Our client:
- A leading supplier of non-food products across multiple categories including home, gift, licensed products and home decor
- Have a diverse portfolio of design-led products, a number of key licenses in the market and well renowned by consumers both in the UK and globally
- Operate as a family run business with a close-knit, autonomous culture. Allows for entrepreneurialism
- Deal with major UK and international retailers across multiple channels including online retail, high street, garden centre groups and independents
- Culture is open, friendly and hardworking
- Opportunity to join the team as Export Business Development Manager within the international sales part of the business
The role:
- Export Business Development Manager driving and developing new business across multiple countries
- Work within the international sales team, reporting into Head of Export Sales
- This is a great opportunity to help drive and develop sales across Europe & Rest of World
- Done predominantly on a direct to retail basis with vast opportunity globally
- This is a new business led role, must have tenacity and ability to develop new relationships
- Working on strategies and presentations to target and win new accounts.
- Maximise sales through educating customers on the brand and company history
- Use company showroom, all catalogues to showcase products and licenses. Attend all industry trade shows
Ideal candidate:
- Experience of driving and developing new business from scratch, ability to build new customer relationships
- You may have experience in export sales' but this is not essential, we are open to UK sales experience with transferable skills
- Worked in a product driven business, ideally within a non-food category but other closely aligned industry experience will be considered
- Enjoy new business development and a challenge
- Be personable, likeable, tenacious and a great relationship builder
- Self-motivated, have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Be North-West based and able to commute to a Lancashire based office
Benefits & details:
- Up to £40,000 basic salary
- Bonus and wider company benefits
- Lancashire based head office
Please send your CV using the form on this page, quoting reference 2/17132/7. Confidentiality assured.
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