Sales Manager / Business Development Manager (M / W / D)

Dettmer Group; Brighton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics company in Brighton is seeking a professional to manage customer relationships and project logistics effectively. The ideal candidate will have strong language skills in both German and English, along with a background in commercial training focused on transport or project logistics. Responsibilities include acquiring new customers in the mechanical sector, creating transport concepts, and maintaining long-term relationships. This role offers a permanent contract and various benefits including flexible working hours and a company car.

Benefits

Permanent employment contract

Flexible working hours

Company car for private use

Company pension scheme

Corporate fitness program

Qualifications

• Completed training focused on transport or project logistics.
• Solid experience in project and plant forwarding required.
• High willingness to travel as part of the role.

Responsibilities

• Acquire new customers from the mechanical and plant engineering sector.
• Expand and maintain existing customer relationships.
• Create transport concepts and process tenders.

Skills

Fluent German

Fluent English

Strong communication skills

Negotiation skills

Customer orientation

Education

Completed commercial training or business administration studies

Job description

Base data

We are looking for

• They acquire new customers, especially key accounts from the mechanical and plant engineering sector.
• They are responsible for expanding and maintaining existing customer and business relationships.
• They advise potential customers up to the offer stage and the implementation phase.
• They create transport concepts and offers and process tenders.
• They exchange information intensively with management, specialist departments and colleagues.

We are offering

Work with THE SPECIALISTS!

With our 10 international branches and around 100 specialists, we, the LS Cargo Group, develop tailor‑made concepts for our customers worldwide in the field of project logistics.

WE TAKE CARE – this applies to our customers as well as especially to our employees.

We offer you the following benefits :

• Permanent employment contract in a well‑established corporate group
• A varied and challenging range of tasks with plenty of scope for personal responsibility
• Diverse further education and development opportunities
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of mobile working
• Company car, also for private use
• Company pension scheme
• Company health insurance and childcare subsidy
• Corporate fitness program via EGYM Wellpass, bicycle leasing via JobRad
• Attractive discounts via our corporate benefits portal

Required

• Completed commercial training or business administration studies, ideally with a focus on transport / project logistics
• Solid professional experience in project and plant forwarding
• Confident handling of budgeting as well as project‑related cost and result analysis
• Fluent German and English skills, both written and spoken; knowledge of another foreign language is an advantage.
• Strong communication and presentation skills as well as negotiation skills at all levels
• Strong customer and service orientation
• Conscientious, reliable and team‑oriented work ethic
• High willingness to travel