefits package

*

Long-term career development within a growing business

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Area Sales Manager

Verto People Manchester, United Kingdom

Sales Engineer

TCS Consulting Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4JA, United Kingdom
£45,000 – £55,000 pa

Sales Engineer

TCS Consulting Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, DL6 3QB, United Kingdom
£45,000 – £55,000 pa

Electrical Field Service Engineer

Hunter Selection Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
£36,000 – £40,000 pa On-site

Maintenance Area Manager

Amazon Rugby, United Kingdom
Permanent

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Robotics Jobs in the UK: Roles, Skills, Salaries and How to Get Hired (2026 Guide)

Robotics Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and skills for engineers and researchers in manufacturing, logistics, autonomous vehicles, defence and healthcare. In the UK, most robotics jobs cluster around hubs such as London, Cambridge, Bristol, Oxford, Manchester and Edinburgh, with common titles including Robotics Engineer, SLAM Engineer, Controls Engineer and Mechatronics Engineer. The most efficient way to browse live robotics jobs is via specialist boards like RoboticsJobs.co.uk, which curate roles specifically in this field so you are not lost in generic tech listings. This guide covers everything you need to know about robotics jobs in the UK in 2026, from the roles and skills in demand to where to find live opportunities and how to stand out as a candidate.

Where to Advertise Robotics Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Where to advertise robotics jobs UK in 2026: the specialist boards, university channels and community routes that reach robotics, SLAM and controls talent. The candidate pool spans mechanical engineers, software developers, controls specialists, computer vision researchers and systems integrators — a multidisciplinary mix that general job boards are poorly equipped to reach. The strongest robotics candidates are often embedded in research groups, defence programmes or advanced manufacturing environments, and move between roles through specialist networks and industry events rather than mainstream platforms. This guide, published by RoboticsJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise robotics roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

Robotics Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Robotics Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and the automation hiring trends shaping UK robotics careers over the next three years — industrial, service and humanoid. Robotics is having a moment that feels qualitatively different from the cycles of hype and disappointment that have characterised the sector in previous decades. The convergence of advances in AI, computer vision, battery technology, and hardware manufacturing has brought robotics to an inflection point — one where the gap between what robots can do in controlled laboratory conditions and what they can do in the unpredictable complexity of the real world is closing faster than at any previous point in the discipline's history. For job seekers, this inflection point is creating a jobs market that is expanding rapidly across a far wider range of industries and role types than robotics has historically occupied. Automotive and manufacturing remain significant employers, but they are now joined by logistics and warehousing, healthcare, agriculture, construction, defence, and the emerging category of humanoid robotics — each generating distinct hiring demand and drawing on overlapping but meaningfully different skill sets. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the sector is heading — which application areas are scaling from pilot to production, which technologies are defining the architecture of modern robotic systems, and how the definition of a robotics career is evolving beyond the mechanical engineering core toward a much richer intersection of software, AI, and systems engineering. This article breaks down what the UK robotics jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career at the leading edge of one of the most exciting technology transitions of the coming decade.