Business Development Manager

Ideal Standard is the UK’s leading manufacturers of bathroom suites, shower enclosures and all manner of bathroom fixtures and fittings. With powerful, market leading brands and their contemporary styling and highly functional solutions, they create bathroom designs for all market sectors with styles that allow everyone to express their own personal flair. They are enjoying a sustained period of growth and change and consequently are looking to attract people from outside its traditional marketplace – ideally from the FMCG world with fresh ideas and new ways of looking at the account base and customers.

This is an excellent opportunity to join them in a Business Development Manager position working alongside an Account Controller on one of the Top 3 accounts in their business. You will be targeted to drive the Ideal Standard agenda and promotional calendar within the account – working to key objectives as agreed with the Account Controller – and interact and influence National, Regional and Divisional Managers within the customer itself. You will have full contribution and commitment to a national sales plan, and as well as extensive customer contact you will act as a key internal liaison with other functional departments and senior management within Ideal Standard.

So a major strength would obviously be communication and influencing ability, and someone who wouldn’t shy away from challenging senior management and trying new things. Ideally, a graduate from a well trained and structured FMCG background, and someone who is looking to make the next step in their field sales career to a position and company that encourages individuality and commercial flair. You must be able to fit into a fast paced, changing environment and be the kind of person keen to take on a variety of challenges and projects.