Business Development Manager

MS285 – Business Development Manager

Location: Cardiff

Salary: GBP40,000 per annum Circa + car allowance

Overview: First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Business Development Manager on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex–military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Follow the pre–defined sales cadence and sales process to ensure the development of quality pipeline that leads to winning and growing business.
• Management of activities in the sales territory and regularly tracking of actual sales vs. plan to achieve sales and performance targets.
• Identify new prospective clients and nurture good working relationships with them.
• Deliver integrated solutions in professional presentations, with a detailed understanding of requirements to prospective customers.
• Writing proposals or presentations.
• Issuing forecast reports detailing your business pipeline and expected successes in any given period.
• Meeting sales targets as issued by the Sales Director.
• Developing a business pipeline to twice that of the issued sales target for any given period by the end of the first year.
• Taking personal responsibility for generating multiple new business appointments each week.
• Completing tasks on your 121's.
• Maximising Profit with our customer base whilst maintaining customer centric approach.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in business development management.
• Clear & inspiring communication & presentation skills.
• Positive mindset, driven & decisive.
• Able to identify opportunities whilst managing relationships with customers & key stakeholders.
• Strong all–round communication & negotiation /influencing skills.
• Passionate about building strong relationships.
• Full & Valid UK driving licence.
• IT Literate.
• Ability to work independently, juggling & prioritising across workloads & consistently hitting sales targets.
• Strong commercial skills in developing & executing B2B sales.
• Exceptional project management skills.