Job Description
Business Development & Product Development Manager
Landscaping (industry experience is a MUST for this role)
Driveways, Drainage, Gardening, Fencing, Decking and Outdoor Decorating
£23,000 - £26,000 Basic Salary
Car, Phone, Laptop, Pension, Commission, Bonus based on Branch Performance
A Market Leading Building Materials firm are now looking for an individual who has experience with selling landscaping products with a keen eye for detail. This role will be a mix of doing a generic BDM role, visiting customers, recommending products, organising and ordering a product portfolio for customers based on their full outdoor refurbishment project. As well as this, you will be accountable for developing any bespoke products needed to satisfy customer requirements while noticing any upcoming market trends that will enable yourself and the business to bring in any additional revenue.
Key Responsibilities
• Daily management of landscaping projects
• Working with the internal teams for quotations, product enquiries, stock levels and all in all, working as a team to ensure the requirements of the customers are met
• Booking and attending customer meeting from your own accord as well as inbound enquiries
• Preparing and delivering on sales targets on a quarterly and monthly basis
• Ensure customers are kept in the loop throughout the entire project including delivery times, any product issues, new product introductions and so on.
• Handling complaints from customers in an appropriate manner
• Working with suppliers and keeping in touch with them regularly to ensure needs are met
• Planning and preparing meetings for both customers and your line manager for updates
• Ensuring deadlines are met and all areas have been covered - sales, H&S, staff costs, profit, gross margins and stock.
• Regularly monitor customer spends and analyse who is spending what, where and when in order to generate a solid plan of action for the remainder of your working career with the business
• Full account management working as a 360 salesman
• Keeping an eye on competition and upcoming market trends then putting a plan in place on how to introduce new products and who will be your target audience for this
Thank you for reading & your application.
Please contact me if you have the above experience / require more information on (phone number removed).
Kind Regards,
Shannon Clough
Commercial Permanent Consultant - Leeds
Interaction Recruitment plc
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Leeds
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