Business Development Manager - PPE

Rsgroup; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private healthcare

Generous annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

RS Safety Solutions is seeking a Business Development Manager – PPE to cover the Midlands region from a field-based/virtual setup. You will grow PPE offerings by expanding the customer base and working with UK&I account teams and specialists.

You will leverage PPE knowledge to win new opportunities, manage a PPE-focused pipeline, and collaborate with suppliers to bring innovative solutions to customers. Travel within the territory is required.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the PPE market across sectors.
• Experience building existing business through PPE solutions and spotting new opportunities.
• Experience working in a sales environment and collaborating with teams.

Responsibilities

• Combine PPE expertise with account development and sales.
• Manage a pipeline of PPE opportunities within the allocated territory.
• Act as PPE subject matter expert for the region and engage with KAMs/corporate AMs.
• Identify development and new business opportunities.
• Support regional territory mapping with account managers and specialists.
• Research target sectors and product ranges to add opportunities to the pipeline.
• Collaborate with PPE suppliers to bring innovations to customers.

Skills

PPE expertise

Account development

Sales

Collaborative approach

Willing to travel

Job description

Business Development Manager - PPE

Location: Field Based, GB

Brand: RS Safety Solutions

Work Location: Virtual

Business Development Manager – PPE

Location – Covering Midlands

We have an exciting opportunity here at RS for ambitious individuals to join our award-winning innovative company as a Business Development Manager. This is a new role that will support the growth of our PPE offering to our wider client base, working closely with not only our Safety Solutions business but also with our UK and Ireland account management team.

RS are a company who strive to continuously improve, and we recognise that world-class Sales teams need best in class equipment, processes, and systems. As such we provide world-class working conditions, removing distractions and enabling you to focus on what’s important. In this digital age, technology, and commercial thinking changes rapidly. We continue to develop ours and want you to be part of that evolution.

This is your opportunity to be a part of an open, diverse, and truly world-class sales team!

A little about what you will be doing in this position…

• This role will combine your expertise within PPE, account development and sales
• Working with our existing client base optimising the use of PPE and managing a pipeline of PPE opportunities.
• Being a subject matter expert within the PPE space and allocated territory
• Identifying development opportunities as well new business opportunities.
• Supporting a regional territory and mapping effectively alongside our Key account managers/corporate account managers and industry specialist
• Research target sectors, and product ranges with the objective of adding new opportunities to the pipeline
• Working seamlessly with colleagues and suppliers to best support the role
• Collaborating with PPE suppliers enabling us to bring innovation to our customers.

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

• Strong knowledge of the PPE market and product ranges, across multiple sectors.
• Experience developing existing business through value-add solutions (PPE) and identifying new business opportunities
• Experience working collaboratively within a sales environment
• As this role is supporting a specific, territory travel will form part of this position.

What can you expect from us?

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a globally reputable company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, and generous annual leave, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Join us and help make amazing happen.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.