• SFR RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS

Month: June 2026

Vacancies

Business Development Manager – SFR531

Jun 29, 2026 , , by sfrrecruitment

Business Development Manager – Architectural Ironmongery & Fire Door Solutions

Midlands | Hybrid (1 day office-based)

SFR Recruitment Solutions are working on an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager within the architectural ironmongery and fire door sector.

This is a senior, commercially driven role focused on developing new business, managing key accounts, and delivering technical solutions across the commercial construction market.

The Role

  • Identify and secure new business opportunities with:
    • Door manufacturers
    • Fire door installers
    • Contractors, joinery firms, and specialist fit-out companies
  • Promote and sell:
    • Architectural ironmongery solutions
    • Door hardware packages
    • Fire doors and compliant fire door sets
  • Manage projects from enquiry through to installation, ensuring full compliance with fire, security, and accessibility standards
  • Work closely with internal teams to produce accurate specifications and schedules
  • Build long-term relationships and develop strategic accounts
  • Deliver CPD presentations, product demonstrations, and regular customer engagement
  • Maintain a strong pipeline and report on sales activity, forecasts, and KPIs

What We’re Looking For

  • Proven sales experience within:
    • Architectural ironmongery
    • Door hardware / fire doors
    • Technical construction products
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Ironmongery scheduling
    • Fire door certifications and compliance
    • Door manufacturing processes
  • Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications
  • Excellent relationship-building and negotiation skills
  • Highly organised with strong project management capability
  • Full UK driving licence

The Candidate

  • Self-motivated, target-driven, and commercially focused
  • Professional and confident communicator
  • Technically minded with strong problem-solving ability

What’s on Offer

  • Hybrid working (1 day office-based)
  • Opportunity to work with a growing, well-established market presence
  • Project-led sales environment with strong earning potential
  • Competitive package (details available on request)

📩 For a confidential discussion or to apply, contact SFR Recruitment Solutions

Construction Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Jobs, Construction Vacancies and Specification Positions within:  Door, window, Hardware, Ironmongery, Locks, Fenestration, Hinges, Architectural, Interior Products, Access Control, Fire, Security, Building Products, Fixing, Fasteners, Construction

 

Vacancies

Internal Sales – SFR530

Jun 24, 2026 , , by sfrrecruitment

Internal Sales & Account Developer French & German Speaking Office-based | UK

SFR Recruitment Solutions are proud to be partnering with a well-established and growing organisation within the technical products sector, seeking a French & German speaking Internal Sales & Account Developer to join their team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive, close-knit sales office, where you’ll play a key role in delivering outstanding customer service, providing technical advice, and driving sales growth across both new and existing accounts.

 

The Role

· Manage inbound enquiries via phone and email in a timely, professional manner

· Provide technical advice, pricing and solutions to customers

· Follow up quotations and progress opportunities through to close

· Build and maintain strong relationships with existing customers

· Proactively contact clients to identify new opportunities and upcoming projects

· Support both new business development and account growth

· Analyse customer buying trends and manage pricing structures

· Administer enquiries through shared inboxes and allocate accordingly

· Prepare reports and support the wider sales team where required

 

About You

· Fluent in French and German (essential)

· Experience in an internal sales, customer service or sales support role

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills

· Excellent attention to detail and organisation

· Confident using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)

· Proactive, team-oriented, and able to work independently

· Positive, customer-focused approach with a desire to learn and develop

 

Why Apply?

· Join a well-established, growing business

· Work within a collaborative and supportive team environment

· Opportunity to develop technical knowledge and sales expertise

· Strong long-term career prospects

 

For more information or to apply, please contact SFR Recruitment Solutions directly.

Vacancies

Supply Chain Planner – SFR529

Jun 24, 2026 by sfrrecruitment

Supply Chain Planner  (7 month Contract)

 

 

Location: -– Daventry  – hybrid 3 days in the office currently, usually Monday and two other days

Working hours and pattern: – 8.30am 5.00pm Monday – Thurs, with 1 hour for lunch, Friday 08.30-4.30 with half an hour for lunch.

