Business Development Manager

Salary: £34,800 per year

Business Development Manager

Location: Harrogate

Hours: Full-time

Salary: Negotiable, in the region of £34,800 plus commission and bonus:

Company Car, Pension, 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme

Taplanes is the UK’s is the most-trusted modular bathroom manufacturer; at the forefront of offsite, prefabricated bathroom and shower solutions. Based in Yorkshire, we have been in business for over 42 years and operate nationally, with a small number of exports as far afield as Europe, Antarctica and Africa.

Our products are excellent, but it is our people who make the difference. We are a friendly, easy-going company and value all of our employees, so we are determined to ensure that our company is a brilliant place to work and build a career.

We are now looking for a new Business Development Manager to join the team and assist in executing our business growth plan.

The role:

With an excellent team of bathroom architects, designers and a skilled manufacturing team, the company is investing in new product development and manufacturing capacity to support the growth in sales. The business growth focus remains UK-based, increasing our presence in existing sectors and expanding into new markets.

Working within the sales team under the direction of the Head of Business Growth, the Business Development Manager will work alongside the bathroom architects to create new opportunities, meet with prospective new customers and help to grow the business.

We are looking for an individual with an entrepreneurial mindset and great networking skills. We are open as to the what the ideal applicant will look like: you may be an experienced Business Development Manager operating within the construction or manufacturing sector, or you may be someone relatively new to working in a business development role who has a flair for creating new business opportunities and building effective relationships.

In terms of qualifications, we are ideally looking for someone who has a degree or similar qualification, but in reality, the main criteria is to be commercially aware and have great skills at making new friends.

Key tasks:

• Open doors into new markets, build relationships and create opportunities for the Project (Sales) Team.

Requirements

• Some proven experience working within business development and sales, and/or marketing, and managing relationships with customers
• Familiar with working to agreed targets, objectives and KPIs
• Commercial awareness and a strategic mindset
• Outstanding communication (written/oral) and interpersonal abilities
• Business, marketing or engineering/technical degree or vocational qualification is desirable
• Experience of solution-based selling is desirable but not essential
• An understanding of working within a manufacturing business is desirable but not essential
• Experience of working within the construction sector is desirable but not essential
• Have excellent IT literacy and be familiar with using Microsoft Office suite such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

Characteristics

• Have an entrepreneurial spirit, and be resilient and persevering
• Welcoming of challenges and is a good problem solver
• A team player with effective communication & engagement skills with internal stakeholders
• The ability to make friends and gain trust
• Have amazing private investigator skills and ability to sense the market pulse for opportunity
• Has the ultimate stalking skills, whilst of course, having a working moral compass
• Strong commercial sense with a creative-mind to identify new business opportunities

The role will involve regular time spent working within our offices near Harrogate, balanced with time out and about to support the wider business growth team, meeting with prospective customers and partners, networking and creating opportunities to raise the profile of the business, and opening doors for the Project (Sales)Team.

If you are interested, please apply with a CV and a covering letter telling us about yourself and why you are the right person to take on the challenge of growing our business. We also welcome short videos as part of the application process.

Please note, we do not accept applications via agencies.