Business Development Manager

A brilliant opportunity has come up to work with one of the world s largest protective packaging and technical molded parts businesses. The company has been running since the late 1800 s and they are now seeking a Business Development Manager to cover the West Midlands/Southwest area for the paper and air systems side of the business. They are looking for someone who is dynamic, driven and determined to have a successful career in packaging.

Business Development Manager

Location Southwest/Midlands

£40,000 - £53,000 DOE OTE (£60,000 - £85,000)

Our client is offering a salary reflecting experience with a Hybrid car, excellent commission structure, 25 days holiday plus bank, Life Insurance 3x salary, Westfield Health Care, 4% pension, laptop, and phone. There is also a strong career path within the business.

Responsibilities

• Covering the Southwest and West Midlands area you will secure customers in ecommerce, retail, automotive, and pharma markets.
• A small portfolio of customers to look after where you will visit them on a regular basis to truly understand their needs/requirements.
• Your role includes dealing with new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, services prospection, negotiation and commercial follow up of UK customers and branching out further afield acting in the markets targeted by the organisation.
• Being part of the team ensuring the department targets are achieved and exceeded.
• You will play an active part in the development of the sales budget, monitor revenue and margins, promote the image of the company and you will continue with the improvement of the initiatives of the company.
• Weekly reports completion on customer visits, pipeline, sales projections etc
• Provide excellent communicate channels both internally and externally.

Requirements

• Ideally you will have at least 1-4 years worth of experience in the following packaging disciplines: protective, plastic, cartons, postal, bags, tubing, tapes, stretch wrap, labelling, void fill, air cushioning etc.
• 1st year you will be required to hit a new business target of £250,000+
• You must have a great understanding of the UK market particularly in the Midlands/Southwest UK.
• You must be happy developing new business opportunities and building on your successes.
• A sense business of relationships and customer service.
• Must be able to build new relationships, develop lapsed accounts and nurture all accounts given and gained.
• High interest in the technical dimension of the products.

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity or wish to receive further information, please contact Sean Turton on (phone number removed) or email a copy of your current CV to (url removed)