Business Development Manager

Role Overview

As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for delivering sales and margin growth for your customer base, building and maintaining strong customer relationships, and analyzing business intelligence software.

What You Will Do

You will build sales strategies, communicate with management and suppliers, analyze business intelligence software, and influence the sales team.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The successful candidate must have a customer-focused approach, excellent selling skills, and strong negotiation and selling skills, with commercial awareness and knowledge of competitor activity and market conditions.

Requirements

• Confident in building sales strategies and tactics
• 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
• Customer focused approach
• Excellent selling skills
• Strong negotiation and selling skills
• Commercial awareness
• Good knowledge of competitor activity and market conditions
• 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
• Ability to work well under pressure towards deadlines

Benefits

• Exclusive discounts and cashback from 1000s of major retailers and grocers via the AAG Benefits App
• 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
• Company Car
• Mobile Phone