Business Development Manager - Bricks / Facades

Business Development Manager – Bricks

At Jewson we pride ourselves on our ability to provide a great welcome to our customers, being proactive when helping them, being trusted, and recognised for our 'customer first' approach. If you enjoy working with people, you're a good listener and you think you could help our customers feel welcome, then this Specification Sales Manager – Brick Specialist could be a great permanent opportunity for you.

The Business Development Manager position is an exciting and key role that is central to the growth plans of the Business Unit. Working remotely ideally based in Manchester or Birmingham you will work in partnership across the Business Unit to deliver profitable growth and raise the profile of our brick offering. The role is centered around the delivery of projects through engaging with Architects and Designers to secure specification opportunities in commercial applications such as schools, hospitals, large apartment blocks and similar.

What will I be doing in this role?

Work in partnership across designated Business Units, to deliver profitable growth and raise the profile of our Brick offering, ensuring all customers have a great experience in working with Jewson, through working with all functions to develop and leverage the scale of the Business Unit, and develop brick knowledge across the Jewson network.

Key day to day duties include:

Build strong internal relationships with branch and sales colleagues to identify and develop new, lapsed or dormant business opportunities
Act as a key point of contact both internally and externally for any brick–related queries and manage the supply and demand of bricks in view of ongoing and forthcoming opportunities
The identification and engagement with construction projects, typically project architects and designers to secure specification opportunities.
Identify colleagues across the Business Unit to act as 'Brick Champion's ensuring they have all the demonstrable brick knowledge and expertise
Create and build a pipeline of prospective business and manage site and brick registration processes as relevant to the nature of the build opportunity
Develop trusting relationships both internally and externally in order to deliver 'customer first' solutions every time
Realising full potential of all customer interactions and build strong, effective relationships with customers and suppliers, managing feedback accordinglyWhat skills are we looking for?

Experience of bricks in a specification based business development role. We will consider applications from applicants with experience of facades specification sales.
Experience of working in a proactive business development role, with a curious and proactive approach and the ability to develop and maintain excellent relationships with customers and suppliers
Motivation to secure and increase sales orders through existing and new business
The ability to build strong relationships internally and externally
Tenacious and driven with the ability to work towards achieving sales targets whilst maintaining the Jewson 'customer first' philosophy
A proven track record in acquiring and servicing external sales and business opportunities, often managing multiple projects at once
Strong commercial and financial understanding coupled with a professional and intelligent approach to capitalise on potential profitable business
A full driving licence as the role comes with a car and will require you to travel around the Business UnitWe also offer some fantastic benefits, including;

Competitive salary, bonus scheme
Excellent Retirement Savings Plan with additional Life Cover increasing employer contributions with service
31 days' holiday (including bank holidays)
Genuine career progression opportunities with Saint Gobain's 32+ brands.
Flexible Holiday buy–sell scheme (allowing up to 3 days' holiday to be bought or sold).
As a Jewson employee, you are automatically covered by the Saint–Gobain Life Assurance Scheme.
Employee Recognition Scheme – Recognise & Reward
Staff discounts on all UK Saint–Gobain brands!
Share SchemeWorking for Jewson and Saint–Gobain

'Making the world a better home' – Saint–Gobain's purpose; we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net–zero carbon emissions by 2050!

At Saint–Gobain people matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, our aim is to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills, and develop your career.

Did you know we have been awarded top UK & Global Employer 6 Years Running!?

We are an inclusive employer and keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you!

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

The world of work is changing, and at Saint–Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business. We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments. Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexible requirement or need that you may have for this role. We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting. But, we promise to listen.

Do you want to be part of this vision? Click apply, we would love to hear from you