Business Development Executive

Foray Motor Group; Poole; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Foray Motor Group is seeking a passionate Business Development Executive to join their field-based Parts Team in the South West. This role requires strong relationship-building skills, a commitment to outstanding customer service, and the drive to achieve sales targets. The successful candidate will enjoy autonomy in managing their schedule while benefiting from a supportive team and training opportunities, ensuring success in a rewarding career within the automotive industry.

Benefits

Company car

Mobile phone

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record of achieving sales targets.
• Familiar with the automotive parts industry.
• Strong relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Providing outstanding customer service.
• Driving customer sales and capturing new business.

Skills

Customer service

Sales drive

Business development

Job description

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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, Bridgewater, 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:

We are looking for a Business Development Executive to join our Parts Team, working primarily in the South West. 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.

Please consider the following when making your application:

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive sufficient volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early
• We are not able to offer sponsorship for people living outside the UK
• If you need any support throughout the application or interview process, please make the a member of our team or the Hiring Manager aware.
  
  

We advertise our vacancies to attract candidates. If we require agency assistance we will contact agencies directly. Any speculative CVs we receive will not be accepted as an introduction.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development

• Industries

  Automotive

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