Business Development Manager - UK

Business Development Manager, Rugby

Salary £55,000 - £60,000 per annum (10% bonus + Car Allowance)

Excellent company benefits

New business development to identify and onboard new customers for revenue and growth to our client’s business.

Reporting to the Director of New Business Development, the role will be to provide a high standard of account management across a range of accounts. The role will be split between office-based working within a small team, market visits across UK, with an element of European travel.

The candidate will need to be resourceful, able to work in a technical and commercial environment and able to manage from a to z the first orders and interact externally with customers and internally with various departments

Candidate must be customer centric, a team player, flexible, have the ability to organise and prioritise workload, be proactive and project manage high value orders. The role requires good understanding of processes with defined deadlines, high levels of energy and basic technical understanding of electrical and refrigeration principles.

Understanding of restaurants operations is a desirable requisite.

The candidate will be expected to achieve both our internal KPI’s and personal sales targets. They will also need to liaise with internal stakeholders i.e. purchasing, engineering etc to ensure that the order process runs smoothly and without delay for our customers. The candidate will be required to work and present costs and pricing in line with company’s expectations.

The candidate will be required to work in autonomy and with great attention to detail. The candidate must be willing to challenge existing processes; strength of character will be a prerequisite.

Duties:

Supporting with the onboarding of new customers (Procurement/Engineering liaison/Finance)

Account Administration/Account Management - working to meet business KPI’s

Site & Customer visits to progress with on-boarding of new customers, new restaurants and remodels orders

Liaising with other internal departments to facilitate a smooth process from quote through to post shipment/after sales on both projects and resupply

Liaising with suppliers

Review incoming information on equipment, rework for relevant departments

Person Specification:

Educated to degree or "A" Level

Business Development/Account Management experience essential, used to UK travel

Background within Technical Sales

Project Management experience

Preference given to those with knowledge of electrical & refrigeration principles/background within another KES, OEM desirable

Confident/forward thinking professional