Business Development Manager – South West – Puma Teamwear

Background

Puma Teamwear, based in Manchester, UK, is committed to taking a leadership position in the supply of Teamwear in identified European markets from the top level of sport through to grass roots.

As a PUMA Group Company with 100% focus on Teamwear, this is a unique opportunity to join an ambitious team of highly entrepreneurial, hardworking people with a passion for football.

The Role

Field role, based from home, to develop and manage sales of football Teamwear to Semi-Professional and Amateur Football Clubs.

To manage all aspects of the sales process including:

 Lead generation.

• Achieving sales targets.
• Servicing accounts.
• Retaining and developing key accounts.
• Ensuring payments are up to date.

Competitive salary based on experience plus commission scheme, car, mobile phone and laptop.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for the Customer Relationship including:

• Achieving annual sales target.
• Achieving annual profit margin target.
• Pro-actively targeting new business – working closely with the Marketing Department.
• Managing effective communication from the business to the customer.
• Working closely with Customer Service and Finance Teams to ensure the smooth processing of orders.

Customer liaison; managing day to day relationship with customer in an efficient and time effective manner, ensuring customers fully understand the constraints of the business and managing expectations accordingly (lead times, design requirements, use of web order tool etc.).

Inter-department liaison; ensuring the business has an understanding of customer requirements.

Using Salesforce to maximize personal effectiveness and keep the business updated with key account information.

Qualifications & Skills

• The ability to demonstrate knowledge and passion of football at all levels in the South West region.
• The successful candidate will have significant sales experience within a field sales role, ideally football teamwear.
• Possess a proven ability to work within a changing and fast paced environment.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the customer’s perspective of the sales process.
• Demonstrate an ability to be a proactive and solutions driven individual who is able to manage their own workload and time to get the job done.
• Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to liaise at all levels.
• A highly self-motivated team player with great enthusiasm and energy who is able to thrive in a result driven environment.
• PC literate with strong skills in Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint software.
• Driving license essential.

How to Apply

To apply, the candidates should send the following:

• Letter of application highlighting relevant experience
• Up to date curriculum vitae
• Details of current remuneration

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