About the Role
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri"><strong>Business Development Manager – Freight</strong> – £30K – £45K – South</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri"><strong>Business Development Manager </strong>required for a Sunday Times top 250, family owned Logistics company that recently celebrated their 250th year. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">The Freight Forwarder have multiple UK sites – this role will be based from their specialist London Air Cargo facility in Heathrow and will cover the South up to London – Hampshire and Surrey </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">This <strong>Business Development Manager</strong><strong> </strong>role would suit a talented freight sales professional with a solid grounding in <strong>Air Freight</strong> operations or <strong>Air Freight internal sales</strong> looking for a step into external sales.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">All modes of freight considered – Attitude and hunger is everything ! </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">You manage your own diary, day and week !</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri"><span style="text-decoration: underline">The Package :</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">£30K – 50K</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Uncapped bonus</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Car Allowance</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Mobile phone</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Medical Insurance</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Pension scheme – contributory aſter 1 year service.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">28 days holiday including bank holidays (increases annually)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">The Role:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">To develop and maintain effective business relationships with new and existing clients.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">To undertake presentations for long-term business, produce and present tenders and quotatons for business.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">To offer a high standard of customer service to internal and external customers, by demonstrating a professional, helpful and positive manner.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">To generate and follow up sales leads, visiting potential and existing customers to obtain new business at reasonable profit.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">To build and maintain effective business relationships with overseas correspondents, exchanging information, undertaking joint business and supporting sales visits to and from them in order to develop sales.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Provide accurate information to internal operations staff in order that all relevant administration can be completed efficiently.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Work with Line Managers to promote specific markets and generate business, through a co-ordinated programme of targeted joint calls.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Responsible for current developments in the market and information on competitors.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Responsible for using the sales system to record all required information and for ensuring that all</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">documentation, records and systems are accurate.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Requirements:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Freight Forwarding sales experience – internal or external</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri">Business 2 Business experience</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height: 107%;font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;font-family: Calibri"><strong>Strong Operational background in Freight and the desire for sales also considered.</strong></span></p>
<p>WR Logistics are the #1 recruitment partner for all vacancies in the logistics industry. We recruit in the UK & USA for permanent jobs.</p>
<p>WR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.</p>
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<p class="job_tags">Tagged as: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, freight, sales</p>