Business Development Manager - Plastic Manufacturing (Ref: PK8192)

NEW VACANCY! (PK8192)

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - PLASTIC MANUFACTURING

GREATER MANCHESTER

£40-50K + Car /Car Allowance + Company Pension Scheme

Our client is a well-established manufacturer of plastic products supplied to major UK and European companies. Well known for their design, development, and manufacture of bespoke products to suit customer specifications. They are looking to recruit a client facing Technical Sales Engineer / Business Development Manager based in the Greater Manchester area.

The role will be hybrid with a few days per week visiting customers.
The ideal candidate will have recent experience selling / account managing / technical sales or sales engineer to an appropriate industry, this could be Packaging, Automotive, Logistics, Tooling, Componentry etc .

Ideally with Injection or Blow Moulding Plastics experience.

Responsibilities:

To promote the sale of the company's products to all existing and potential new customers by -
Soliciting for new business at an early concept stage with the appropriate contacts within the customers' organisation.
Soliciting for new business on established vehicles and other customer products wherever the opportunity may present itself.
To maintain good relations with the company's customers, attending to customers' needs.
To liaise with the customer and appropriate personnel within the factory to ensure that enquiries and quotations are properly dealt with.
Requesting and ensuring effective processing of customers' orders and samples take place.
To make recommendations to customers regarding the nature of the product required e.g. blow moulding, injection moulding.
To undertake investigations on competitor activities within the customer base.
Reporting criteria would normally be on competitiveness, product, manufacturing, and technical capabilities.
To ensure that both the company and the customers systems are adhered to and that any necessary documentation is compiled and progressed in a professional manner.
To promote at every opportunity the sales of blow mouldings and injection mouldings to both motor trade and other trades consistent with their capabilities, equipment and production capacity.
To undertake such market investigations as may be directed in respect of new plastic products and new customers.
To keep themselves abreast of developments in plastics, particularly blow mouldings, so as to be able to advise the company on new market outlets for its existing products, or changes in any market trends, and to make where appropriate suggestions regarding suitable new products.
To prepare regular reports on the progress of all business arising out of their contact with their customers and to attend any in plant meetings as may be considered necessary.