Business Development Manager - PPE

Business Development Manager – PPE

Location – we have 3 roles covering Central/South/North

We have an exciting opportunity here at RS for ambitious individual’s to join our award-winning innovative company as a Business Development Manager. This is a new role that will sit within our Safety Solutions business who are experiencing a period of growth currently.

RS are a company who strive to continuously improve, and we recognise that world-class Sales teams need best in class equipment, processes, and systems. As such we provide world-class working conditions, removing distractions and enabling you to focus on what’s important. In this digital age, technology, and commercial thinking changes rapidly. We continue to develop ours and want you to be part of that evolution.

This is your opportunity to be a part of an open, diverse, and truly world-class sales team!

A little about what you will be doing in this position…

• You will be liaising with senior contacts to secure new business wins
• Identifying a portfolio of New Business Targets
• Managing a regional territory and mapping effectively within that region and industry space
• Research target sectors, and product ranges with the objective of adding new opportunities to the pipeline
• Working seamlessly with colleagues and suppliers to best support the role

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

• Proven track record in delivering significant new business wins, over a sustained period, ideally in a similar environment
• Strong knowledge of the PPE market and product ranges
• Experience of delivering on an ambitious target and demonstration of pipeline execution
• Understanding and use of negotiation skills
• To manage onboarding of new wins liaising with all relevant partners within the business to ensure a smooth transition
• To manage a seamless transition when handing over the contracted customer to an Account Manager

What can you expect from us?

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a globally reputable company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, and generous annual leave, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS UK, part of RS Group, we’ve been solving Industry problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues, and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join our UK team with over 2000 colleagues in this region – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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