Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager
Location: Greater Glasgow
Employment Type: Full-Time

Our client is looking for a driven Business Development Manager to join their team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to increase sales, liaise with customers and aim to maintain / increase current market share.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Provide customers with technical help or information when required
• To carry out duties in a pro-active and professional manner.
• To build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers.
• Provide customer with a single point of contact for any questions/queries
• To monitor and be familiar with competitor activity and new products.
• To keep Sales Director informed of all competitor activity and projects as well as provide information regarding area pricing trends.
• To liaise with internal sales staff.
• Price enquiries in line with company policy and current market trends.
• Price tenders as directed from Sales Director.
• Monitor deliveries on a daily basis
• Deal with Customer Complaints/Invoice queries
• Ensure product knowledge is kept up to date within an ever-changing environment of new admixtures, cements and cement replacements.
• Promote new plants/products as they become available.
• Entertain customers in line with company policy & where appropriate.
• Inform credit control of any information pertinent to customer’s credit activity.
• Liaise with Distribution, production and transport regarding large pours, out of hours working etc
• Carry out ongoing “area sweeps” to identify work that we have previously been unaware of.

What We’re Looking For:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Good negotiating skills.

• Excellent Time Management skills.
• To be able to discuss and resolve technical details / problems.
• Good product knowledge.
• Computer literacy.
• To be well presented at all times
• Driving licence/ability to travel to company/customer sites as and when required
• Competitor and Market Awareness.

Interested?

Contact Gregor Linn at Eden Scott on 0141 410 1015 or email your CV to gregor.linn@edenscott.com for a confidential discussion.