Business Development Manager

Role Overview

• Accountable for delivering sales and margin growth for your customer base.
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships within your targeted territory.
• Confident in building sales strategies and tactics within your required territory.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with Branch, Regional and Senior Management.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, field-based trainers, and product managers.
• Effectively analyse business intelligence software.
• Able to influence the branch management and sales team.

Requirements

• The successful candidate must have a customer focused approach with excellent selling skills, combined with the ability to communicate to all customer groups building strong relationships across the region.
• Dynamic and performance-oriented individual with strong negotiation and selling skills.
• Commercial awareness and good knowledge of competitor activity and market conditions is a must.
• Extensive experience with customer account management
• Previous experience delivering sales and margin growth within a business-to-business environment.
• Experience at finding and developing new business.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong training and presentation skills
• Work well under pressure towards deadlines.

Benefits

• Exclusive discounts and cashback from 1000s of major retailers and grocers via the AAG Benefits App, including Tesco, Boots and Just Eat.
• Opportunities for career progression and bespoke training.
• Free pension advice from our standard pension provider.
• Free access to Health, Wellbeing and Financial tools.
• Potential to earn a performance based bonus, paid monthly.
• Discount on car parts