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Job Title: Business Development Manager, Product Certification
Reports to: Regional Product Certification Commercial Director
Location: UK
Travel: 20%-30% of working time, predominantly national, and mainly based in Northern England, Scotland and Ireland
Language requirements: Excellent English language skills, both written and verbal.
BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy
Purpose of the role:
The role of Business Development Manager (BDM) focusses on selling BSI Product Certification and Product Testing services to clients in the Built Environment sector.
This role is responsible for identifying and managing sales opportunities, building relationships with clients to understand their business needs and drivers, and positioning BSI as a supplier of Product Certification services to clients looking to export their products into regions that recognise BSI certifications.
The successful candidate will have:
- A strong proven track record of successful business to business new sales experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly and succinctly.
- Excellent sales, negotiation and presentation skills.
- A background in either Testing Inspection & Certification; the built environment; or an engineering technical background.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
- Proactively network with existing customers.
- Within territory, identify and proactively pursue new prospects to grow the customer base through targeted contacts, trade shows, and client visits to generate sales revenue in line with targets.
- Work closely with the Global BSI delivery teams to plan relevant resource required to meet customer expectation.
- Produce accurate sales forecasts and reports of activities undertaken, record sales and order information.
- Remain up to date with BSI’s certification processes and related regulations where appropriate, and be able to communicate these to customers.
- Apply knowledge of competitors to identify business advantages of BSI products.
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We offer a highly competitive salary with 27 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 32 days, company-paid private medical insurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.
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BSI is committed to ensuring the diversity of our workforce reflects that of our clients and the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to create a sense of belonging for all employees by providing opportunities to develop, grow, and engage with our global organization all while having fun doing great work. BSI is a community where everyone can thrive.
If you require any reasonable accommodations to be made on account of a disability or impairment throughout out our recruiting process, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner.
Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.
BSI is conducting face-to-face interviews where appropriate and possible. If you are invited to a face-to-face interview but feel more comfortable with conducting the interview virtually, please speak to a member of our recruitment team.
