Business Development Manager

• Rapidly growing organisation in the industrial cleaning & hygiene world
• Company who invests in people's development
• New account acquisition role within the Retail, Wholesaler, and Distribution channels
• Strategic new business growth role working closely with existing National Account Manager
• Well established brand in market, associated with quality products

Business Development Manager

Candidate Location: Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield

The Role: The brand-new Business Development Manager role will cover the entirety of the UK in which you will be targeting national and independent Retailers, Wholesalers, and Distribution businesses. The Business Development Manager will be selling a range of chemicals and equipment used in the cleaning, preparation, and decontamination within various applications across engineering, industrial, and construction environments. Furthermore, you will be able to sell their huge range for commercial premises in the Hospitality & Catering sectors also. Our client already have a strong retail & distribution portfolio including the likes of B&Q, Screwfix, and Stax. Your role will be to pro-actively target similar businesses and add to that portfolio.

This is a growth role for our client which is designed to have a big impact on their growth plan for the next two-years and beyond. As such, this is a perfect opportunity for a field sales professional who has a couple of years experience under their belt, who isn't quite getting the opportunity to progress their career into major retail & distribution sales and wants that exposure and added responsibility. Our client are keen to train, develop, and coach someone and build their career.

The Company: This business is one which grows from the ground up. They have invested heavily in talent and training and are now looking for a forward thinking sales professional to continue their growth. This is a new position which shows their ambition to keep growing. They are a fantastic business with a strong leadership team, a solid business plan, and are now looking for people to join them on their growth trajectory into 2025.

We are looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:

• Ideally have experience in industrial consumables, tools, PPE, chemical, FMCG sales
• Or, has sold chemicals & consumables for commercial cleaning applications
• Have sold into reseller, retail, or distribution accounts
• Are able to travel and comfortable with plenty of face to face customer contact
• Demonstrable track record in developing new business
• Someone who is prepared to go the extra mile
• Clean driving licence

Salary: £40k Basic Salary + monthly commission (£45k-50k total package year 1) + company car + phone/laptop + pension + 20 days holiday (rises to 25 after 2 years)