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Commercial Manager – Construction & Building Materials
September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Commercial Manager – Construction & Building Materials
Breedon are currently seeking a Commercial Manager based in Astley Moss, Near Leigh, Lancs.
You will be responsible for managing the commercial and distribution aspects of our Express Minimix business in your regional area, in the pursuit of winning work, delivering exceptional customer service and identifying key opportunities to grow the business.
You will have strong selling, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, along with sound strategic, budgetary and financial knowledge. You will develop a performance culture in the sales and distribution office; this will ensure that an effective and efficient customer interface is achieved from receipt of enquiry, pricing, quotation generation through to order receipt and despatch of materials. Direct line management of the Express team requires a professional, experienced and skilled team manager who can demonstrate their relentless drive to seek out opportunities to deliver ever improving quality and efficiency. A confident manager of people, you will develop, support and recognise the contribution our employees make to the success of our business.
The key skills and competencies required are:
- Adopt Breedon's key values in your day to day work - Keep it Simple, Show we Care, Make it Happen, Strive to Improve
- Ability to perform adequately under pressure and/or opposition. Ability to make controlled responses in difficult situations.
- Positive leadership and line management experience to develop your customer service team, setting strategy and delivering results.
- Foster relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Delegation - effective use of team experience and skills. Knowledge of when, how and whom to delegate. Effective allocation of decision-making and other responsibilities.
- Problem analysis - ability in identifying problems, seeking pertinent data, recognising important information, and identifying possible causes of problems.
- Judgment - ability to evaluate data and course of action and to reach logical decisions. Unbiased, rational approach.
- Initiative - actively influencing events rather than passively accepting; sees opportunities and acts on them. Originates action or ideas.
- Effective time management.
- It is also essential that you are IT literate and have excellent organisational, presentation and analytical skills.
The Group places the highest importance on sustained standards of excellence in all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental management and you will be expected to contribute to the Company's zero harm culture.
A competitive remuneration package will be offered including pension and life assurance.
Contract type Permanent Salary Competitive Closing date for applications 16th September, 2021By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are acting as consultants for the hiring company. Ortolan People are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.