Business Development Manager - Foodservice
Location: North East
Salary: 50,000 basic + uncapped commission + car benefit
Working: Remote / Hybrid
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity for an ambitious Business Development Manager to join a leading UK foodservice wholesaler and play a key role in driving new business growth across the North East.
This is a high-profile, commercially focused role where you'll be responsible for identifying, winning and developing new foodservice customers, with a particular focus on multi-site operators across hospitality, leisure, healthcare, education and contract catering.
What You’ll Do
- Identify, prospect and win new foodservice customers across the North East.
- Build strong, long-term relationships with senior decision-makers and key customers.
- Own and develop a robust new business pipeline, forecasting opportunities and delivering against sales and margin targets.
- Create targeted business development plans for new sectors and geographical markets.
- Develop compelling commercial proposals tailored to customer requirements.
- Lead negotiations around pricing, contracts and commercial terms.
- Work closely with Buying, Sales, Marketing and Operations to create customer solutions and unlock growth.
- Monitor competitor activity and identify market opportunities and threats.Lead the development of tender submissions and framework opportunities, working closely with the Bid team.
About You
We're looking for a proven B2B Sales / Business Development professional with strong experience in foodservice, wholesale or a related sector.
You’ll be:
- Commercially driven, ambitious and results focused.
- A confident new business hunter with a proven ability to win and convert opportunities.
- Highly customer-focused with excellent relationship-building and influencing skills.
- Comfortable working with sales data, pipelines and commercial performance metrics.
- Experienced in tenders, contracts and/or framework agreements.
- Strategic enough to identify new markets, but hands-on enough to make things happen.
- A strong communicator and negotiator who can engage confidently with senior stakeholders.
- Based ideally in the Newcastle / North East area, with the flexibility to cover the wider region.
What’s on Offer?
- 50,000 basic salary
- Uncapped commission - genuine opportunity to maximise earnings
- Car benefit
- Remote / hybrid working
- High-profile role with significant ownership of new business growth
- Opportunity to develop relationships with major multi-site foodservice operators
- Supportive, commercially focused leadership team
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you’re an ambitious BDM who thrives on winning new business, opening doors and turning opportunities into long-term commercial partnerships, this is an excellent opportunity to make your mark across the North East foodservice market.
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