Business Development Manager

Europa Worldwide Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in the UK is seeking a Business Development Manager. This role involves developing and maintaining a customer base, sourcing sales leads, and making telesales calls. The ideal candidate should possess strong sales skills and customer service passion, alongside excellent communication abilities. The position offers training, career development, and benefits such as a company car or allowance. A full, clean UK driving license is required and successful candidates will thrive in a targeted environment.

Benefits

Training and career development

Company car or allowance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Contributory company pension scheme

Qualifications

• Must have a full, clean UK driving license.
• Strong, confident, and resilient personality.
• Passionate about sales and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain customer base within allocated area.
• Make telesales calls to potential clients.
• Visit potential customers and prepare quotations.
• Manage accounts for the first 12 months.
• Focus on selling within existing customers after 12 months.

Skills

Sales skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Resilience

Job description

Who we are?

Europa Worldwide Group is an ambitious independent logistics operator with three divisions, Europa Road, Europa Air & Sea, and Europa Warehouse. Europa Worldwide Group has been featured in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 for three years. With 15 sales offices in the UK and Ireland, Europa also have offices in Europe and international sites including, Hong Kong, China, India and Dubai.

What we’re looking for:

This is a fantastic opportunity for and experienced sales driven and entrepreneurial individual to have the opportunity to build your own ‘mini’ business and progress within a growing company.

As a Business Development Manager, your main responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining your customer base within your allocated area/location.
• Source sales leads using the company’s in-house CMS, or other sources of information.
• Make telesales calls (outbound) to potential clients to profile and qualifying the prospect, using your knowledge of the Europa product portfolio.
• Visit potential customers and prepare quotations for presentation to the customer.
• For the first 12 months, manage the accounts in your business base by maintaining and developing the levels of business within that client base, ideally with the aim of becoming the sole supplier.
• Make regular contact with your customers pro-actively to ensure that we are satisfying the needs of the customer and with a mind to developing further business opportunities from within that account.
• After 12 months, focussing exclusively on selling within existing customer and closing new customers to hand over to a customer service team.

What we offer in return?

• Training and career development
• Company car or car allowance, laptop and phone
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• A fantastic working culture which promotes excellent work/life balance.
• The opportunity to develop, progress and work within a global organisation which is rapidly growing.
• Europa benefits scheme (on successful completion of probation period)
• Contributory company pension scheme
• Working closely with a team of talented individuals with a great work ethic who also love to have fun!

What you will bring to the role as a Business Development Manager:

• A strong, confident, and resilient personality
• Must have a full, clean UK driving license.
• Passionate about sales and customer service.
• The ability to work well and thrive under pressure, within a targeted environment.
• Have fantastic communication skills both written and verbal
• Be eager to learn, develop and excel in your career within sales.

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Europa Worldwide Group are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Europa Worldwide Group do not accept agency CV submissions unless specifically requested/ engaged with the role by the Internal Recruitment Team. Please do not submit speculative CV’S to our Recruiters, Employees, Hiring Managers, or any branches/locations directly. Europa will not be responsible for any fees related to CV’s received in this unsolicited manner.

Please note that an offer of employment is subject to the completion of a satisfactory pre-employment checks.