Business development manager
Location
Holsworthy, Devon | United Kingdom
Job description
Business Development Manager Salary : £55K-£60K + Benefits Benefits:
- Monday – Friday working week 8;30am- 5pm. Friday finish at 3pm.
- Competitive salary plus commission
- Laptop and Mobile
- Company pension contribution 5%
- 25 days holiday + bank holiday with an additional day holiday for each 2 years of completed service. You can get up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
- Access to a smart health app from AIG with 24/7 online GP’s, mental health support and well being services.
- Free eyes test every 2 years.
- Access to a free and confidential independent financial adviser
- Winston’s wish bereavement support for families and children
- Bereavement counselling: access to 24/7 bereavement helpline and face to face counselling
- Income protection cover after 1-year service.
- Death in service cover: 2x salary from day 1 of joining rising to 4x salary after 5 years’ service.
- Extra 2 weeks paid holiday as a thank you when you complete 10 years’ service (as a one-off reward)
Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum 1-year sales / business development
- Technical engineering experience
- Proven ability to generate and convert your own sales leads.
- Sales experience of technical products
- Experience with CRM systems
- Experience of CAD / Drawing systems (advantageous)
- Ability to work alone as well as in a team.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask.
- Technical skills to understand and propose products or solutions by focusing on the clients’ requirements.
- Confidence and ability to persuade.
- Solid IT skills (Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint)
- The ability to motivate themselves and others.
- Determined to be successful.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Business acumen, commercial awareness, and interest in developing business.
- Negotiation skills and the ability to make good business decisions.
What will you be doing?
- Creating strategies to successfully reach new business opportunities.
- Build relationships with new clients, gauging their needs and developing proposals to address these needs.
- Maintain and develop relationships with current clients.
- Pitch sales and products to new and existing clients.
- Attend conferences and events to build relationships with industry partners and stay up to date with new trends.
- Create sale forecast and actively work towards reaching them.
- Possess a strong understanding of the company’s products, the competition in the industry and positioning.
- Collaborate with the technical department and sales team to ensure that the requirements are met.
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Salary
£55k - £60k per annum
