Job Description

Business Development Manager

Salary: 40-50k

Work Times: 9:00am - 5:30pm

Office: Full time in office The Role:

- Promoting the company to new customers to deliver and maintain business growth.

- Attract and retain new customers for domestic deliveries, domestic wholesale sales and export sales.

- Understanding your customers' needs through market research and relationship building.

- Be first point of contact for all your customers with the ability to support the sales team where necessary.

- Customer networking to identify new business opportunities and build strong relationships.

To Ensure Success:

- Your character should be out- going, customer focused, driven and strong minded.

- You should have experience working with customers up-selling products and services.

- Be capable of attracting and retaining new customers.

- Have a proven record of demonstrating initiative, delivering results and working independently.

- Be a strong negotiator with excellent communication skills.

- Have a good educational and computer literacy background.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Identifying and qualifying prospective customers by obtaining accurate due diligence documentation, conducting internal due diligence and conducting in-depth research and pro-active networking.

Provide an explanation of our sales process, obtain details of subsequent quotes and information on enquiries to customers in a timely fashion.

Enhancing up-to-date knowledge on new products, procedures, services and tools by attending departmental and training meetings.

Consistently providing information via email and entries onto the calendar so that all deliveries are planned and coordinated with the warehouse.

Always maintaining professionalism, diplomacy, sensitivity and tact to portray the company in a positive manner.

Continuously updating all customer/suppliers on New and Existing Company product lines, modifications, changes and enhancements.

Scheduling appointments and meeting existing customers to identify and qualify potential prospects and present current product offers.

Ensure the effective planning of deliveries either via truck, lorry, sea freight or air freight by liaising with logistics and the warehouse

Ensure the transport and logistics information is given to the customer and necessary department with pricing information for services offered, reasonable time frames and payment procedures- this includes date coding, labelling, packaging and container loading arrangements - internal and external organisation of these services.

Ensure that the internal transport and logistics teams are given customer information within a reasonable time frame for them to arrange and execute effectively the customer orders.

When possible provide professional demonstrations or presentations of Company products and services while onsite or through visiting customer externally.

Liaising between the Company and the customers for up-to-date pricing, service and latest product release launches.

Updating and maintaining customer accounts records, including contact names and numbers for future sales, as well as ensuring customer due diligence is up to date and accurate.

Aggressively following up on business opportunities via networking during trade shows.

Activity reporting requirements: You should complete sales activity report each week and deliver it to management via email on Friday.

Benefits:

Pension Scheme Flexible working hours On-sit Parking
Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 40,000.00-50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Free parking On-site parking UK visa sponsorship
Schedule:

8 hour shift Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:

Luton LU1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:

Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:

FMCG and/or Export : 3 years (preferred) SALES: 5 years (preferred) FMCG: 3 years (preferred)
Language:

Arabic, Hebrew and/or Mandarin (preferred)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person