business development jobs
Working for either a manufacturer selling products or for a contractor selling services, business development jobs cover all company sales, estimating, quoting and sales targets and their achievement. They take responsibility for the establishment of targets and their achievement for all commercial and financial activities to ensure the company and client needs are met or exceeded at all times.
In a manufacturing capacity, you will be expected to:
- Develop, maintain and build sales from the UK construction industry
- Find business leads through industry contacts and market awareness
- Identify new business accounts; negotiating and converting these accounts to customers
- Work with and developing current sales strategy
Commission based sales jobs
For a contractor, you will need to:
- Work with the estimating team on tenders and new project opportunities
- Develop relationships with main contractors to win business
- Build relationships with clients for business leads.
To succeed in business development jobs, you need to be target driven and customer focused. Your communications skills need to be sharp as you will be regularly involved in meetings and negotiation. Typical entrants typically come from project management background (knowledge of project execution), experience in manufacturing (product knowledge), or prior sales experience. Business development jobs are commission based with a company car provided.
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