Business Development Executive

Business Development Executive

Salary & Benefits:

• £45,000 negotiable, depending on experience
• Profit sharing scheme
• Excellent company pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Fantastic career

Company Description:A leading distributor of data networking products for over 40 years. The business supplies into the electrical wholesale marketplace, data infrastructure installers and industrial end users and are part of a significant, privately owned group of companies, employing over 2,000 people throughout the UK.

Role:

• Creating the strategy and plan to develop and lead the internal business development team, focused on pro-actively building customer relationships and business levels and working within a defined target list of new and existing customers
• Working on groups of customers that already have group agreements in place and proactively calling new and dormant customers
• Selling existing products to customers that are already purchasing from an alternative source
• Forecasting and sales planning
• Answering telephone enquiries, raising quotations & following up, processing orders and handling ordering queries.
• Building product and brand awareness with customers
• Some external customer meetings may be necessary but not common

Person & Skills Required:

• Significant telephone sales experience, ideally in the data networking and/or electrical wholesale markets but not essential
• Full product and market training will be provided, but it would be advantageous to have experience of the UK Electrical Wholesale market and the market dynamics that operate within
• Experience of managing an internal sales team with the potential to develop into more wider functions within the business management team and supporting the General Manager
• Successful track record in managing customers, sales performance and internal teams
• Experienced in using CRM systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A positive, hardworking, can-do attitude with the ability to work under pressure
• Dynamic with a good sense of humour and a passion for achievement and success
• Customer service focused approach
• Experienced in Microsoft Suite (Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Teams)
• Attention to detail and organised
• Team player
• This role will require a hard-working and likeable individual, who will grow relationships and offer exceptional levels of customer service to their diverse customer base

This is a management team entry level role and as such, the candidate must be able to lead by example and pro-actively develop the Business Development function within the company.