Business Development Manager - Warehouse Loading Bay Systems

Mitchell Maguire; Old Warren; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established firm in the UK is seeking a Business Development Manager to focus on promoting loading bay safety solutions across cold storage, distribution, and food & beverage sectors. The successful candidate will need a strong field sales track record, ideally selling premium products into warehouse-associated facilities. In this role, you will work collaboratively with a team to generate significant new business, targeting health and safety managers as well as operations managers.

Benefits

Plug-in hybrid car

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Proven hunter in business development with a strong field sales record.
• Experience selling into warehouse-associated facilities is essential.
• Ideal candidate has prior sector experience in cold storage and food & beverage.

Responsibilities

• Promote loading bay safety solutions across various sectors.
• Target health & safety and operations managers for new business.
• Work with a team to generate significant new business development.

Skills

Field sales track record

Experience with warehouse facilities

High drive and enthusiasm

Comfortable selling premium products

Self-starter mentality

Job description

Business Development Manager – Warehouse Loading Bay Systems

Remuneration: £50,000‑£52,000 + £20,000‑£25,000 commission.
Benefits: Plug‑in hybrid car + comprehensive benefits package.

Industry Sector

Loading bays, warehousing, 3PL, industrial, food & beverage, distribution centres, cold storage, retail, safety, pharmaceutical, logistics, distribution, end users, retailers and health & safety.

Areas to be Covered

M62 Corridor and M25 Corridor (Basingstoke round to Essex).

Responsibilities

• Field sales role, promoting loading bay safety solutions for warehousing with a focus on cold storage, distribution centres, food & beverage, pharmaceutical and retail.
• Promote loading bay safety solutions into warehouse facilities targeting health & safety managers, operations managers and finance managers.
• Typical solutions £5,000‑£250,000.
• Customers include Coca‑Cola, Mars, DHL, GXO, etc.
• Work in a team of four nationally, tasked with generating circa £350,000‑£500,000 of new business development.
• New business/hunter role – selling directly into end users and owners of warehousing facilities or 3PL companies, discussing their safety requirements for loading bays (more than 45,000 loading bays for food & beverage alone).

Qualifications

• Proven hunter with a field sales track record in business development.
• Must have sold into warehouse‑associated facilities.
• Comfortable selling a premium product/solution.
• High drive and enthusiasm.
• Ideally sold capital equipment or material handling solutions.
• Prior sector experience within cold storage, distribution centres, food & beverage, pharmaceutical and retail sectors is ideal.
• Specific safety sector experience is not essential but may be useful.
• Knowledge of loading bays not required.
• Self‑starter, coachable mentality.

Company

• Well established.
• Circa £6m UK turnover.
• 20+ UK employees.