Business Development Manager

To meet increased demand, our client, an International freight forwarder based in Essex, is looking for a Business Development Manager for their team, where remote working is available if you are based in the UK. As the Business Development Manager, you will maintain and expand relationships with clients to effectively negotiate and close opportunities. You will be ensuring customer satisfaction whilst complying with Company standards and procedures. The successful Business Development Manager will ideally have Ocean Freight / Intermodal with EU Road Freight experience, advancing sales and business development experience, and previous experience in a similar Business Development & Sales role. We are looking to speak with candidates who have good profit and sales understanding to ensure business case for projects are financially successful. This role is available hybrid or remote, depending on your location. Business Development Manager Duties: Develop and maintain business relationships with managers and senior executives to promote company growth Establishing relationships with customers Providing active and proactive information to the client Generate an increase in business from existing customers Receive enquiries, quotations, RFI/RFQ and engage with internal/external stakeholders Requirements of the Business Development Manager: Customer focussed and ability to understand service delivery standards An effective communicator both written and verbally – a confident communicator (as you ll be liaising with senior professionals across multi–million–pound organisations) Ideally, some experience within the European Freight Forwarding industry as you may be required to answer complex industry–related questions from high–profile customers Contact us today. (phone number removed) If this Business Development Manager is something you would like to know more about or you know of anyone that fits the bill, either forward this advert to them, send us their details or get in contact with us and we will do the rest. You can recommend as many people as you like via our website and earn a referral fee per candidate we place . This is an unlimited offer. As recruiters specialising in freight and shipping, Red Recruit have vacancies at all levels within the industry, so please do get in touch to tell us what you re looking for and we ll do our best to assist. T&C's apply. Please contact the office for more information. Please note: – We do not advertise all of our vacancies as some are highly confidential. Therefore please either submit your CV to us directly or call us in complete confidence. We have also setup a contacts list for candidates to join to be made aware of all relevant jobs to them. If this sounds of interest, then please get in contact with us via our website and send us your CV so that we can make sure you receive relevant updates on our latest vacancies