Business Development Manager - Sea and Road Freight - Lutterworth

Business Development Manager - Sea and Road Freight - Lutterworth

Field Appointments - Office and working from home

Salary C: £45K to £55K Negotiable on experience plus Car Allowance plus Commission OTE £90K + plus Benefits free gym membership, private medical care and an employer pension contribution of 5% (based on the employee contributing 5%).

Our Client is one of the leaders in cross border ecommerce delivery. The guiding principle of our Clients business is to allow customers to find sending parcels cross border as simple as sending parcels within the UK. In offering a range of global delivery options, supported by a choice of final mile delivery partners, and backed up by smart and intuitive IT solutions, their solution has taken a fresh look at how to support their customers to achieve cross border growth simply and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Generate leads and cold call prospective customers (create a sales pipeline)

• Generate custom from said pipeline.
• Meet with clients face to face, over the phone / Teams etc.
• Build / develop relationships with clients
• Understand the needs of your clients and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet/exceed these
• Have a good understanding of the businesses' services and be able to advise others about them

Skills and Experience

To achieve all of that, you will be able to demonstrate and show evidence of:

• An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with clients and business associates
• interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients
• written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills
• IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
• decision-making skills
• a flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.

Personal abilities/skills

• Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
• Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to work
• The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload
• The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals

Apply Vicky