Business Development Executive

Foray Motor Group; Launceston; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Foray Rewards (discount shopping)

24/7 wellbeing support

24/7 Counselling support

Cycle to Work Scheme

30 days holiday (34 with service)

Long Service Awards

Employee discounts on vehicle and for

Company Car

Job summary

Foray Motor Group is seeking a Field-based Business Development Executive to join the Parts Team, primarily serving the South West region. The role includes a company car, mobile phone, and full field support to build relationships with customers and drive growth.

You will develop product knowledge, visit customers, and identify opportunities to expand our Parts Plus business while delivering excellent service and support to our partner network.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service abilities.
• Ability to drive customer sales.
• Ability to capture new business opportunities.
• Promote the Foray Motor Group and Parts Plus brands.
• Ability to close sales opportunities effectively.
• Collaborate with the sales team and management to grow the business.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with customers, including regular face-to-face visits.
• Ensuring you maintain up-to-date product knowledge to provide the best possible advice and guidance for our customers.
• Keeping an eye on the competition and seeking out opportunities for development and growth.
• Maintaining accurate customer records, to ensure we build genuine relationships reflective of their needs.
• Providing outstanding customer service, going above and beyond to ensure our customers stay with us for the future.
• Thinking long term, to identify how we can grow and develop our network.

Skills

Customer service

Sales driving

New business

Brand promotion

Closing deals

Team collaboration

Job description

Company Description

Foray Motor Group is the South West’s award-winning Ford-only dealer group, with dealerships and service centres in Salisbury, Poole, Yeovil, Taunton, Andover, Shaftesbury, Bridgwater, Dorchester and Southampton. The 9 location group, with an annual turnover in excess of £150m, employs circa 400 people, in a wide variety of job roles, and has excellent opportunities for highly motivated, dedicated and talented people. Whether you’re a salesperson, a vehicle technician or in customer service, we would like to hear from you. And, if you haven’t yet built-up experience in these areas, we have apprenticeships and training programmes to help you get settled in. At Foray we place great emphasis on developing our staff to equip you with the right skills and tools to succeed at everything you do.

Position

Salary: £34,904.96 basic salary per annum+ bonus

Location: Launceston Parts Plus, covering the South West area.

Full-Time | Permanent

Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday - Friday

Benefits:

• Foray Rewards (including discount shopping from a range of retailers)
• 24/7 wellbeing support
• 24/7 1-2-1 Counselling support
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• 30 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), rising to 34 days with length of service
• Long Service Awards
• Workplace Discount for your own vehicle and immediate family
• Company Car

We are looking for a Business Development Executive to join our Parts Team, working primarily in and around the South West area. This role will be field based and will come with a Company Car, mobile phone and all the necessary equipment to enable you to carry out your role on the road.

Are you someone who is familiar with the automotive parts industry, passionate about building relationships with new and existing customers and enjoys the challenges of business development and creating a great customer service? Yes? Then this could be the next role for you.

This field-based role provides the autonomy for you to set up your working week as you see fit, allowing you to decide how best to achieve results and business growth across the patch. Support comes from the wider Parts Plus UK team and our Parts Plus Centre Manager, and full training on our systems will be given, so don’t worry if some of this is new to you, we would still like to hear from you even if your sales experience isn’t in the Ford Parts Plus industry.

If you have a proven track record of achieving sales targets and business growth and are looking for your next career opportunity, Foray Motor Group will provide the support, training and development opportunities throughout your journey with us.

Key areas of the job include:

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with customers, including regular face to face visits
• Ensuring you maintain up to date product knowledge to provide the best possible advice and guidance for our customers
• Keeping an eye on the competition and seeking out opportunities for develop and growth
• Maintaining accurate customer records, to ensure we build genuine relationships with customers that are reflective of their needs
• Providing outstanding customer service, going above and beyond to ensure our customers stay with us for the future
• Thinking long term, to identify how we can grow and develop our network

Requirements:

• Great customer service
• Drive customers sales
• Capture new business
• Promote Foray Motor Group and Parts Plus
• Effectively close on sales opportunities
• Liaise with sales team and management to grow the business

Other information

Foray Motor Group is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, gender reassignment and gender identity, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Eligibility

• We are not able to offer sponsorship for people living outside the UK

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