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

Dettmer Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Manchester is seeking a skilled project logistics professional to acquire new customers and maintain existing relationships. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on project forwarding, excellent negotiation skills, and be fluent in both German and English. This role offers a permanent employment contract, flexible working hours, and numerous employee benefits. If you're conscientious, reliable, and oriented towards customer service, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Permanent employment contract

Flexible working hours

Company car for private use

Company pension scheme

Corporate fitness program

Qualifications

• Ideally focused on transport / project logistics.
• Solid professional experience in project and plant forwarding.
• Confident handling of budgeting and cost analysis.

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

Customer orientation

Negotiation skills

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