Business Development Manager

REXEL; Croydon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

Performance-related bonus scheme

33 days annual leave

Buy and sell holiday options

Enhanced parental leave

Private Medical Insurance

Staff discounts and exclusive holiday offers

Job summary

A leading electrical distributor in the UK seeks a Business Development Manager to drive profitable growth and build customer partnerships. The role involves using data-driven insights to create strategic roadmaps, maintaining a robust pipeline, and ensuring exceptional customer experiences. Ideal candidates will have commercial expertise, influencing skills, and proven results in business development. This position offers competitive compensation and extensive benefits including a contributory pension scheme and performance-related bonuses.

Qualifications

• 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 ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Proven sales experience with ability to prospect, qualify and close new business.

Responsibilities

• Use data-driven insights to create a strategic roadmap for growth.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of customer partnerships.
• Create tailored solutions leveraging preferred suppliers.
• Govern regional pricing, margins, and contract profitability.
• Adapt strategies based on market changes for long-term growth.
• Ensure exceptional customer experience through collaboration.
• Upskill internal teams to achieve growth targets.

Skills

Collaboration

Accountability

Customer Partnership

Results Driven

Influencing Skills

Networking

Job description

• Experience Level (for career site): Experienced Professional
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Job Family: Sales
• Compensation: GBP 45,000 - GBP 55,000 - yearly

Company Description

Rexel UK have opportunities for Business Development Managers to support our sales network and collaborate with our branch teams and supporting functions teams.

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?

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

The Benefits of a Career with Rexel:

• Contributory pension scheme and life assurance
• Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme
• 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: Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education

Job Description

As a Business Development Managerat 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 marketshare (within a defined geography/segment/specialist product group) identifying potentialand 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 throughcollaboration 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 Managerinclude:

• COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with othersto meet shared objectives
• HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY – holds self and others accountable to meetcommitments
• CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP – Creating new customer partnerships with multidimensional 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 ofothers
• BUILDS NETWORKS - Effectively building formal and informal relationshipnetworks inside and outside the organisation

What we are looking for:

• 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 crossfunctionally.
• 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.