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Mark Boland

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Area Sales Manager at JVL Homeware Solutions
📍 Greater Leeds Area, United Kingdom

Mark is a target-driven Area Sales Manager with 30 years of experience across the homeware, natural health, and FMCG sectors. He focuses on building long-term partnerships with retailers and wholesalers, leveraging his expertise in territory management, negotiation, and new business development. He studied Business at Keighley College.

Outside of his sales career, Mark took a significant career break to act as a full-time caregiver for his father, who was living with Alzheimers and vascular dementia. This experience highlights his dependable and committed nature.

He proudly states that at 57, his 30 years of sales experience makes him "dangerous" and "allergic to missing target. "

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Area Sales Manager
Location
Greater Leeds Area, United Kingdom
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Priorities

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Effective Salesmanship
Believes the best salespeople are the best listeners who seek to understand a customer's problem before pitching a solution, focusing on outcomes over features.
Salary Transparency
He has shared posts questioning the term "competitive salary" in job ads, advocating for more clarity and openness in compensation discussions during hiring processes.
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Career

Work history

8-2024 - 1-2026
Area Sales Manager
JVL Homeware Solutions
1-2023 - 8-2024
Caregiving
Career Break
1-2021 - 1-2023
Territory Manager
Viridian Nutrition
9-2019 - 12-2020
Sales Executive
NextGEN360
11-2016 - 8-2019
Field Sales - Concessions
Totally Wicked
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Education
1992 - 1994
Btec National
Keighley College
1984 - 1985
Business studies Btec
Keighley College
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