Area Manager

Niche Recruitment Ltd
📍 Blackmore End, Essex, United Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 27, 2026

Job Description

A senior leadership role with full commercial and operational ownership. If you are an experienced manager ready to lead a multi-site business unit for one of the UK's most respected fuel suppliers, Watson Fuels wants to hear from you.

Niche Recruitment is proud to be partnering with Watson Fuels to recruit an Area Manager covering Braintree and the surrounding depots. This is a significant leadership role with genuine breadth, combining commercial accountability, operational oversight, and people leadership across a busy and important region for the business.

This is a field-based role suited to someone equally comfortable driving sales performance and managing day-to-day depot operations.

You will lead a team of six, comprising three Account Executives, one Key Account Manager, and two Operations Supervisors, taking full ownership of the commercial and operational performance of your business unit.

With almost 70 years of history and over 200 red tankers...

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Job Details

  • Location Blackmore End, Essex
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category sales-and-related
  • Posted Date June 27, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 06, 2026