Description:
As a Business Developer, you will play a pivotal role in building relationships with new and existing customers, using telephone sales techniques to generate business and encourage new leads.
Your Key Responsibilities Will Include
- Provide potential and existing customers with the highest level of customer service and support the wider sales team in generating and chasing leads.
- Focus on effective customer account management, aiming to increase the company’s customer base and develop long term collaborative relationships within the building trade.
- Maintain up to date product and industry knowledge
- Use creative marketing materials to promote Howdens products, depot events and sales periods to new and existing customers
- Keep in touch with both depots lead banks regularly via the telephone and using our customer engagement messaging tool
- Develop long term collaborative relationships with customers
- Proactively gain new accounts, repeat business, and generate qualified leads for the team through outgoing sales calls
- Process sales for customers using the in store payment systems, quoting correct pricing, delivery date and stock requirements.
Requirements
We are looking for people with the following qualities who want to learn new skills in a Depot environment:
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to build strong relationships
- Good customer service skills
- Target driven
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- Effective planning and organising abilities
- Capability to prioritise and manage own workload effectively
- A strong desire for continuous personal and professional development.
- The right to work in the UK and related evidence