Business Development Manager - Air Road & Sea

Tall Grass Recruitment; Widnes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Widnes is seeking a Business Development Manager specializing in air, road, and sea. You will drive new business opportunities, manage accounts, and work towards profitable growth while enjoying a flexible working environment. The ideal candidate must have essential sales experience and excellent communication skills. A robust package including salary, commission, and benefits is offered.

Benefits

Flexible/hybrid working

25 days holiday + BH

Pension

10% Commission

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Proven air, road, and sea sales experience is essential.
• Ability to provide reports using various software.
• Strong commercial acumen and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business accounts and explore opportunities.
• Drive profitability and manage day-to-day self-performance.
• Ensure timely quoting and maintain performance records.

Skills

Key industry knowledge

Good communications skills

Ability to analyse and adapt

Air / Road & Sea sales experience

Tools

Excel

Word documents

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Business Development Manager - Air / Road & Sea
Location: Northwest
Salary: DOE + 10% Commission, car / allowance + bonus scheme

General Summary

• Focus on development of new business accounts for the business.
• Candidate can also freely develop profitable accounts across all modes.
• Agreed and arrange own pricing in line with policy.
• Drive forward business opportunities, and increase company volume and profile
• Responsible for the day-to-day self-performance, including delivering new accounts, co-ordinating with carriers, providing the team with SOPs for shipments gained
• Ensure accurate and timely quoting, and follow up
• Keep own performance record and show development progress when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve profitable growth
• Show flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to embrace the challenge
• Build relationships across the board, colleagues, suppliers, customers
• Take decisive action when necessary
• Focus on targets to achieve growth.
• Understand market conditions, and ensure this is communicated
• Build client confidence
• Explores customer opportunities to provide new value to the client
• Ability to understand cost and profit drivers
• Apply financial, and risk management to evaluate commercial opportunities
• Ensure balance of risk / reward

Key Skills

• Key industry knowledge
• Ability to provide reports using various software
• Good communications skills
• Ability to analyse, change, adapt and willingness to learn new things
• Ability to work in a team environment and work to given timeframes/deadlines
• Motivate self to obtain best results
• Knowledge of excel & word documents
• Commercial acumen and swift decision maker
• Air / Road & Sea sales experience essential!!!

Package

• Salary DOE + 10% Commission, car / allowance + bonus scheme
• Flexible / hybrid working
• 25 days holiday + BH
• Pension
• Much More