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Business Development Manager

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Are you based in or around the Southampton area? Do you have experience in sales or account management?

Jewson, leading building materials distributor, is on the hunt for a Business Development Manager who's as passionate about great service as we are.

Location: Jewson, 51 St Annes Rd, Woolston, Southampton SO19 9FH.

Hours : 7:30am - 5pm, Monday to Friday

Job Purpose: To provide day-to-day operational support for large key customers, managing estimates, orders, and deliveries. Acting as the key contact for site teams, this role works across the Branch network to ensure materials are delivered accurately and on time, while building strong relationships, identifying opportunities, and actively supporting the growth of sales across assigned accounts.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify and convert growth opportunities within existing and target accounts.
  • Build and manage a strong sales pipeline.
  • Develop targeted campaigns and customer propositions.
  • Support joint customer visits, quotations and commercial proposals.
  • Use CRM and customer insight to prioritise activity and improve conversion.
  • Build supplier relationships that strengthen the customer offering.

Experience Required:

  • Experience within a sales, account management or customer support role - ideally within builders’ merchant, supplier, or construction-related role.
  • A proactive approach, with the ability to identify opportunities and support sales activity.
  • Self motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Clear and professional communicator across phone, email, and in-person; able to build relationships with customers at all levels, local branches, suppliers and regional support teams.

What’s in it for you?

  • Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) – with Legal & General.
  • Life Assurance - From your first day of employment with us you are automatically covered for a lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x your basic salary. However, if you join the STARK Building Materials Retirement Savings Plan (including if you are automatically enrolled) and contribute a minimum of 4% of your Pensionable Earnings, your lump sum death in service benefit will be increased to 4 x your Pensionable Earnings.
  • WorkPerks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.
  • Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation).
  • Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover.
  • Employee Discount.
  • Refer a Friend scheme.
  • Wellbeing Centre via WorkPerks.

Why STARK?

We're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and join a team that is dedicated to providing great service, we want to hear from you. Apply today!

What's next…

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have.

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Stark Building Materials UK is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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