Business Development Manager (Fire Industry)

Carrier Fire & Security EMEA is seeking a Business Development Manager to support their UK & Ireland Portable Fire Extinguisher business, TG Products. The purpose of the role is to grow and develop business with large distributors and service companies across UK & Ireland. We are ideally seeking someone who lives in the Southern half of the UK. As a Business Development Manager you'll be responsible for:

• Pro-actively identifying new and different business opportunities to provide increased sales.
• Identifying opportunities within the current customer portfolio and maximising sales.
• Staying up to date with all industry trends, issues, and news specific to UK & Ireland.
• Further expanding with implementation of customer relationship management within the region to drive collaboration and pipeline.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with product and marketing teams to ensure current and future sales opportunities are maximized.
• Ensuring strong internal communication to all departments to support understanding of the accounts, listings, and pricing, etc. Researching consumer needs and identifying how our solutions meet them.
• Achieving company objectives through effective planning, setting sales goals, analysing performance data, and projecting future performance.
• Developing a close consistent relation with all key customers.
• Tracking, analysing, and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends as they relate to partner relationships.
  
  Previous experience in a Business Development role or similar, ideally within the fire industry is preferred
• Good understanding of fire Extinguisher Regulations and servicing standards.
• Engineering, Technical, Sales
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills and the ability to build strategic relationships within and outside the company.
• Strong customer-oriented focus and value selling skills, able to drive from products and features towards opportunities and benefits.
• Self-motivated with good planning skills.
• Selling and business acumen.
• Clear strategic mindset with analytical focus
• Ability to travel at least 60% of the time.
  
  Competitive salary + 25% SIP
• Company car or car allowance
• Credit card, laptop, mobile.
• 25 days of holidays plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Possibility to develop your career in our company's structure
Our commitment to you Our greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and retains the best talent, promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. We strive to create an environment where you feel that you belong, with diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation. We develop and deploy best-in-class programs and practices, providing enriching career opportunities, listening to employee feedback and always challenging ourselves to do better. This is The Carrier Way.