Business Development Manager in Sheffield

The Cosentino team is looking for a Retail Sales Manager to cover Sheffield. You will be responsible for our strategy and relationship with our clients, ensuring the sales and promotion of our Cosentino products. Acquiring new and maintaining current customers will be part of your responsibilities, as well as understanding what they are looking for in order to achieve their short-and long-term expectations to ensure delivery of the best of our services, generating demand through appropriate care and service to the different sales channels for the company. Knowledge of the kitchen and the stone industry is desirable. A willingness to work with K&B stores, Fabricators, and interior designers to generate leads is essential.

As a Retail Sales Manager, you will serve as our client’s main point of contact, helping them to reach their goals and ensuring a continued, positive, and profitable relationship for both sides. To be a successful Account Manager with us, you will work with different segments:

• Sales: Develop and maintain current product knowledge to present to customers. Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients within the remodeling, home improvement, cabinet makers, builders, and fabrication. Responsible for overall sales of the assigned territory.
• Customer Service: Ensure customers have adequate marketing materials to support sales, including samples, brochures, and other collateral supplies, such as display towers. Manage customer relationships by resolving client concerns, ensuring customers are set up in the CRM System, providing price quotes, scheduling weekly visits, etc. Increase market share by elevating the number of displays and point-of-purchase materials within assigned territory.
• Business Intelligence: Prepare action plans to identify specific targets and to project the number of contacts to be made. Collaborate with Cosentino Corporate staff, Cosentino Center staff, and other Account Managers as needed to accomplish goals. Work with General Manager and Sales Team to execute business strategy for all customer segments in the area (home centers, K&B, Fabricators, etc.).

What you need to succeed:

• Professional Experience: 3+ years of sales or field merchandising experience. 2+ years of proven capacity to interact with multiple levels within all faces with commercial industry projects.
• Knowledge: Experience with Customer database, Salesforce preferred. Stone fabrication or distribution experience.

What we do offer: You will join a company with an international mindset and presence in 100+ countries, with an amazing growth story, sustained by extraordinary innovation with products such as Silestone®, Dekton®, and Sensa by Cosentino®. In which you will be able to demonstrate your great sales skills and grow your career in a challenging project. Company car + sales bonus included + Health insurance.

At COSENTINO, our purpose is to inspire People through innovative and sustainable spaces. We are the world-leading producer of architectural and decorative surfaces. Our products are designed to provide innovative and functional solutions for either home and business spaces, such as Kitchen and Baths worktops, outdoor open spaces, facades, etc. Innovation, sustainability, functionality, and beauty describe our value proposition to the different market stakeholders and end Clients.

Cosentino is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Cosentino is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.