 

Candidate profile/role details:

MS Dynamics Navision, excel, AGR data planning systems used in this role, experience in this would be great

Demand forecasting and supplier interaction experience

Has experience of placing order expediting, chasing deliveries and closing inventories

Experience of working with the sales team

Displays enthusiasm and drive

 

Key role responsibilities

Managing stock levels and forecasts to meet availability targets and inventory value KPIs

Leading all aspects of planning and forecasting for assigned supply chains

Maintaining planning systems at code level, capturing assumptions (e.g. market trends, launch plans)

Monitoring purchase orders and expediting where needed

Managing forecast changes with suppliers and customers to ensure smooth transitions

Improving stock metrics, reducing over/under stocks, and recommending inventory investments

Generating and using exception reports to optimise performance

Resolving invoice discrepancies, credits, and returns

 

If you are interested in this position, please contact SFR Recruitment Solutions for a complete job description and a confidential conversation.

 

 

Architectural Ironmongery | Internal & External Doors | Access Control | Window & Door Hardware

Vacancies

Regional Sales Manager UK & Ireland – SFR528

Jun 17, 2026 , , , , by sfrrecruitment

📍 UK Wide | Full-Time

We are working with a market-leading manufacturer specialising in innovative solutions designed for healthcare and custodial environments. With strong global growth across EMEA, North America, and Asia-Pacific, the business is continuing to invest in its UK sales function and is now seeking a senior sales leader to drive performance and expansion across the UK & Ireland.

The Role

This is a hands-on leadership position, responsible for leading, developing, and motivating a team of Project Consultants to deliver revenue growth, strengthen strategic relationships, and build a high-performing sales culture.

You’ll play a key role in shaping regional strategy while remaining close to the field—coaching, supporting, and driving performance across the team.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of sales professionals
  • Create a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous improvement
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and set clear targets and development plans
  • Support recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning

Field Leadership & Coaching

  • Spend time in the field supporting customer engagement and deal progression
  • Provide live coaching on sales approach, negotiation, and closing strategies
  • Identify capability gaps and implement development plans

Sales Performance & Pipeline Management

  • Deliver regional revenue and growth targets
  • Monitor pipeline, activity levels, and conversion performance
  • Ensure strong CRM discipline and accurate forecasting
  • Analyse trends and implement corrective actions

Strategic Account Development

  • Lead growth across key strategic and enterprise accounts
  • Build senior-level relationships with customers
  • Support team members in identifying and developing opportunities

Major Opportunities

  • Oversee high-value and complex sales opportunities
  • Lead commercial strategy, negotiations, and presentations
  • Coordinate internal stakeholders to secure successful outcomes

Regional Planning

  • Develop and execute the regional sales strategy
  • Lead planning sessions and quarterly business reviews
  • Maintain strong market awareness and competitor insight

What We’re Looking For

  • Proven experience leading and developing a B2B sales team
  • Strong track record of delivering against revenue targets
  • Experience managing strategic accounts and complex sales cycles
  • Commercially aware with excellent negotiation skills
  • Strong leadership presence with a coaching mindset
  • Analytical approach to sales performance and forecasting
  • Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Personal Attributes

  • Results-driven and highly accountable
  • Strong communicator and relationship builder
  • Customer-focused and commercially astute
  • Proactive, organised, and resilient
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growth environment

What Success Looks Like

  • Building a high-performing, engaged sales team
  • Consistently delivering revenue and growth targets
  • Strengthening key customer relationships
  • Improving pipeline quality and conversion
  • Embedding a strong sales culture across the region

📩 For a confidential discussion, please contact SFR Recruitment Solutions

Construction Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Jobs, Construction Vacancies and Specification Positions within:  Door, window, Hardware, Ironmongery, Locks, Fenestration, Hinges, Architectural, Interior Products, Access Control, Fire, Security, Building Products, Fixing, Fasteners, Construction

 

Vacancies

Project Consultant – SFR526

Jun 10, 2026 , , , by sfrrecruitment

Project Consultant (Specification Sales)

📍 UK – West Midlands / Wales & East Midlands & North East
💼 Exclusive Retained Search

SFR Recruitment Solutions are working on an exclusive retained assignment to recruit a Project Consultant for a growing, specialist manufacturer within the healthcare and construction sector.

