Company Profile

Fantastic opportunity to work for a hugely profitable, zero carbon, environmentally focused packaging organisation turning over £2 Billion annually. They are now looking for a Business Development Manager to join the team. Paying £50,000 - £65,000 depending on experience.

Title: Business Development Manager

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000, bonus, car benefits

Role And Responsibilities

To maximise the companies market position and sales growth by identifying new business opportunities, negotiating and closing business deals with new customers.

Apply Group Policies: Equal Opportunities, Environment, Quality and Health & Safety.

Sales

• Prospect for potential new clients to ensure a robust pipeline of new business opportunities, by establishing, developing and maintaining business relationships with these potential customers that will generate new and profitable business growth for the company.
• To manage with his/her Plant/Regional Sales and Commercial Director the final commercial and contract negotiations for his/her major deal opportunities.
• Maintain working, buying and market platforms and report monthly sales dashboard, new business success, sales in new products or services.
• To help building our Value-Added Proposal for each of our potential new customers.
• Participate as an executive member in the plant/regional sales meetings.
• To define the annual sales budget for his/her assigned market.
• Follow and sustain the Groups Management System relating to sales and commercial activity.
  
  

Sales System

• To implement in his/her daily business activity the sales approach described in the companys manual.
• Comply with the communication and reporting procedures defined within the commercial & marketing organization for securing a perfect alignment with all stakeholders. Use the business information systems of the company, to ensure maximum reliability of reporting for sound decision making.
  
  

Innovation

• To positively impacts the performance of his/her activity by developing fit-for-purpose customer driven projects in coordination with the innovation community.
• Maintain and coordinates the relation with the National Development Center (NDC) for his/her business segment and actively reports innovation requirements for his/her business scope.
  
  

Sales Team Capabilities

• Lead the definition and implementation of the induction training needed for all new members of the sales team that are linked to his/her assigned market responsibility.
• To actively participate in his/her own training program definition and implementation, supporting new training initiatives and reporting any detected skills that would need to be reinforced for his/her own benefit.
  
  

Marketing

• Thoroughly understand the competitive landscape including performance, features, pricing, customer satisfaction, and future trends related to his/her assigned potential customers. To share this knowledge back to the business for helping in the definition of the best fit-for-purpose Value Added Proposal for these potential customers.
  
  

Qualifications And Knowledge

Diploma in Business

Marketing or technical area

Professional experience

• 3-5 years of sales management in the industrial consumer goods sectors.
• 2 years managing sales teams or National Accounts.
• Specific training: detailed in specialised functions
• Master in Sales / Marketing.
• Micro-economics (balance sheet, P&L account, etc)
• Computing
• Sales and Negotiation Techniques.
• Team Management, Leadership. QSE knowledge/training
• Basic QSE training in his/her plant
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Health and Safety
• Client Orientation
• Teamwork
• Commitment to the company
• Self-control
• Analytical Thinking
• Innovation
• Initiative
• Impact and Influence
• People management and development
• Strategic Vision
  
  

Additional Skill

Creative person, orderly, capacity for leadership and benchmarking sales. Able to organise projects and have a medium-term future overview. Able to manage team in a matrix structure.