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Business Development Manager
Softcard (acquired by Google). Accountable for delivering sales and margin growth for your customer base.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
What you’ll need- 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
Comp & perks- 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
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business intelligence softwarecustomer account managementsales strategiesnegotiation skillsselling skillspresentation skills
Soft Skills
customer focusedcommunication skillsrelationship buildingdynamicperformance-orientedcommercial awarenessability to work under pressure