Business Development Manager

Rexel UK Ltd; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car Scheme

Bonus scheme

33 days annual leave

Holiday buy/sell

Enhanced parental leave

Learning opportunities

Private medical insurance

Pension & life assurance

Staff discounts

Job summary

Rexel UK Ltd is seeking a Business Development Manager to drive profitable growth and build long-term partnerships within the Basingstoke cluster. You will engage with branch teams, shape strategies and create new business opportunities across key segments.

Ideal candidates bring wholesale or electrical wholesale experience, proven sales results, skilled negotiation, and a data-driven mindset to optimize margins and growth. A comprehensive benefits package is provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in wholesale or industry sectors relevant to electrical wholesale.
• Proven sales performance with ability to close opportunities.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills with internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to make data-driven decisions to shape strategic plans.
• Experience managing partnerships and multi-channel customer engagements.
• Understanding of margin, P&L and cost-to-serve.
• Familiarity with standard sales processes and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic roadmaps to increase market share in defined geography or segments.
• Build and maintain a robust pipeline of customer partnerships.
• Create long-term value through customer partnerships and strategic relationships.
• Develop value propositions leveraging suppliers to drive profitability.
• Oversee pricing strategies, margins, and contract profitability.
• Adapt strategies based on market and segment changes for growth.
• Promote multi-channel approaches to enhance customer propositions.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure outstanding customer experience and OTIF.
• Upskill teams and define account ownership with regular reviews.

Skills

Wholesale experience

Sales experience

Negotiation skills

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Proven sales performance

Sales process knowledge

Industry knowledge

Job description

Company Description

Are you an experienced sales and business development professional looking to drive profitable growth, gain market share and create future pipeline opportunities within specific segment or product specialism?

As a global leader in electrical wholesale, Rexel distributes advanced electrical and energy-efficient products worldwide. We deliver smart, sustainable solutions engineered to enhance comfort, safety, and security across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.

We are looking for professional, ambitious and motivated sales professionals who can build existing customer partnerships and create and forge new business opportunities.

This role is working within our Basingstoke Cluster to drive new business into our branches and cement long term value added partnerships across dedicated sectors.

The Benefits Of a Career With Rexel

• Company Car Scheme
• Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme paid quarterly and annually
• Time Off: 33 days annual leave(including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!)
  • You can also buy and sell holiday each year
  • Enhanced parental leave
• Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one.
• Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance/Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more!
• Perks: Contributory pension scheme and life assurance, Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education

Job Description

As a Business Development Manager at Rexel, you will drive profitable growth, gaining market share and creating future pipeline opportunities, within specific segment or product specialism.

This role is pivotal in driving sales, collaborating with branch based teams and creating an exceptional customer relationship and service.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Roadmap: Use data driven insights and tools to create a plan to increase market share (within a defined geography/segment/specialist product group) identifying potential and long-term growth opportunities through new offerings, markets, or revenue streams.
• Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a pipeline of customer partnerships
• Customer Partnerships: Create partnerships and strategic relationships with customer (brand/business) for long term future opportunity.
• Value Proposition Development: Create tailored solutions leveraging preferred suppliers to drive innovation and profitability.
• Pricing and Profitability: Govern regional pricing, margins, and contract profitability.
• Market Agility: Adapt strategies based on market and segment changes for long term future growth.
• Multichannel Growth: Promote multichannel adoption to innovate customer propositions.
• Customer Experience: Ensure exceptional customer experience and OTIF through collaboration with internal end to end experts to drive new business and successful implementation.
• Team Development: Upskill internal teams, ensuring clear account ownership and regular reviews to achieve growth targets.

Qualifications

At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles, the behaviours that will set you up for success as a Business Development Manager include:

• COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY – holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
• CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP – Creating new customer partnerships with multi dimensional relationships for strategic insight for future opportunity
• DRIVES RESULTS - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• INFLUENCES- using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others
• BUILDS NETWORKS - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organisation

What We Are Looking For

• Industry or Wholesale Experience
• Commercial expertise (margin, P&L, cost to serve)
• Influencing and Negotiation skills
• Experience within a business development role with proven results.
• Able to make data driven decisions to drive strategic plans and growth opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to collaborate cross functionally.
• Proven sales experience with the ability to prospect, qualify and close new business.
• Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques.

Additional Information

At Rexel UK, we're all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results. By coming together as one team, we're building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities. Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.