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Business Development Manager

  1. Permanent - Full time
£competitive plus benefits
  1. BSS
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Monday to Friday

Birmingham; Coventry; Milton Keynes

43878

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Can you build, manage and influence at all levels? Can you demonstrate drive and commitment to achieve business and individual goals? If this is you then you are important to us...BSS are currently seeking a Business Development Manager to join the Intelligent Solutions team. 


Do you have experience in selling to estate teams in the public and private sector? Do you have  knowledge of the mechanical building services industry?

If so then this could be the right role for you…

You will be required to work remotely but also travel to visit prospective customers. 

You will be responsible for developing and growing new business / customers in using the BSS Intelligent Solutions service. You will build and manage a call list of potential customers within agreed segmentations. It will be your responsibility to negotiate and secure contracts with customers for our services. 


As the Business Development Manager you will also project manage and work in partnership with the BSS Technical Engineers on all customer projects, identify other opportunities within the BSS Technical Solutions portfolio and come up with alternative ideas. 


It is important to build effective relationships with colleagues across the BSS group and ensure we maximise all opportunities to what we can offer the customer base as a whole service. 

Core Requirements:

Have a strong, proactive work ethic and good time management, with the ability to work as part of a team and individually to deadlines

Be a collaborative, adaptable and flexible team player who communicates well;- listens, learns, shares knowledge and supports improvement

Be enthusiastic about innovation and technology, with a desire to improve how we work through digital construction.

BSS About Us

About us BSS Industrial - we are a leading distributor of heating, pipeline, process and mechanical services equipment to the Building Services and Industrial sectors. Established over 110 years ago, we became a part of the Travis Perkins Group in 2010 and now have more than 60 BSS branches, along with a National Distribution Centre at Lutterworth in the East Midlands and a National Tube Distribution Centre in Coventry. We have a wealth of experience in our people - technical support, customer care, product engineering and design along with our market leading own brand - BOSS.  A busy and fast paced business with great benefits, and plenty of opportunities for career progression join BSS as a and share our success and good times with a hard-working, friendly bunch of people. 


Why BSS?

The construction and facility management industry is changing and so is BSS, we are expanding our service offering to our customers. We are doing this by building our technical engineering capability and utilising the latest technology embedding it into our day to day business. This has led to the development of the industry leading Design to Use service proposition which aims to answer and resolve many challenges our customers face in this modern world. Essentially taking them from a manual non-digital environment to a fully digitised end to end solution.  


Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.


To keep our business and customers safe, if you are successful in the role you will be made a conditional offer subject to additional background checks.


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