Lamp Company: Area Sales Manager Vacancy

Posted on April 2, 2012 by lampcompany

A new position looking after a sales area within the UK. The role is predominantly office based with occasional customer visits. Whilst an account managing role you will be expected to work to set monthly targets and be required to increase your existing customer base whilst also obtaining new business within your area. A demanding and fast paced sector where exceeding expectations and customer service is paramount.

Job Specification for Area Sales Manager

Key Tasks:

  • Must have a proven Sales background (lighting /lamps an advantage) but in a B2B environment
  • Manage assigned accounts / dormant customers
  • Meet monthly sales targets
  • Proactively increasing the customer database
  • Answering the telephones

Core Performances:

  • Must be confident at telephone answering
  • Speak in a clear and concise manner – Good communicator
  • Accurate data inputting
  • Computer literate
  • Hard working, willing to learn / adapt and assist
  • Good team skills
  • Customer service /Orientation
                    Competencies 
Communication skills
Information gathering
Problem Solving
Influencing skills
Need for excellence
Team skills
Decisiveness
Customer service / orientation
Problem solving

Package:

  • £16,000 start (negotiable) – 20 days holiday plus bank holidays increasing after 2 years, 6 months probation period, in-house training, 5% non-contributory pension, private health care and Company bonus scheme after 6 months. Sales area bonuses (uncapped) after 6 months. Plus other benefits.
  • Working hours 8.30-5pm Monday to Friday with 30 mins lunch break and 2 breaks during the day (am/pm).

The Lamp Company has been established for over 21 years and is a leading independent wholesale /retail distributor nationwide with a reputation built of ‘unrivalled service, knowledge and choice’.

Please visit our websites to get an overall view of the services and industry: www.lampco.co.uk & www.easy-lightbulbs.com

In the first instance please email your CV to john.orlandi@lampco.co.uk with a covering letter detailing your experience, background and why you would like to join the Lamp Company.

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Lighting energy use not so high – Letter to Lighting Magazine March 2012

Posted on March 27, 2012 by lampcompany

In his letter in the February issue Dr Geoff Archenhold said 14 per cent of all power consumption in Europe is down to lighting.

I’m sorry, but that figure is absolute pie in the sky. If you ask any large organisation how much of its energy bill is down to lighting, I guarantee it will be in single figures. Our lighting bill represents about 5 per cent of the total in our 10,000 square foot facility.

Maybe it would be more in a jewellers, but nowhere else. This looks like EU madness: trying to fix something that’s not broken.

Ian Fursland

Managing Director

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A blog from the MD about alleged “Retrofit” LED lamps & products

Posted on March 23, 2012 by lampcompany

Dear Consumer,

As the MD of The Lamp Company Ltd I follow the industry press in all formats. Tweeting, Facebook, Blogs online and the good old fashioned Magazine so when I saw an advert stating “retrofit 15 watt LED lamp for 26 watt PLC Fluorescent” I thought I’d investigate as that is a pretty impressive claim.

I tweeted back “What is the lumen output please?” to which the response came as “1000 lumens and the price is reducing shortly!”

Now being an old timer, 29 years in the industry, and needing to get out more, I knew a 26w PLC had a lumen output of 1800 lumens. 

So being conventional I tweeted back a response and eventually received this answer below.

Clearly I do know what I am talking about and GE, Osram, Philips and Sylvania only publish performance after rigorous testing of their products. Therefore I’m afraid the inane comment is totally unjustified. I do know what I’m talking about I’ve built a business and trained all my staff in being honest and only offering products that are suitable for an application. Obviously the alleged LED retrofit will not appear in our product profile for the foreseeable future!

Herein we have another problem in our industry. There are lots of false claims out there about “retrofit LEDs”. I’ve seen another recently claiming a 28w CAT2 LED panel is a retrofit to a fluorescent CAT2. Now none of the big Manufacturers can get their 50w LED Modules to within a lumen output of 75% of a fluorescent CAT2. LEDs are the future but we are going to waste billions of pounds installing product that is not retrofit in the next few years. A bit like my Local Authority that have just installed solar panels on some of their homes roofs that are facing a few degrees North of due West! Payback??? Never I’m afraid for those panels.

I would recommend that all purchasers of LED “retrofit” products thoroughly research the items prior to making a purchase. As my Dad always says “If it’s too good to be true, it normally is!

Alternatively for impartial, respected and hard earned advice please feel free to contact our sales department who for over 21 years have been providing unrivalled service, knowledge and choice to customers.

Ian Fursland

Managing Director

21 years of unrivalled service, knowledge and choice……                                    

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Jetliner inside a light bulb!

Posted on March 1, 2012 by lampcompany

Your eyes are not deceiving you. Polish model maker Rafal Z has incredibly managed to build a model of a KLM Airbus A330 inside an incandescent light bulb. After taking inspiration from an online Papercraft model template he was able to create the model which measures just over 5cm in length.

Unfortunately we do not sell light bulbs with model jetliners inside, we do however have vast stocks of incandescent light bulbs remaining should you fancy having a go yourself!

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Road lighting in England ‘could be dimmed’

Posted on February 29, 2012 by lampcompany

The Highways Agency is considering ‘dimming’ road lights in England during quiet periods in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions and cut costs. The proposal would see thousands of miles of A-road lighting reduced at times when traffic is ‘very low’.

A spokesman for the Highways Agency said: ‘Any change in light level will be determined in consultation with industry experts and will meet internationally agreed standards to ensure there will be no impact on safety for road users’.

Norman Baker, the Local Transport Minister believes ‘it is right that lighting authorities consider, in the interests of cost saving and the environment, whether lighting can be sensibly dimmed or turned off, consistent with proper safety assessments’.   

Research into when and where lights could be dimmed is due to commence in 2012/13.

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