Business Development Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus / Commission

Company Car or Car Allowance

Pension (12% employer contribution)

25 Days Holiday + Stats

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection LTD is seeking a proactive, autonomous Business Development Manager to drive growth across your territory. This field-based role reports to the Senior BDM and focuses on new business, client acquisition, and developing key accounts.

Based near excellent transport links with visits to Lincolnshire head office, you will map target customers, manage CRM, and contribute to sales strategy while chasing the next sale.

Qualifications

• Technical or business qualification or equivalent experience in a relatable field.
• Prolonged diary management and prospecting defined markets with little supervision.
• Driven to pursue the next sale and move to the next opportunity.
• Experience generating your own business and understanding sales metrics.
• Ability to manage customer accounts and maximise each relationship.

Responsibilities

• Market map target customers and industries and maintain CRM data for metrics.
• Contribute to the sales strategy for the territory.
• Oversee and manage all new business opportunities.
• Develop and grow existing and new customer accounts.
• Stay updated on industry trends, competitors, sales performance and market shifts.

Skills

Diary management

Prospecting

CRM usage

New business development

Relationship management

Education

Technical or business qualification

Tools

CRM software

MS Office

Job description

We are a well-established business with a strong history stretching back over 150 years in many industrial sectors. Our business is industrial fasteners and fixing systems. We need a proactive, autonomous Business Development Manager, ideally based near to excellent transport links to help us continue our growth plans!

BASIC SALARY

£55,000 - £65,000

BENEFITS

• Bonus / Commission
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• Pension (12% employer contribution)
• 25 Days Holiday + Stats

LOCATION

Field based, with occasional visits to our head office in Lincolnshire

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS

Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leicester, Stone-on-Trent, Leeds, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Luton, Watford, Reading, Chelmsford,

JOB DESCRIPTION

As our Business Development Manager your key responsibility is to grow our business in your territory. Reporting directly to the Senior Business Development Manager, you will form a crucial part of our sales team. This is a new business focussed role so you will thrive on chasing the sale and then moving to the next opportunity. Your drive will be moving onto the next prospect.

• Ensure we effectively market map our target customers and industries and maintain CRM system information, so we know our metrics in terms of success
• Contribute towards the sales strategy for the business in your territory
• Oversee and manage all new business opportunities
• Develop and grow existing and new customer accounts
• Stay updated on industry trends and competitor activities, sales performance & market shifts etc.

REQUIREMENTS

This is an opportunity to join an established business in an exciting period of growth and diversification, we are well known in our more prominent sectors but we are keen to grown in other industries so we are open to strong sales professionals from various industries including, Consumer Electronics, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Garden, Renewable Energy, Automotive, Aerospace, Home appliances etc. Whatever your background, you are ready to join an international business with big growth ambitions.

• A technical or business qualification or equivalent experience in a relatable field
• Prolonged experience of managing your own diary and prospecting defined markets with little or no supervision
• The drive and desire to always be looking for the next sale, this role really will suit someone who is always looking for the next deal
• Experience of generating your own business, but also understanding your metrics around success
• A natural ability to manage customer accounts and maximize each relationship

THE COMPANY

We are a well-established global fastener business, currently embarking on a period of rapid growth we are one of the leading players in our field working with some of the most recognisable brands in the world. It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets and worked with the following products and/or services: Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Territory Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Aerospace, Industrial Consumables, Industrial Sales, Automotive, Garden, Renewable Energy, White Goods, Consumer electronics, Medical Equipment, Fasteners, Adhesives, Manufacturing.