Business Development Manager

£45,000 - £55,000 + Company car

Field Based with occasional travel to the office in Leicester

• Do you consider yourself to be persistent and tenacious, focused on closing the sale?
• Do you possess experience in selling through distribution channels?
• Are you looking to work for an organisation that is continuing to grow and dominate in its market?

The Company:

ER Recruitment are excited to be working with our client, who are an innovative, distinctive organisation who distribute their products globally and have sites based in Leicester.

They are looking for a tenacious individual to identify new business development opportunities within existing target customers and grow sales and contribution value of target products with those customers.

Role & Responsibilities of the Business Development Manager:

• Grow sales and margin percent by achieving improved pipeline value and creating new opportunities with existing customers to maximise profitability.
• Develop new customer relationships which deliver target growth, in specific target markets.
• Conduct contract reviews on all tenders and new business.
• Identify any gaps in the product range and make recommendations for new products based on genuine intel and customer requirements.
• Report on how the business can grow sales and identify any barriers, using competitor and other information to support any recommendations.
• Ensure customer expectations are understood and communicate any specific requests internally so that excellent customer satisfaction is consistently achieved.
• Prepare and regularly report on KPI’s including sales forecasts and performance to plan, market conditions and pricing.

About You as the Business Development Manager:

• Driving licence is essential due to being a predominantly field-based role.
• Ability to travel to Leicester ideally 1 day per week.
• Experience selling products direct from manufacturer.
• Experience in selling through distribution channels.
• Strong communicator able to define customer needs and convey company objectives.
• Business development and negotiation skills.
• Brilliant relationship management skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Ability to identify business at risk, implement actions plans to minimise risk and assure customer satisfaction.
• Good report writing skills.
• Collaborative team player.

Additional Benefits:

• Company Car
• Annual leave of 31 days
• Company sick pay (8 weeks following successful probation & subject to terms)
• Pension Contribution of 5%
• Health cash plan via BHSF (Level 2 cover)
• Company Pension (following probation) attracts death in service benefit of lump sum of 5 times salary

This role could be suitable for: Account Manager, New Business, Sales Manager, Commercial Manager, Sales Representative, Business Development.

Please note by applying for this role you give consent for ER Recruitment to retain your CV for up to 24 months for the purposes of assisting you to find your next role unless you notify us otherwise.

While we aim to get back to all applicants, if you do not receive a response within 7 working days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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We look forward to hearing from you.