Business Development Manager - #2126237

Are you a driven sales professional with a passion for business development and a proven track record within the PPE sector? Do you thrive on opening new opportunities, building strong customer relationships, and driving category growth?

Milwaukee UK is investing heavily in the future of PPE & Workwear, and we're looking for two talented Business Development Managers to play a pivotal role in our growth journey. This is a rare opportunity to join a globally recognised brand at an exciting stage of expansion, where you'll have the freedom to develop new business opportunities, shape your territory strategy, and directly influence the success of a key product category.

This role will be responsible for driving growth across the Northern UK territory.

As part of working for TTi, we offer many exciting benefits! It’s our people that are crucial to the success of our business and therefore we offer a vast range of comprehensive benefits to our team.

• A company vehicle & fuel card
• A hotel card for business use (when required)
• Lunch allowance when travelling
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Group Life Assurance Benefits
• Annual Gym Allowance
• Discounted Milwaukee and Ryobi products
• Access to our TTi Benefits Hub which includes discounts with many high street retailers

As well as the above benefits, the wellbeing of our employees is of utmost importance to us and we offer an Employee Assistance Programme, giving employees access to a confidential helpline 24/7.

Key Responsibilities:

• The ability to work under your own initiative to co-ordinate and implement the Milwaukee growth strategy, focusing on planned pricing structure and sales growth.

• Identify potential prospect customers within the defined sector and develop a strategy to penetrate and maintain pipeline growth.

• Key utilization of strategic product range development and promotional planning.

• Maintain the annual business plans down to the account level in line with the business unit strategy.

• Maximize turnover and profitability to achieve overall business unit targets.

• Provide effective forecasting figures across the range to your line manager with monthly turnover estimates in line with target and budget expectations.

• Effective communication in keeping the internal stakeholders such as management, finance, logistics, marketing, product development and customer services up to date with key developments in accounts and regular market intelligence

• Ability to explore alternative distribution channels to further grow the PPE and Workwear business unit and drive our products within the UK.

• To carry out other ad hoc responsibilities as requested by the Line Manager from time to time.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Must have a minimum of 2 years working within the PPE sector with a proven track record in business development achieving targets with strong emphasis on end user/commercial sales.

• An understanding of the Milwaukee product market and ability to build that knowledge into business objectives to help achieve growth.

• Relevant Sales and Marketing Qualification desirable

• Relevant BSIF Qualification desirable

• Strong selling and negotiation skills to help build business relations and to further grow/strengthen these to develop market share and profitability

• Passion and enthusiasm for the Milwaukee brand

• Ability to work closely with colleagues to achieve personal, team and company targets

• Sound product knowledge and commitment to excellent customer service

• Good communication skills, both written and oral

• Strong planning and territory development skills

• Good IT skills (mainly PowerPoint, Excel and Word) to analyse and report data to the management team to aid with territory evaluations and to create appropriate presentations for customers in the marketplace.

• Monitor and report on market and competitor activities

• Attend trade shows, exhibitions, corporate and key trade association events

• Effective time management skills with ability to work with minimal supervision

• UK travel and occasional European travel will be required

• Full UK Driving Licence