Bulmers Business Development Manager
About the Role:
As a Business Development Manager, you will lead new business development of a prioritised Bulmers & Craft portfolio within the wider IOI portfolio of brands by leveraging off the existing customer base and enhancing via new business wins.
Your Key Responsibilities:
* You will prospect for potential new clients and turn this into increased business.
* Cold call as appropriate within your geographic area to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities.
* Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging your network.
* Identify opportunities to increase volume and margin sales for your clients, particularly in line with key events in the geographical region.
* Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurate and entered and managed within the company's CRM or other sales management system.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will have excellent commercial acumen, experience of brand portfolio selling and sales experience in a highly competitive environment, ideally with a focus on the On Trade. It is desirable that you have at least a WSET Level 1, but not essential.
You will also have great selling and negotiation skills, strong IT and numerical skills and a full and clean driving license.
About Us:
The C&C Group has a market leading range, scale and reach including an intimate understanding of the markets it serves. Together we grow, brew, manufacture, market, and deliver some of the world's favourite drinks.
The C&C Group is a premium drinks company which owns, manufactures, markets, and distributes a unique portfolio of beer and cider brands in its home markets and across the globe.
Our portfolio of owned/exclusive brands include: Bulmers, the leading Irish cider brand; Tennent's, the leading Scottish beer brand; Magners the premium international cider brand; as well as a range of fast-growing, premium and craft ciders and beers.
We seek to champion and embed sustainability in everything that we do at C&C. While delivering joy to customers, we always shine a light on people and the planet. We have a clear ESG vision delivering to a better world.
We respect, support, and develop all our people to be their best, with a focus on results by creating a culture of winning together.
C&C Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.