Business Development Manager – Bristol

Europa Worldwide Group is an ambitious independent logistics operator with three divisions, Europa Road, Europa Air & Sea, and Europa Warehouse. Europa Worldwide Group has been featured in The Sunday Times Top Track for three years. With 15 sales offices in the UK and Ireland, Europa also has offices in Europe and international sites including Hong Kong, China, India, and Dubai.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced sales-driven and entrepreneurial individual to build your own ‘mini’ business and progress within a growing company.

As a Business Development Manager, your main responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining your customer base within your allocated area/location.
• Sourcing sales leads using the company’s in-house CMS or other sources of information.
• Making telesales calls (outbound) to potential clients to profile and qualify the prospect, using your knowledge of the Europa product portfolio.
• Visiting potential customers and preparing quotations for presentation to the customer.
• For the first 12 months, managing the accounts in your business base by maintaining and developing the levels of business within that client base, ideally with the aim of becoming the sole supplier.
• Making regular contact with your customers pro-actively to ensure that we are satisfying the needs of the customer and with a mind to developing further business opportunities from within that account.
• After 12 months, focusing exclusively on selling within existing customers and closing new customers to hand over to a customer service team.

What we offer in return:

• Uncapped commission scheme
• Training and career development
• Company car or car allowance, laptop, and phone
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• A fantastic working culture which promotes excellent work/life balance.
• The opportunity to develop, progress and work within a global organisation which is rapidly growing.
• Europa benefits scheme (on successful completion of probation period)
• Contributory company pension scheme
• Working closely with a team of talented individuals with a great work ethic who also love to have fun!

What you will bring to the role as a Business Development Manager:

• A strong, confident, and resilient personality
• Must have a full, clean UK driving license.
• Freight sales experience desired
• Passionate about sales and customer service.
• The ability to work well and thrive under pressure, within a targeted environment.
• Have fantastic communication skills both written and verbal
• Be eager to learn, develop and excel in your career within sales.

Please note – if you submit your CV, you are giving Europa Worldwide Group Ltd, and its subsidiaries consent to hold your personal data. All applications will be dealt with according to General Data Protection Regulations.

Europa Worldwide Group are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note that an offer of employment is subject to the completion of satisfactory pre-employment checks.