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

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

Job summary

A corporate logistics company located in the UK is seeking a candidate to acquire new customers and maintain existing relationships in the mechanical and plant engineering sector. Responsibilities include advising potential customers, creating transport concepts, and processing tenders. The ideal candidate should have relevant training or studies, solid experience in project forwarding, and fluent German and English skills. This position offers permanent employment in a well-established company with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Permanent employment contract

Flexible working hours

Company car for private use

Company pension scheme

Company health insurance

Corporate fitness program

Qualifications

• Completed commercial training or business administration studies, ideally focused on transport/project logistics.
• Solid professional experience in project and plant forwarding.
• Confident handling of budgeting; project-related cost and result analysis.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; negotiation skills at all levels.
• High willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Acquire new customers, especially key accounts from mechanical and plant engineering sector.
• Expand and maintain existing customer and business relationships.
• Advise potential customers up to the offer stage and implementation phase.
• Create transport concepts and offers; process tenders.
• Intensive information exchange with management, specialist departments, and colleagues.

Skills

Fluent German

Fluent English

Strong communication skills

Negotiation skills

Customer orientation

Reliability

Team-oriented work ethic

Education

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