🚀 The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business at the forefront of specialist product innovation, working closely with NHS Trusts, architects, and contractors to support projects from initial concept through to completion.

You’ll act as a trusted advisor, ensuring solutions are specified correctly and delivered to meet both clinical and operational needs.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with NHS estates teams, architects, contractors and project managers
  • Provide technical and product guidance to support specification and design decisions
  • Manage projects from initial enquiry through to specification and delivery
  • Produce accurate, compliant specifications in collaboration with internal teams
  • Maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities via CRM systems
  • Attend site visits, offering technical support to keep projects on track
  • Ensure consistent follow-up and progression through the project lifecycle

✅ What We’re Looking For

  • Experience in specification sales, project consultancy or technical sales
  • Background in construction, building products, or healthcare environments
  • Strong understanding of the specification process and project lifecycle
  • Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders across complex projects
  • Commercial awareness with a proactive, consultative approach
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects and travel across your region

💡 Desirable Experience

  • Knowledge of healthcare or mental health design environments
  • Understanding of specialist safety-led solutions
  • CSCS and/or SMSTS certification
  • Experience using CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce)

🌟 Why Apply?

  • Opportunity to work on meaningful projects within healthcare environments
  • Join a growing and innovative business with strong market presence
  • Clear opportunity to influence specifications and project outcomes
  • Supportive, team-focused culture with long-term career development

📩 For a confidential discussion, please contact SFR Recruitment Solutions

Construction Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Jobs, Construction Vacancies and Specification Positions within:  Door, window, Hardware, Ironmongery, Locks, Fenestration, Hinges, Architectural, Interior Products, Access Control, Fire, Security, Building Products, Fixing, Fasteners, Construction

 

 

Vacancies

Key Account Manager – SFR525

Jun 10, 2026 , , by sfrrecruitment

🔹 Key Account Manager – Industrial Distribution

📍 South (Oxfordshire / Milton Keynes ideal) | 🏠 Remote / Field-Based
💼 Full-Time, Permanent

SFR Recruitment Solutions are exclusively supporting the search for an experienced Key Account Manager to lead and develop major national distributor accounts within the industrial sector.

This is a high-impact role focused on managing and growing key relationships with Arco, Lyreco and Cromwell, driving category growth and strengthening market presence across safety and industrial product ranges.

💼 The Role

  • Take full commercial ownership of key national accounts
  • Drive revenue growth, market share and category expansion
  • Build strong multi-level relationships across buying, category, sales and marketing teams
  • Develop and deliver joint business plans and quarterly reviews
  • Identify opportunities across catalogue, online and branch channels
  • Support customer field sales teams with training, proposals and joint visits
  • Track performance, pipeline and promotional activity
  • Deliver product training and support onboarding of customer teams
  • Conduct site surveys across the South, providing reports and recommendations
  • Collaborate internally across marketing, technical, operations and customer service teams

✅ About You

  • Proven experience selling into national industrial distributors (e.g. Arco, Lyreco, Cromwell or similar)
  • Background in industrial sectors (MRO, safety, PPE, engineering, tools etc.)
  • Strong relationship builder with a commercial mindset
  • Confident presenting, influencing and leading discussions at all levels
  • Data-aware with the ability to spot growth opportunities
  • Organised, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities
  • Based in or around Oxfordshire / Milton Keynes with flexibility to travel

🎯 What’s on Offer

  • Remote / field-based role with autonomy
  • Full training provided (technical, surveys, products and systems)
  • Structured support, coaching and clear progression
  • Opportunity to manage high-value national accounts
  • Work with a well-established brand and market-leading product range

📩 If you have experience managing national distributor accounts and are looking to take ownership of key relationships in a growth-focused environment, apply today or contact SFR Recruitment Solutions for a confidential discussion.

