Business Development Manager - Regional Sales

Nationwide Platforms; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading powered access rental provider in the UK is seeking a Business Development Manager to work in regional sales. This position involves managing a portfolio of accounts, identifying sales opportunities, and developing new business. Ideal candidates will have a strong field sales background in the construction rental sector and experience in customer relationship management. This role offers a competitive salary, generous bonuses, and opportunities for career advancement within a leading company in the industry.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Quarterly bonus (OTE 30% of salary)

Car or £6,000 car allowance

Qualifications

• Proven track record in field sales within the construction rental/hire sector.
• Structured approach to territory sales planning and CRM management.
• Skilled in building relationships and developing new business through cold calling.

Responsibilities

• Work with accounts to identify opportunities in selling powered access machines.
• Nurture and close new business opportunities with lapsed accounts.
• Support customer needs through strong internal relationships.

Skills

Field sales in construction rental

Customer management

New business development

Strong internal relationships

Computer literacy (MS Excel, Word, 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.