Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager – London – Up to £60,000 plus commission

Our client are an internationally recognised, multi award-winning Logistics Company and looking for a Business Development Manager to join them to help support grow business.

On offer:

• Salary: Up to £60,000 – depending on experience
• Commission
• Car Allowance
• Annual leave 28 days inclusive of public holidays
• Company Laptop
• Company healthcare plan
• Gym membership discounts
• Plus more…

Key Responsibilities:

• Growing and retaining your own portfolio of new commercial clients
• Actively seeking out new sales opportunities in order to build sales pipeline to ensure a constant stream of new prospects.
• Scheduling and attending meetings with prospective clients.
• Maintaining a highly consultative approach by selling supply chain solutions to prospective clients
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis, ensuring they are consistently meeting or exceeding them.
• Ensure their CRM system is being used effectively to track, monitor, and report and plan strategically new exciting business opportunities.
• Play a key role in new business pitches and hold responsibility for the effective on-boarding of new clients
• Understand the value drivers of the business and identifying profitable commercial opportunities to grow revenue and market share.
• Maintaining the revenue and gross profit of each account ensuring they remain profitable, proactively exhausting all additional revenue streams opportunities.
• Monitor performance of commercial activities using key metrics and prepare reports for management team.
• Working closely with the Marketing team to generate and nurture a pipeline of qualified sales leads
• Represent the company externally e.g. at networking events, conferences and exhibitions to enhance and strengthen the company’s profile and optimise all business development opportunities.
• Interpreting market trends and adapting to industry changes in accordance with Leadership Team policy.

Requirements:

• Experienced Freight BDM with at least 5yrs+ experience
• Market: Experience in selling import LCL, FCL from Far East /Middle east
• Restrictive Covenant: not more than 6 months
• Location: Essex, Suffolk, Sussex or London

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