Business Development Manager

Summary

Join Brakes as a Desk Based Business Development Manager in Tamworth (remote option available) and earn a competitive salary (£30,580 + OTE of £40k). You will be responsible for generating new business leads, building customer relationships, and achieving sales targets. This role requires experience in a B2B environment, strong communication skills, and the ability to work independently and meet deadlines. Brakes offers a range of benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, employee discounts, recognition awards, a pension plan, and career development opportunities within a large, established company.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a New Business role within a fast moving B2B environment
• Results orientated, successfully delivering against targets in a competitive marketplace
• Outstanding active listening skills with an ability to engage and influence customers
• Ability to work under pressure with a sense of urgency to work in a deadline driven environment
• Strong attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Research & prospect potential new business opportunities to maintain a healthy pipeline
• This may be a mix of incoming leads called within specified SLA’s and self-generated opportunities
• Build strong commercial customer relationships to understand their business & requirements
• Develop profitable & relevant propositions to secure new business at the correct margin
• Dealing with internal stakeholders to assist with new customers, including Depots, Credit Control etc
• Understand competitor activity & propositions to create the tailored proposals to win new customers based on Brakes value proposition
• Achieve period, quarter and annual revenue and margin targets
• Be comfortable working to demanding KPI’s in a fast pace environment
• Manage all activity through Salesforce CRM in order to maintain pipeline, activity and conversion visibility and tracking

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of Salesforce and/or SAP would be beneficial

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• Huge discount on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products
• Generous holiday allowance, with option to purchase more
• Recognition awards and Incentives
• Pension
• Real career opportunities - being part of the Sysco family, the world’s leading foodservice business, opens up a world of possibility