Vacancies

Global Estimating Manager – SFR523

Jun 8, 2026 , , , by sfrrecruitment

🌍 Global Estimating Manager

📍 International / Leadership Opportunity

SFR Recruitment Solutions are working on an exclusive retained search for a Global Estimating Manager to lead and develop a high-performing international estimating function within a growing, specialist manufacturing organisation.

🚀 The Opportunity

This is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing the global estimating function, ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of quotations, tender submissions and technical support across multiple regions.

You’ll play a key role in shaping strategy, improving processes, and driving consistency across international teams. Hybrid, 3 days on site.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, mentor and develop a global estimating team
  • Drive performance, accountability and continuous improvement

Strategy & Process Improvement

  • Develop and implement a global estimating strategy aligned with growth plans
  • Standardise systems, processes and best practice (including Driveworks)

Estimating & Quotation Management

  • Oversee the creation of accurate, high-quality quotations
  • Ensure all quotes align with client specifications and are efficiently managed through revisions
  • Implement robust quality control processes

Tender Management

  • Take ownership of global tender submissions
  • Ensure accurate, timely and commercially competitive responses

Technical & Commercial Support

  • Act as a central technical support function for the wider sales team
  • Provide guidance on product selection, compatibility and alternative solutions

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with Engineering, Product Development, Operations and Installation teams
  • Ensure alignment between technical design, compliance standards and production capability

📊 Additional Responsibilities

  • Maintain accurate records of estimating activity and pipeline opportunities
  • Support global alignment of standards, documentation and training
  • Attend internal meetings and reporting forums as required

✅ What We’re Looking For

  • Strong background in estimating within construction, manufacturing or building products
  • Proven experience managing teams, ideally across multiple regions
  • Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
  • Experience with configuration / quoting tools (e.g. Driveworks) and CRM systems
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail
  • Commercially aware with the ability to balance accuracy and efficiency

💡 Why Apply?

  • Key leadership role within a growing international business
  • Opportunity to shape global processes and strategy
  • Collaborative, values-driven environment focused on quality and innovation

📩 For a confidential discussion, please contact SFR Recruitment Solutions.

Construction Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Jobs, Construction Vacancies and Specification Positions within:  Door, window, Hardware, Ironmongery, Locks, Fenestration, Hinges, Architectural, Interior Products, Access Control, Fire, Security, Building Products, Fixing, Fasteners, Construction.

 

Vacancies

Technical Support Specialist – SFR522

Jun 3, 2026 , , , by sfrrecruitment

SFR Recruitment Solutions are working with a growing and ambitious business looking to strengthen their technical team. If you’ve got a background in CCTV, access control, gate automation or security systems — this could be a great move.

🔧 The Role

You’ll be the go-to person for customers needing:
✅ Technical support
✅ Product advice
✅ Troubleshooting assistance

You’ll work closely with installers, fabricators, and contractors — helping them solve problems, configure systems, and get the best from a wide range of products.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role where you’ll build strong relationships and become a true product specialist.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

✔ Experience in CCTV / access control / gate automation / security systems
✔ Background in installation, commissioning, technical support or engineering
✔ Strong problem-solving skills and a customer-first mindset
✔ Confident communicator who can explain technical solutions clearly

🎁 What’s on Offer

✨ Performance bonus scheme
✨ Full product & industry training
✨ Private healthcare (after qualifying period)
✨ Birthday off + holiday purchase scheme
✨ Early finish Fridays
✨ Modern offices + great team culture
✨ Clear progression within a growing business

💬 If you’re looking to move into — or develop further within — a technical support role in a growing sector, I’d be keen to speak with you.

📩 Get in touch with SFR Recruitment Solutions to find out more.

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