Love opening doors, winning new customers and turning opportunities into sales?
About the Job
- Drive new business across the UK, identifying new customers, sectors and applications for specialist manufactured products.
- Generate opportunities through cold calling, targeted outreach, networking and face-to-face meetings.
- Take ownership of the full sales process, from first conversation through quotations, negotiation and securing the order.
- Create your own mailers and targeted campaigns using HubSpot, taking a hands-on approach without a dedicated marketing team.
- Work closely with technical and production colleagues to understand customer requirements and develop solutions.
- Build a strong pipeline, keep HubSpot updated and deliver profitable sales growth.
- Combine time at the Rochdale office with customer visits and travel throughout the UK.
About You
- A proven new business winner with B2B sales experience in a manufacturing environment.
- A hunter mentality — you enjoy finding opportunities, making the first approach and winning business.
- You’ll have a background in manufacturing, technical products, textiles, chemicals or engineering.
- Confident picking up the phone, reaching decision-makers and turning cold introductions into meaningful conversations.
- Ambitious, focused and persistent, with the energy to keep opportunities moving.
- Comfortable creating your own sales campaigns and using CRM tools to organise your activity.
- Commercially aware, with strong negotiation skills and a track record of achieving sales targets.
- Curious about technical products and confident working with procurement, engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Self-motivated and hands-on, with the initiative to make things happen.
What You Get
- Base salary £45-50k negotiable DOE
- Company car
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Health cash benefits
Ready to make an impact and build new business?
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