Business Development Manager

Salary: Up to £35k DOE

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Contracted hours: 40 hours per week (5 days out of 7)

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shift Pattern: 8.30am to 5pm with a 30 minute break for lunch.

Location: Field-Based

Territory Area: M4 Corridor to M5 (Swindon, Bath, Bristol & South Gloucestershire) & Wiltshire-

Do you have experience and a proven track record of account management and prospecting new accounts within the foodservice sector – winning and growing new business, retention, gross margin and sales growth.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday- plus 8 bank holidays
• Parking on site
• Excellent career progression opportunities
• 25 days holiday- plus 8 bank holidays
• Salary Exchange pension after 3 months service
• Life assurance scheme
• Employee Saving Scheme
• Employee Benefits Platform- discounts with supermarkets, hight street brands, holiday companies and gyms
• Long Service Recognition programme
• Free hot drinks
• Eye tests
• Weekly free fruit days

The role:

• Achieve sales and margin targets based on a commercial, budgeted plan.
• Win & retain profitable new business, grow retained customer sales and margins to facilitate achievement of budgeted targets. in line with company standards.
• Ensure an appropriate level of regular customer contact to achieve targets with planned objectives and defined outputs prior to each call.
• Work with internal departments and suppliers to maximise sales, margins and deliver excellent Customer Service.
• Drive agreed company campaigns and support the sales strategy to meet and exceed customer and company targets.
• Work closely with your Telesales colleagues to ensure compliance, retention and delivery of company campaigns.
• Maintain full understanding for your defined geographical area portfolio and each customer of sales, margin and customer performance v targets utilising available tools (such as Vecta).
• Ensure all relevant administrative and reporting requirements are fulfilled in a timely manner for all day-to-day work and ad-hoc requirements when requested.
• Maintain a sufficient number of new prospect and pipeline opportunities to ensure sales targets are achieved and exceeded.

The ideal applicant will have:

• Product knowledge and awareness.
• Organised, planned, PC literate able to work to targets, deadlines and under pressure.
• A real “people person” with excellent communication and stakeholder management and customer service skills.
• A customer-oriented approach to account management which aims to exceed expectations.
• Excellent relationship building and negotiation skills.
• Sound commercial awareness and business acumen

If you have previous experience, apply today to charlener@ RE Resource Group today

RE acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

RE Recruitment would like to thank you for applying for the above role. We do try to come back to all applications however if you haven’t heard from a consultant within 5 working days, this unfortunately means that you have been unsuccessful.

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