Business Development Manager / Sector Lead

At Johnsons 1871, we’re excited to offer a new opportunity for a
passionate and driven Business Development Manager to join our team.

We’re looking for someone who thrives on building relationships,
creating opportunities, and closing deals. If you’re commercially minded,
proactive, and motivated by results, you could be the perfect fit to help us
grow our wide range of services and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and grow sales
  within defined sectors 
  
• Identify and develop new
  business opportunities through proactive prospecting, networking and
  relationship building
  
• Support and motivate
  sales development to drive revenue growth
  
• Follow up on leads
  generated by marketing and lead generation teams
  
• Develop and manage
  effective contact networks and strategic partnerships
  
• Work closely with
  internal teams, including Estimating and Account Management, to ensure
  timely responses and client satisfaction
  
• Accurately forecast and
  report on sales performance
  
• Maintain CRM records,
  update dashboards and contribute to performance reports
  
• Maintain a positive,
  professional approach when dealing with clients and colleagues
  
• Offer product and
  service expertise, confidently addressing customer queries
  

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Strong B2B sales
  background, ideally with experience across multiple product or service
  lines
  
• Proven experience in
  account management and growing client relationships
  
• Excellent communication
  skills – written, verbal, and face-to-face
  
• High level of
  professionalism with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels
  
• Comfortable using CRM
  systems and MS Office applications
  
• Organised,
  detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities
  
• A collaborative,
  team-first mindset with a proactive attitude
  
• Comfortable
  communicating to all levels and be flexible enough for client entertainment
  outside of working hours
  
• This is a role that requires nationwide travel, therefore a driving licence is required
  

Essential Experience

• Minimum 3 years in sales
  roles
  
• Minimum 1 year in
  account management
  
• Experience working with
  multiple stakeholders
  
• Demonstrated success in
  cross-selling or multi-product environments
  
• Driving License Required
  

Benefits

What We Offer

• Company pension scheme
  
• NHS healthcare cash plan
  
• Death in service benefit
  
• Employee discount scheme
  
• Supportive,
  high-performance team environment with career development opportunities