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Just Recruitment is partnering with an innovative company to recruit a Head of Business Development for their team on the outskirts of Colchester.

This is an exciting role to help shape the future of the business by getting involved as the business advances on a growth strategy. You will need to be a team player as well as be self-motivated, striving for improvements across the business. You will also be highly organised and capable of managing a dynamic workload whilst relishing working with internal and external stakeholders.

Key duties include:

• Managing the existing global distributor network across North America, Japan, and Europe, including strategy development, regular reviews, and general support.
• Developing new direct business with various associated organisations.
• Developing new direct B2B opportunities for ‘bricks & mortar’ retail sales and distribution in the UK and other regions.
• Developing a strategy to access the ‘other’ markets.
• Responding to regular inbound business enquiries.
• Monitoring and responding to complex RFI’s, RFQ’s and other tender opportunities.
• Managing the company’s CRM platform.
• Working closely with the Head of Marketing to develop imaginative lead generation campaigns.
• Working closely with the Head of Marketing to support the global e-com strategy.

Key requirements for the role include:

• A good understanding and experience of global account and channel management.
• Experience in responding to complex RFP’s.
• A good understanding of the role of global e-com, particularly Amazon and Shopify.
• An experienced, strategic and creative new business developer.
• Solid global experience.
• Flexibility to work to global time zones.
• Financially numerate.
• Experience with Hubspot or a similar CRM platform.
• Ability to work as part of a small management team to drive the business forward.
• Ability to quickly understand and demonstrate technical products.
• Excellent interpersonal and written skills.
• Tenacious, persistent and hardworking.
• Team player.
• Ability to work under demanding deadlines.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm - with some flexibility required.

22 days holiday plus bank holidays.

This role offers a competitive salary and bonus package.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is partnering with a well-established, market-leading company in the garden supplies industry to recruit an Area Sales Manager for the East Anglia region, joining their successful sales team.

As an Area Sales Manager, you'll play a key role in driving both new and existing business, working closely with the business support team, driving new business generation, whilst developing the existing customer base. With a focus on field sales and client relationships, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact.

You will have strong prior sales experience, preferably in an external capacity, as well as, have strong communication skills, attention to detail and integrity.

Key experience:

• Working with your internal colleagues, you will require excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Understanding of general customer base, product range, and customer sales data.
• Brand Development and Elevation - methods and techniques.
• Developing/maintaining a strong knowledge of the full product range.
• Discipline, organisational skills and ability to implement and take ownership of tasks to completion.
• Ability to work in a team and to reach out to prospective and current customers.
• Working to set Sales and Gross Profit forecasts.
• Working with and updating the bespoke CRM system to follow up on all leads, enquiries/quotes.
• Providing a consultative approach with customers, creating effective solutions to meet their needs.
• Having the ability to multitask and manage ongoing projects is a must.

This is a unique opportunity to join a well-established local brand, and you'll join the business during an exciting period of growth. This role boasts a competitive salary, pension scheme and company vehicle or car allowance, laptop, mobile phone and all the tools you need to be successful. You’ll also be provided with a comprehensive training and induction process.

Please note the role is home based — with 4 days on the road, covering East Anglia with 1 day working from home. You will need to be able to stay away from home, attend trade fairs and quarterly company sales meetings.

This role offers a competitive package, including basic, achievable commission and bonus structure — company vehicle for the first 6 months, followed by a car allowance, laptop, mobile phone, iPad and all the support you could possibly need to be successful.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for a bright and ambitious Commercial Manager to join an exciting company based in Colchester as it rapidly expands nationwide.

You will be working as part of its supplier negotiation team.

Duties will include:

• Negotiating purchasing agreements to ensure the best deal for the business.
• Delivering support to both managers and estimators in their pricing and queries.
• Providing a point of contact for the suppliers to help deliver its message to the staff and customers.
• Attending events, shows and exhibitions to network and identify further possibilities for a better deal.
• Working alongside the Product File team to create pricing structures to enable our staff to trade competitively.
• Identifying new product ranges and suppliers that will provide future proofing for the years to come.
• Providing direct assistance to the Commercial Director with support from the other Commercial Managers.
• A good level of competency with Excel is a must. Experience in either a similar role or a related industry is preferred.

Key desirable personality traits for this role include a strong numerical aptitude and an enthusiastic, dynamic, 'can-do' attitude.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is partnering with a well-established and successful business in Witham to recruit an Installation Coordinator to join their long-standing team.

For this role, you will be able to demonstrate a genuine desire to provide strong and consistent customer satisfaction and provide administrative support to all departments within the business. You will become part of the company’s friendly, dynamic team and help set it apart from the competition by providing telephone and administration support to a high standard.

Responsibilities include:

• Speaking with customers regarding enquiries.
• Ensuring calls and emails are answered in a timely professional manner, ensuring the required customer experience is always delivered.
• Understanding the customers’ demands and needs and providing solutions to meet those demands and needs.
• Providing administration support to the Service and Installations departments.

You should have proven experience and capability in the following areas:

• Experience working in a customer service environment.
• Proven experience in an administrative role.
• Computer literate.
• Great verbal and written communication skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Must be organised to perform multiple tasks calmly and efficiently under pressure.
• A calm, understanding person to handle the occasional difficult customer.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.00pm.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.