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Category Sales Development Manager

  1. Permanent - Full time
£Competitive + Benefits
  1. Travis Perkins
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Monday - Friday

Coventry; Milton Keynes; Northampton

43173

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Category Sales Development Manager

Keen to develop your sales and proposal experience? Want to expand your knowledge of Plumbing, heating and sanitary ware? Eager to utilise your negotiation skills?

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced business development Manager within sanitary ware to push forward and develop their career with exposure to both business development and category management. Working on high value projects with our regional house builders team.

Location: Hybrid working with time in the head office (Northampton)

What you’ll do

  • Provided quotations and designs for our regional sales teams for plumbing, heating, bathrooms and renewables enquiries based on contractor drawings, specifications and bill of quantities

  • Engage with suppliers to understand product and negotiate best pricing for individual projects

  • Attend meetings with our customers and members of the regional sales teams to answer any category specific enquiries 

  • Working closely with the commercial category team on ranging/supplier strategy and streamlining processes based on feedback from the regional sales teams

  • End to end management of projects from quotation, coordination with branches to process orders and maximising conversion of quotes to sales

Is this you?

  • Able to build relationships with Suppliers, Internal and external stakeholders

  • Confident in your attention to detail

  • Enjoy learning about new technologies especially sustainable products


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 




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.

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