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Business Development Executive - North

£competitive plus benefits

Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Are you a sales driven professional with strong commercial acumen? Are you looking to make that next step up and join one of the UK’s largest organisations? 

What you’ll do

We have an exciting opportunity for someone with proven customer-facing sales experience to join Travis Perkins Managed Services team as a Business Development Executive covering the North region. Our Managed Services team provides solutions for Local Authorities and Housing Associations across the country and we’re looking to expand the same solutions to the sub contractor market sector.. We are now seeking an individual who will have responsibility for identifying and building a solution for the contractor market who are working for LA’s/HA’s This is a home based/regional role but you’ll be responsible for driving new business and scoping propositions in the North of England and Scotland. 

Managed Services are continuing to grow year on year, and we’re looking for a dynamic person to join us and help to drive this new exciting journey forward!

What you’ll do
- Identify appropriate outsourcing opportunities from the affordable housing market place and other sectors
- Act as the key contact with clients to help contractors retain and secure future business
- Build solid relationships both internally and externally 
- Review TP Group resources and from this lead a Group strategy to ensure clients outsource their stores in TP’s favour
- Lead the facilitation and completion of all proposals, presentations if appropriate
- Work closely with TP Group Regional Director’s to ensure successful contractor rollout across their territories Work as needed with TPMS staff to ensure a smooth project start, and ensure all information is logged and passed to the relevant stakeholders
- Perform any other tasks related to the successful performance of TPMS contractor market to gain market share

Is this you?

- Experience operating successfully in a customer facing role 
- Ability to identify ‘outsourcing’ opportunities
- Excellent customer sales skills
- Good presentation skills 
- Strong negotiator 

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive performance related bonus
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; 20% off at Wickes and 30% off at Tile Giant, plus special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

A bit about us - Managed Services 

We are a leading UK supply chain and procurement solutions provider to the repairs and maintenance sector, delivering efficiency through quality, at an affordable price. Established by Travis Perkins in 2004 Travis Perkins Managed Services was created to support the renewal and regeneration of the UK’s social housing stock.

We quickly grew to be the largest specialist team dedicated to the repairs and maintenance industry. With the right resources and experience in place we developed our offer to meet the needs and priorities of landlords across the nation. We now have partnerships in social housing, facilities management and Defence and now seeking to extend this further to the sub contractor market

If you have the desire to be part of our team we would love to hear from you!




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