Business Development Manager - Food pro and Retail - Regional role North England

Business Development Manager Retail and Food Pro�
North England Field Based
The role is to identify sales opportunities, create proposals and maintain a sales pipeline. You will be required to spend a large amount of time prospecting new customers, arranging meetings and demonstrating product solutions. This role requires good communication skills and the ability to solve problems creatively. The� product solutions vary from weighing, slicing, printing together with software management solutions.�
Your tasks

• Creating new sales opportunities and setting up meetings
• Planning and preparing product demonstrations
• Working with the Solutions Team to create proposals
• Communicating solutions to prospective clients
• Preparing quotations and maintaining a pipeline
• Achieving quarterly sales targets
• Enhance the partner network in your region by fostering strong relationships and driving revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities

• To carry out sales activities to meet agreed budgets and timescales.
• Researching food pro and retail outlets and individuals to find new opportunities
• Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings.
• To build knowledge of all key products and their respective value proposition.
• Develop ideas and create offers to attract new customers.
• Respond to and follow up sales enquiries through personal visits.
• Report on activities and provide relevant management information.
• Report on competitor activity and from time to time carry out customer surveys.
• Arrange meetings with key decision makers from target key accounts both with yourself and other relevant Bizerba employees who may assist in influencing the decision-making process.
• Ensure my client is included in every relevant opportunity to tender for supplying the product range.

• Arrange for trials and demonstrations ensuring that these opportunities are always professionally supported by our client
• Liaise and attend meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business and organisational development.
• Contribute to the marketing activities and research associated with identifying new opportunities.
• Attend training and to develop relevant knowledge and skills.
• Attend and participate in relevant industry trade shows

Your profile

• Good�communication skills
• Good at listening
• Understand value propositions and being able to articulate the benefits
• Problem solving and the ability to evaluate options
• Organised, with the ability to self-motivate

The offer
Our client brings together the traditional values of a family-run company and the international career development opportunities of a globally operating group. They are looking forward to developing this further together with you. This is a field based remote position