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Business Development Manager

Low Fell & Chowdene
4 days ago
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Northern Balance have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join the team. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary.

About us

At Northern Balance, we're experts in providing bespoke weighing solutions and consultancy to help customers weigh with confidence. With over 150 years’ collective weighing expertise, we’ve helped thousands of customers in industries including Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage and Public Sector to optimise compliance, productivity and performance. Our success is underpinned by our people - their focus on quality, their technical knowledge and total dedication to customer excellence which continues to be the bedrock of our nationwide growth story.

About the Business Development Manager role:

We’re on the lookout for a customer-focused individual with a strategic and problem-solving mindset to help drive our growth. If you have a strong passion for understanding customer needs and can effectively leverage technical expertise with a collaborative, consultative approach to building, nurturing and converting a pipeline then please get in touch.

As our Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for:

Manage the full sales cycle including prospecting, lead generation, qualifying, objection handling, relationship management, and closing to increase customer value and drive nationwide customer acquisition.

Build and maintain a robust sales pipeline and deliver sales forecasts to senior management to identify opportunities for growth.

Work collaboratively with the Marketing Manager to identify strategies and tactics to generate and nurture leads from the new and existing base.

Pro-actively seek out customer and market insights to identify opportunities, adjusting tactics where necessary while maximising profitability.

Become a trusted advisor to existing and prospective customers by sharing expertise and via account management excellence.

The successful Business Development Manager will have the following:

Essential

5+ years of B2B business development experience within a service-led business.

Demonstrated experience executing the full sales cycle with pipeline management and reporting via a CRM.

Friendly and approachable with a consultative and partnership approach to finding solutions for existing and prospective customers.

Team approach to collaborating with key stakeholders including Marketing and Service teams.

Highly articulate both in writing and verbally with a natural strength in engaging and guiding decision makers.

Autonomous, determined and resilient with the ability to remain focused on delivering against growth objectives.

Full, clean UK driving licence.

Desirable

Experience working with customers in highly regulated or quality focused industries including but not limited to Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Food and Beverages and Chemicals (desirable but not essential).

A good understanding of metrology as a compliance solution.

Familiarity with HubSpot or other similar CRMs for pipeline management and reporting.

What we offer

In return, we offer a comprehensive package, which includes a competitive salary, commission, Company car, 25 days’ holiday (increasing with service), pension scheme, plus healthcare and retail perks!

Northern Balance is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Please click ‘apply’ today to become our Business Development Manager – we would love to hear from you

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