Business Development Manager
09526
Posted: 31/07/2025
- £40000 - £60000
- Heathrow
- Permanent
We are working with a medium sized forwarder who have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager.
Reporting to the UK Sales Director, Business Development Manager is responsible for managing Business Development for all Industry Verticals within a designated territory. They are responsible for promoting a portfolio of products which are included within the freight forwarding and logistics industry targeting and building a pipeline based around new business opportunities within the branch network.
Role Involves:
· Seek a variety of new business opportunities within all industry Verticals.
· Generate and qualify new business opportunities.
· Ensure sales activity and process are in line with GDP diligence and compliance.
· Provide first class customer service to deliver on customer solutions.
· Implement sales strategies to develop short term and long-term target accounts.
· Meet and exceed company standards expectations in relation to call rate and pipeline expectations.
· Ensure new business sales targets including revenue and gross profit are exceeded.
· Complete daily reporting on the Customer Relationship Management Systems and providing data to support sales activity.
· Work collaboratively across the business to maximize sales opportunities.
· Deliver on client satisfaction and service excellence.
· Work with telesales team and marketing team to identify and interpret trends and opportunities to constantly deliver success.
Experience required.
· Sound experience with a successful track record of Business Development within the freight forwarding and logistics service.
· Competent to liaise at Customer board level.
· Sound experience of generating new business opportunities and relationship management.
· Demonstrable success in achieving and exceeding new business sales targets.
· Experience of reporting processes.
· Experience of implementing new ideas and solutions to drive results of sales function.
· Sound experience of negotiating skills and firm understanding of the sales cycle.
· Good presentation skills.
· Excellent negotiation skills.
· Result driven and outcome focused.
· Computer Literate including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Monday to Friday
Salary depends on experience.
Car allowance and commission which will be discussed at interview.
Please forward CVs to sue.stone@firstchoiceuk.com
· If you have not heard from us within 7 days then your application has been unsuccessful.
Reporting to the UK Sales Director, Business Development Manager is responsible for managing Business Development for all Industry Verticals within a designated territory. They are responsible for promoting a portfolio of products which are included within the freight forwarding and logistics industry targeting and building a pipeline based around new business opportunities within the branch network.
Role Involves:
· Seek a variety of new business opportunities within all industry Verticals.
· Generate and qualify new business opportunities.
· Ensure sales activity and process are in line with GDP diligence and compliance.
· Provide first class customer service to deliver on customer solutions.
· Implement sales strategies to develop short term and long-term target accounts.
· Meet and exceed company standards expectations in relation to call rate and pipeline expectations.
· Ensure new business sales targets including revenue and gross profit are exceeded.
· Complete daily reporting on the Customer Relationship Management Systems and providing data to support sales activity.
· Work collaboratively across the business to maximize sales opportunities.
· Deliver on client satisfaction and service excellence.
· Work with telesales team and marketing team to identify and interpret trends and opportunities to constantly deliver success.
Experience required.
· Sound experience with a successful track record of Business Development within the freight forwarding and logistics service.
· Competent to liaise at Customer board level.
· Sound experience of generating new business opportunities and relationship management.
· Demonstrable success in achieving and exceeding new business sales targets.
· Experience of reporting processes.
· Experience of implementing new ideas and solutions to drive results of sales function.
· Sound experience of negotiating skills and firm understanding of the sales cycle.
· Good presentation skills.
· Excellent negotiation skills.
· Result driven and outcome focused.
· Computer Literate including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Monday to Friday
Salary depends on experience.
Car allowance and commission which will be discussed at interview.
Please forward CVs to sue.stone@firstchoiceuk.com
· If you have not heard from us within 7 days then your application has been unsuccessful.
Sue Stone
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Heathrow