Business Development Manager

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Reading
Salary
Plus GBP6000 car allowance
Posted
19 Jul 2021
Closes
16 Aug 2021
Job Title
Business Partner
Category
Engineering
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Business Development Manager

The purpose of this role is to define and generate additional sales activities to maximise Business Profitability. You'll maximise selling opportunities and ensure targets are achieved and to pro–actively seek and pursue new business.

Key Role Responsibilities and Accountabilities

* Ensure that market trends as defined by likely customer, supplier and competitor activity, are fully understood so as inform the development of realistic and achievable sales plans.

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Develop robust sales plans, within the constraints of operational capacity, that seek to secure profitable new market share and gross margin growth through a combination of new business and new product sales through lowest cost to serve.

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Ensure sales plans reflect the need to minimise stock levels, work in progress and customer debtor days in order control unnecessary investment in working capital.

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Develop, publicise and apply a business commercial operating policy, informed as appropriate by the Group, within limits of their authority on pricing, credit etc.

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Personally, lead negotiations with potential customers and through regular meetings, build relationships to maximise commercial opportunities with them.

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Ensuring that effective systems of control and information exist, routinely monitor sales performance against plan in order to maximise profit potential and where necessary initiate action to bring that performance "back–on–track".

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Ensure that operations, including those undertaken on the Company's behalf by third party service providers, are conducted in manner that fully complies with health and safety, quality, environmental and corporate policies.

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Pro–actively sell our wide range of products and services, promoting the Barrett GROUP and ensure maximum revenue generation through cross business selling.

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Be an ambassador for high customer service standards that seek to build customer retention levels.

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Process sales enquiries / orders and see all administration through to completion, ensuring excellent levels of customer service.

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Liaise with Sales Manager to ensure targets are achieved.

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Visit customers – existing and new.

Essential Requirement

* Previous experience in a target driven sales role.

* A strong understanding of the sales process.

* Experience working within the Steel Industry.

* Builds strong relationships quickly.

* Proactive attitude and approach.

* Thrives off working to targets and KPI's.

* Excellent communication & Customer Service skills.

* Organised & methodical in your approach.

* Tenacity & resilience to be successful in this busy, target driven role.

* Excellent computer & numerical skills.

For more information, please do not hesistate to give our team a call on (phone number removed)

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