Business Development Manager

Bidfresh Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fresh food provider in the UK seeks a Business Development Manager to spearhead customer strategy and expand market reach. You will utilize your analytical skills and customer insights to develop solutions tailored for client needs. The role emphasizes your history of winning new business and fostering relationships with customers and suppliers. With a supportive team culture, enjoy benefits like discounts on products, healthcare access, and a minimum of 30 days holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Discounts on products and shopping

Free parking

Health care cash plan

Confidential support and counselling

Pension scheme

Minimum of 30 days holiday

Qualifications

• Highly motivated with a history of achieving new business wins.
• Strong understanding of customer needs and competitive landscape.
• Ability to translate data into actionable strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer strategies to expand reach.
• Build relationships with customers and suppliers.
• Analyze competition and develop unique selling propositions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Customer relationship management

Creative thinking

Financial planning

Communication skills

Job description

To be every chef’s first choice for fresh ingredients is the vision and passion of everyone who works here. And our journey to become the natural first choice means we have to have the best people in the right roles doing a great job every day. As a Business Development Manager, you’ll be leading the way in expanding our reach through brilliant customer strategies and solutions. This opportunity is key to our growth plans and will deliver a personal, successful and winning proposition for every customer.

About the role

This is a multi-dimensional role where you will blend data insight and understanding, customer relationships, creative thinking and serious financial planning. Every existing customer is an opportunity to help them improve their service and every new customer is an opportunity to build our client portfolio. This is truly big picture business development and you will understand the needs of customers, suppliers and teams to help them succeed. Business Development at Bidfresh is exciting, challenging and focused on growth.

Skills and experience

As Business Development Manager, you’ll be highly-skilled in a range of areas and highly-motivated to succeed. You’ll be fascinated by customer need and understand the changing nature of their business. You’ll be analytical – translating date and insight into actionable strategies. You’ll be personable – communicating your plans with management, sales teams, customers and suppliers. You’ll know the competition – and know how our points of difference can win. And you’ll bring with you a history of big new business wins and astute commercial ideas. This is a key role as we expand our reach and become ‘chef’s first choice’.

About you

About us

The Bidfresh journey

We’re Bidfresh. A fast growing team of fresh food experts in a collection of regional businesses across the UK. We’re a big business with big ambitions. We succeed by focusing on the detail. By going the extra mile to find the best products. By building relationships with our partners. And by going further to support our teams to develop and grow. Our work is full of excitement, care and a big sense of achievement. And our ‘Fresh’ values guide the way. Make our journey, your journey, and take your first small steps towards a big career adventure.

Rewards and benefits

We’ve created a benefits package that is designed to support you and reward your hard work. Every employee (subject to completion of probation) is automatically entitled to:

• Discounts: Save on Bidfresh products, high street shopping, travel, and cinema tickets
• Free parking: Free parking at our sites
• Health care cash plan: Access to a health care cash plan
• Confidential support and counselling: Access to free confidential support and counselling
• Pension scheme: Access to a pension scheme
• A minimum of 30 days holiday entitlement