Rexel UK have opportunities for Business Development Managers to support our sales network and collaborate with our branch teams and supporting functions teams.
Are you an experienced sales and business development professional looking to drive profitable growth, gain market share and create future pipeline opportunities within specific segment or product specialism?
We are looking for professional, ambitious and motivated sales professionals who can build existing customer relationships and create and forge new business opportunities.
The Benefits of a Career with Rexel:
- Contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme
- Time Off: 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!)
- You can also buy and sell holiday each year
- Enhanced parental leave
- Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one.
- Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance/Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more!
- Perks: Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education
As a Business Development Manager at Rexel, you will drive profitable growth, gaining market share and creating future pipeline opportunities, within specific segment or product specialism.
This role is pivotal in driving sales, collaborating with branch based teams and creating an exceptional customer relationship and service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Roadmap: Use data driven insights and tools to create a plan to increase market share (within a defined geography/segment/specialist product group) identifying potential and long-term growth opportunities through new offerings, markets, or revenue streams.
- Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a pipeline of customer partnerships
- Customer Partnerships: Create partnerships and strategic relationships with customer (brand/business) for long term future opportunity.
- Value Proposition Development: Create tailored solutions leveraging preferred suppliers to drive innovation and profitability.
- Pricing and Profitability: Govern regional pricing, margins, and contract profitability.
- Market Agility: Adapt strategies based on market and segment changes for long term future growth.
- Multichannel Growth: Promote multichannel adoption to innovate customer propositions.
- Customer Experience: Ensure exceptional customer experience and OTIF through collaboration with internal end to end experts to drive new business and successful implementation.
- Team Development: Upskill internal teams, ensuring clear account ownership and regular reviews to achieve growth targets.
At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles, the behaviours that will set you up for success as a Business Development Manager include:
- COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY – holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
- CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP – Creating new customer partnerships with multi dimensional relationships for strategic insight for future opportunity
- DRIVES RESULTS - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- INFLUENCES- using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others
- BUILDS NETWORKS - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organisation
What we are looking for:
- Commercial expertise (margin, P&L, cost to serve)
- Influencing and Negotiation skills
- Experience within a business development role with proven results.
- Able to make data driven decisions to drive strategic plans and growth opportunities.
- Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to collaborate cross functionally.
- Proven sales experience with the ability to prospect, qualify and close new business.
- Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques.
At Rexel UK, we’re all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results.
By coming together as one team, we’re building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities.
Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.
Skills Required
- Commercial expertise (margin, P&L, cost to serve)
- Influencing and negotiation skills
- Experience within a business development role with proven results
- Ability to make data driven decisions to drive strategic plans and growth
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Proven sales experience including prospecting, qualifying and closing new business
- Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques
- Behaviours: collaboration, accountability, customer partnership, drives results, influences, builds networks
What We Do
Together, we’re delivering the power of a global brand Millions of US electrical customers trust the expertise, resources and relationships of Rexel Holdings USA. As the US presence of one of the world's largest electrical distributors, the Rexel Group, we apply our know-how, productivity tools and hands-on business-building initiatives to help our customers thrive. Always seeking better solutions Rexel USA is the home to many of the leading energy, communications and supply-chain brands in the US. We are continuously seeking new opportunities to add complementary brands to our company and further strengthen our value to customers and shareholders. Our Employees Make a Difference Rexel USA offers a wide range of career opportunities, from entry-level rotational programs to experienced electrical system design. Whether it's through designing alternative energy solutions, upgrading lighting in commercial or municipal buildings or finding new ways to optimize our customer's supply chain, our employees are making a difference in the world of energy solutions. To learn what categories of personal information we collect and the purpose of collection, please review our Applicant Privacy Notice at https://bit.ly/36PslzT
