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Role: Business Unit Manager
Location: West London
Sector: Building / Construction Supplies
Package: £48,000 - £53,000 + Bonus (up to 30%) + Company Car
With a network of branches our client distributes a wide range of products into the construction sector.
They are currently looking to recruit an experienced Business Unit Manager to oversee the development of a key product division, based from their distribution centre in West London.
Key responsibilities:
Reporting to the General Manager, the Business Manager will be responsible for the following areas:
- To achieve and maintain sales and margin targets
- To maintain and develop trading with target accounts, both new and existing, within the agreed sectors
- Develop sales by pricing and negotiating competitively for work, making best use of trade leads, project-tracking information, and local knowledge
- Promotion of new products to existing and target client base
- Plan sales activities effectively and efficiently using project-tracking, and trade leads
- Plan product promotions with suppliers to achieve branch targets
- To report commercial activities, maintaining customer records, reporting and monitoring progress towards agreed objectives
- Lead, manage and motivate employees including employee training needs
- Conduct regular team meetings
- Maintain up-to-date product knowledge in liaison with suppliers and undertake training where necessary
Key attributes:
- Customer focused
- Strong communication and negotiation
- Results focused
- Relationship builder
- Detail conscious
- Personable
- Commercially astute
Skills:
- Sales
- Customer service and people management experience
- Numerate
- Literate
- IT knowledge (MS office)
Package:
- Starting basic of up to £53,000 (negotiable dependent upon experience)
- Company car
- Fantastic bonus scheme of up to 30% of salary
- Company pension contributions & life assurance plan
- Generous holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays
If your currently working as a Sales Manager, Branch Manager or Senior Operations Manager within the building supply / merchant sector, with experience of managing annual budgets of £5-10m, and would like more information, please apply online, and we'll be in touch to discuss further.
