Business Development Manager, Washroom, Professional

TN United Kingdom; Tadworth; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Business Development Manager to drive new business in the washroom category. This role offers the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the UK, focusing on acquiring large end-user customers across key sectors like FM and Healthcare. You'll leverage your expertise in digital selling and business intelligence to develop strategies that drive market penetration and growth. Join a team that values innovation and excellence, with a commitment to promoting a healthy work-life balance through comprehensive benefits and flexible work arrangements. If you're eager to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Benefits

Gym Memberships

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Critical Illness Cover

Travel Insurance

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Flexible Work Schedules

Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Strong experience in selling to large end-users with a focus on business growth.
• Expert in negotiation and pipeline management with a customer-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage new business quickly for hand off to Regional Team.
• Leverage market insights to drive customer engagement and market penetration.

Skills

End User facing Selling

Digital Selling

Negotiation

Pipeline Management

Customer Planning & Strategy

Tools

Digital Technology

Social Media

eCommerce

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Business Development Manager, Washroom, Professional, Tadworth

Client: Kimberly-Clark

Location: Tadworth, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

020385f2abb1

Job Views:

10

Posted:

24.04.2025

Expiry Date:

08.06.2025

Job Description:

Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

What makes working for Kimberly-Clark so special?

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Excited yet?

You should be! Not only do our brands already have a rich heritage but fuelled by increasing brand investments and strong product innovation, we also have bold plans to further accelerate growth over the coming years.

As a Business Development Manager, you thrive on winning new business, have a passion for sales and are hungry to win in the market.

To succeed in this role, you will be a confident and highly credible individual with experience of New Business acquisition of large multi-million-pound end user customers. This will likely have been gained in a Business Development Manager or similar role focused on Business Growth. You will have the motivation and hunger to win new accounts for Kimberly-Clark, using your extensive experience of generating new business into key sectors such as FM, Healthcare and Government.

This role is remote based so you can be based anywhere in the UK and happy to travel.

Key Role Accountabilities:

1. Leverages Business Intelligence/ Market Insights to develop pipeline to target and engage customers to drive market penetration.
2. Specialist in our KCP Washroom Category with focus on FM and Cleaning.
3. Partners with Sales Development Representative (SDR) to turn qualified leads into revenue generating new business.
4. Develops and manages new business quickly for hand off to Regional Team or Key Account Team to nurture and expand the business.
5. Collaborates with Channel Team and Channel partners to initiate/build relationship with the prospective end customers.
6. Brings insights from customer meetings to inform the customer journey, product/ innovation roadmap and marketing programs.
7. Embraces digital technology (video, social media, eCommerce) to identify leads and business opportunities.

Business Objectives and Performance Measures:

1. Individual New Closed Business financial targets: gross profit, account profitability, growth, new business by category.
2. # Net New end users.
3. Digital metrics: e.g., sending videos to customers, posting on LinkedIn/ online forums, hosting video meetings.

Skills and Experience

1. Strong experience in End User facing Selling (hunting) of Large End-Users.
2. Functional Skills: In depth digital Selling, pricing strategy, expert in pipeline management.
3. Competencies: Expert in Negotiation, reasonable customer planning & strategy, business acumen.
4. Mindsets: Demonstrates agility adapting to new situations quickly, relationship oriented, resiliency, proactivity. Active learning and active listening.

Total Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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Primary Location

United Kingdom- Flexible Location - South East England

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time