Business Development - Shipping
- Employer
- Switch Recruitment
- Location
- East London, London
- Salary
- 30000 - 40000
- Closing date
- 26 Apr 2019
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- Specialist Area
- Import & Export
- Sector
- Accountancy, Advertising & Creative, Automotive, Aviation, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Charities & Not For Profit, Construction, Consultancy, Customer Service, Defence, Distribution, Education, Electronics, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Event Management, FMCG, Food Services, Healthcare, Housing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, Insurance, Legal, Leisure, Management & Executive, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Military, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Private sector, Production & Operations, Professional Services, Public Relations, Public Sector, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Scientific, Secretarial & Administration, Social Services, Telecommunications, Training, Transport & Distribution, Travel & Hospitality, Utilities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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My client are looking for a passionate Business Development Executive to join their team based in East London.
This role is working for a successful shipping Company in East London who operate in niche sectors, they are looking for someone who is confident and has a strong understanding of Export seas predominately Deepsea.
The successful candidate will be:
- Assessing customer requirements, managing the relationship and preparing/delivering presentations appropriately to customers in order to close business.
- Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails; ensuring that service to existing customer base in maintained, that there is a thorough understanding of the business and be proactive in generating additional sales through them.
- Identification of potential new company's and providing initial research data to the VP Sales for agreement on target customer base.
- Drafting of presentation, documents, correspondence and other items of literature such as mail shots, publicity items and brochures
- Conduct desk research on relevant and potential customers, driving initial contact with them in order to arrange meetings and discuss new business prospects.
The Person
- Significant business development experience in freight Forwarding
- You will have extensive sales experience in the Freight/Shipping sectors and have the ability to increase sa
- Ability to work on your own
- Customer and commercially focussed to deliver great service for appropriate reward
- Tenacious and able to deal with rejection and move on
- Creative when finding and converting opportunities
- Careful to ensure that all the relevant detail is complete and accurate
You will receive a very good basic salary and excellent commission, other benefits include pension and gym memebership
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