GERMAN SPEAKING business development manager

Quest Personal Care Global Ltd; United Kingdom; Sur place; GBP 40 000 - 55 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Quest Personal Care Global Ltd is seeking a Bi-Lingual Business Development Manager with proficiency in German and English. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in the German market, focusing on building and maintaining strong relationships with retailers and distributors.

Key responsibilities include achieving sales targets, overseeing the sales strategy in Germany, and onboarding new business partners. Candidates should possess extensive regional experience and a proven track record in business development, preferably within the beauty or personal care industry.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the German market with established relationships.
• Commercially driven, highly motivated, and target-focused.
• Experience in the beauty or personal care industry is preferred.

Responsabilités

• Achieve and exceed turnover targets.
• Develop business with existing partners and deliver new business.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with business partners.

Connaissances

Extensive regional experience in Germany

Proven track record in business development

Fluent English communication skills

Comfortable managing a broad product portfolio

Description du poste

13 Jun

We are looking to recruit a Bi-Lingual Business Development Manager (German and English language)

As our ideal candidate, you will have exceptional experience of the German market, a strong knowledge of the local regional marketplace and, ideally, established relationships with retailers, distributors and wholesalers.

You will be joining our business at an exceptionally exciting time of expansion and our ideal candidate will be UK based, proactive and professional Business Development Manager whose primary objective will be to develop our business with existing partners whilst identifying and delivering new profitable business opportunities.

Principal Accountabilities

• Achieve and exceed turnover targets.
• Oversee and implement sales strategy in Germany.
• Develop business with existing partners by increasing turnover year on year, exploring new product opportunities alongside new category opportunities, identifying gaps and increasing sales of ongoing ranges.
• Deliver new business in all territories by developing a pipeline of opportunities to improve product and brand distribution and increasing overall turnover.
• Onboard new business partners including brand and product set up through to order management and replenishment, ensuring all legal documents are completed including NDA, new account forms and contracts where relevant.
• Direct marketing efforts to support distributor and retailer activity to increase sales, coordinating with internal departments.
• Evaluate and analyse sales to support identification of opportunities or challenges.
• Forecast to support buying strategy and resource requirements.
• Share market information and research, collect customer feedback and communicate to relevant departments in the business.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of all brands and product offerings to identify profitable business opportunities.
• Provide feedback on product/category opportunities and ways to improve business processes to achieve increased turnover.
• As the lead representative of the business locally, build and maintain excellent relationships with business partners and ensure clear communication to the relevant departments internally to ensure processes run smoothly and all opportunities are delivered on time and profitably.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships internally within key areas of the business.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Skills and Experience Required

• Extensive regional experience in Germany and strong knowledge of the local market with ideally established relationships with retailers, distributors and wholesalers.
• Proven track record in business development – able to open new doors while also growing existing partners.
• Commercially driven and highly motivated – individuals who are hungry, target‑focused and comfortable operating in a fast‑moving environment.
• Able to work at pace and scale markets – balancing immediate opportunities with major retailers alongside developing smaller accounts.
• Fluent English communication skills – essential for working with our global teams.
• Comfortable managing a broad product portfolio across multiple beauty and personal care categories.
• Beauty or personal care industry experience is highly preferred.