National Business Development Manager - Facilities Management

Rexel France; Long Eaton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car or Cash Allowance

Performance Related Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

33 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Private Medical Insurance

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Staff discounts

Job summary

Rexel France is seeking a National Business Development Manager to drive profitable growth within the Facilities Management sector. This role involves building and maintaining customer partnerships, developing tailored solutions, and leading internal teams to achieve sales targets. The ideal candidate should have strong commercial expertise, sales experience, and the ability to influence and negotiate effectively. Rexel offers benefits such as a company car or cash allowance, bonuses, and extensive learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Commercial expertise in margin, P&L, and cost to serve.
• Experience in business development, ideally in Facilities Management.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive profitable growth by managing customer partnerships.
• Create tailored solutions for innovation and profitability.
• Lead the development of internal teams to achieve targets.

Skills

Collaboration

Accountability

Customer Partnership

Results Driven

Influencing

Networking

Job description

Company Description

Are you an experienced sales and business development professional looking to drive profitable growth, gain market share and create future pipelineopportunities within the Facilities Management sector.

We are looking for professional, ambitious and motivated sales professionals who can build existingcustomer partnerships and create and forge new business opportunities.

This role is working within our National Accounts Teamto drive new business into our branches and cement long term value added partnerships across the Facilities Managementsector.

The Benefits of a Career with Rexel:

• Company Car or Cash Allowance
• Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover
• Time Off: 33 days annual leave(including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!)
  • You can also buy and sell holiday each year
  • Enhanced parental leave
• Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one
• Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance/Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more!
• Perks: Contributory pension scheme and life assurance, Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education

Job Description

As a NationalBusiness Development Managerat Rexel, you willdrive profitable growth, gaining market share and creating future pipelineopportunities.

This role is pivotal in driving sales, collaborating with branch based teams and creating an exceptional customer relationship and service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Roadmap: Use data driven insights and tools to create a plan to increase marketshare (within a defined geography/segment/specialist product group) identifying potentialand long-term growth opportunities through new offerings, markets, or revenue streams.
• Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a pipeline of customer partnerships
• Customer Partnerships: Create partnerships and strategic relationships with customer (brand/business) for long term future opportunity.
• Value Proposition Development: Create tailored solutions leveraging preferred suppliersto drive innovation and profitability.
• Pricing and Profitability: Govern regional pricing, margins, and contract profitability.
• Market Agility: Adapt strategies based on market and segment changes for long termfuture growth.
• Multichannel Growth: Promote multichannel adoption to innovate customer propositions.
• Customer Experience: Ensure exceptional customer experience and OTIF throughcollaboration with internal end to end experts to drive new business and successfulimplementation.
• Team Development: Upskill internal teams, ensuring clear account ownership and regularreviews to achieve growth targets

Qualifications

At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles, the behaviours that will set you up for success as a NationalBusiness Development Managerinclude:

• COLLABORATION– Building partnerships and working collaboratively with othersto meet shared objectives
• HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY– holds self and others accountable to meetcommitments
• CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP– Creating new customer partnerships with multidimensional relationships for strategic insight for future opportunity
• DRIVES RESULTS- Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• INFLUENCES-using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment ofothers
• BUILDS NETWORKS- Effectively building formal and informal relationshipnetworks inside and outside the organisation

What we are looking for:

• Commercial expertise (margin, P&L, Cost to serve)
• Influencing and Negotiation skills
• Experience within a business development role with proven results, ideally from a Facilities Management background
• Able to make data driven decisions to drive strategic plans and growth opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to collaborate crossfunctionally.
• Proven sales experience with the ability to prospect, qualify and close new business.
• Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques.

Additional Information

At Rexel UK, we’re all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results.

By coming together as one team, we’re building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities.

Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.