Business Development Manager - Regional Sales

Nationwide Platforms; Appleton Thorn; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading powered access rental company in the UK is seeking a Business Development Manager to manage accounts and identify new business opportunities. The role requires a proven track record in field sales, strong customer management skills, and proficiency in MS Office applications. This position offers a competitive salary, quarterly bonuses, and opportunities for career progression. Join an inclusive team committed to safety and innovation.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Quarterly bonus

Car allowance or company car

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record of field sales in the construction rental/hire sector.
• Structured approach to territory sales planning, customer management.
• Skilled in developing existing relationships and new business.

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of accounts and identifying new business opportunities.
• Nurturing and closing opportunities with lapsed accounts.
• Building internal relationships to support customer needs.

Skills

Field sales experience in construction rental

Strong relationship development

Sales pipeline management

Customer management

Cold calling

Proficiency in MS Excel

Proficiency in MS Word

Proficiency in MS PowerPoint

Job description

Business Development Manager - Regional Sales

Competitive salary + quarterly bonus (OTE 30% of salary) + car or £6,000 car allowance

You’ll work with a portfolio of accounts that hire powered access machines, identifying opportunities to sell our market leading fleet of machines and value add services to maximise our share of wallet. You’ll also identify, nurture and close opportunities for new business with lapsed accounts and new logo customers.

You’ll have the support of industry leading operational resources, with regular investment in high quality machines and people.

As the market leader we can offer progression opportunities to move into key accounts, strategic accounts and beyond to sales management. Many of our senior management team started out as individual contributors with us.

About you:

• A proven track record of field sales in the construction rental / hire sector.
• A structured approach to territory sales planning, customer management and managing a sales pipeline via a CRM.
• Skilled in developing existing relationships AND new business development i.e. cold calling.
• Able to build strong internal relationships with operational teams in order to support customer needs.

Computer literate in MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint.

Part of the Loxam Group, Nationwide Platforms are the UK's leading specialist provider of Powered Access rental equipment, with the largest and broadest fleet, local depots spread across the country and our wealth of experience partnering with companies in a variety of sectors including Construction, Warehouse & Distribution, Aviation, Facilities Management, Industrial Services, Telecoms and Media, our customers can depend on us to provide the right solution to support their every working at height need.

At Nationwide Platforms, your safety is absolutely our priority. Our award winning BlueSky Solutions and Training division offer our customers access to the latest and safest ways to work and through long standing partnerships with our manufacturers, we will always provide equipment that will lead the way to a safer industry. Some of our innovations include the award-winning secondary guarding systems and Harness ON™, a range of pioneering Material Handling Attachments (MHAs), and the SkySentry™ control and monitoring system.

With an established workforce which supports an inclusive and diverse organisation, we are deeply committed to equal opportunities for our existing and prospective employees and recognise that our people are our greatest asset.