Customer Care Assistant jobs in United Kingdom

We are growing! We've invested in new premises. Now we need an experienced Sales Manager / Business Development Manager from a chemical products sales background to drive things forward. We're a manufacturer of own label chemical products to a diverse range of industries (cleaning, hygiene, janitorial, industrial, automotive) looking to drive sales via strong account management, networking and following up leads from our marketing. Based in Derbyshire and covering the UK – we want to hear from you!

Basic salary: up to £60,000.

• 25 days holiday
• Company car or car allowance
• Generous and uncapped bonus based on sales performance
• Full access to company benefits scheme after a qualifying period

South Derbyshire. Commutable locations: Derby, Nottingham, Burton on Trent, Loughborough, Leicester, Tamworth, Birmingham, Coventry, Lutterworth, Stoke on Trent, Dudley, Stafford, Rugby, Northampton, Telford, Sheffield, Mansfield.

• Hybrid role: in the office at least a couple of days per week or visiting customers; focus on development of success through our existing and growing distributor/wholesale business.
• Potential to develop new business with major and smaller consumer/professional brands and manufacturers of bespoke own/private-label products.
• Work with R&D to modify and create new product development to custom requirements.
• Investing in internal R&D to generate new products to take to market.
• Specialise in quick-turnaround initial sales to manufacturing.

• Hybrid role split between home office and manufacturing site in South Derbyshire.
• Support and mentor two existing experienced sales professionals.
• Develop sales through existing accounts and following client leads.
• Leverage relationships with businesses to open doors into sister & competitor companies and divergent sectors.
• Follow new leads from marketing, referrals and new website.

• Proven track record of sales, account management and business development success in chemical products (cleaning, hygiene, janitorial, industrial, automotive markets).
• Experience selling through distribution and to end users.
• Skilled at developing existing relationships with key accounts.
• Credible in selling a technical product from a features, benefits, applications perspective.
• Strong, independent and driven sales professional (works to margins, not just turnover) with capacity for strategic business development.
• Able to sell at a variety of levels up to C-suit level meetings – discussing specification of new products.
• Any exposure to own/private label products is an advantage.

Well-established SME with a great reputation and several very big-name clients as a specialist manufacturer of own-label chemical products. Turnover has doubled over the last few years and a new manufacturing site has just been taken on.

There is a genuine path to a Sales Director role within a reasonable time frame and the potential to grow a team as the role and company expand.

We embrace diversity, champion equality and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.