Business Development Manager

Wallace Hind Selection; Enfield; Remote; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and Commission

Company Car or Car Allowance

Pension and Healthcare

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection is seeking an ambitious Business Development Manager to set up a UK Sales and Service office from scratch for a European packaging machinery manufacturer serving the food and beverage sector. This home-based role offers a six-figure package and future prospects to recruit and manage a UK team.

You will identify and win new business from a zero base, while building turnover and a service operation over 3 to 5 years, covering the UK and Ireland markets.

Qualifications

• Must be an experienced field sales professional with a proven track record of new business development.
• Experience selling packaging machinery to the food and beverage markets.
• Ideally with a technical or engineering background.
• Ambitious to build and manage UK Sales and Service office within 3–5 years.

Responsibilities

• Identify and generate new business for a European packaging machinery manufacturer in the UK.
• Build a UK Sales and Service office from scratch and recruit the initial team.
• Achieve very realistic first and second year targets and manage projects.

Skills

New business development

Field sales

Technical selling

Education

Engineering/technical background

Job description

As an ambitious and driven Business Development Manager are you looking for an opportunity to set up a UK Sales and Service office from scratch for a European manufacturer of packaging machinery and lines to the food and beverage sector? If so, this is the job for you with a six figure package and built in prospects to manage a team who you will recruit yourself.

BASIC SALARY

up to £75,000

BENEFITS

• Bonus and Commission to earn circa £14,000 in year one and circa £25,000 in year two
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• Negotiable Pension and Healthcare

LOCATION

Home based role - you can live anywhere in the UK but a central location is preferred to enable you to cover the UK & Ireland

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS

Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Cambridge, Nottingham

JOB DESCRIPTION

Business Development Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager - packaging machinery, lines - food and beverage

A true Business Development Manager role from a zero base in the UK, your job will be to identify and generate new business selling a large range of packaging machinery as a high value technical solution including VFFS Baggers, Bottling Lines, Case Packers and Palletisers to the food and beverage markets.

There are very realistic first and second year targets and full applications, project management and administration support will be provided.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• You MUST be an experienced field sales person with a proven track record of new business development and be willing and able to generate new business from a zero base.
• You MUST have sold or be selling packaging machinery to the food and/or beverage markets.
• Ideally you will have a technical or engineering background.
• You will be ambitious and wanting to build and manage a UK Sales and Service office in 3 to 5 years.

THE COMPANY

A very well, established European manufacturer and supplier of a range of packaging machinery sold to the food and beverage markets.

The company want to recruit someone who can first build turnover and then a Sales and Service team over the next 5 years.