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Telesales / Business Developer
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Telesales / Business Developer
Join the UK’s No. 1 Trade Kitchen Supplier
Role: Business Developer
Join Howdens as a Business Developer and play a key role in growing your local depot. We’re looking for someone who enjoys speaking to people face-to-face and on the phone, building relationships, and driving business.
You’ll introduce Howdens to new trade customers, stay close to existing accounts, and identify opportunities to grow spend by understanding customer needs and their projects.
Working Environment & Collaboration
Working as part of a busy depot team, you’ll support sales activity by:
- Generating leads
- Arranging appointments
- Keeping the pipeline moving
You’ll collaborate closely with:
- Kitchen Sales Designers
- Territory Sales Representatives
- Converting conversations into opportunities and opportunities into sales.
Mentality & Fit for Success
If you’re confident on the phone, enjoy building rapport, and thrive under results-driven targets, you’ll align perfectly with our culture.
Competitive Attractions
What We Offer You:
- Competitive salary, brilliant bonuses, and outstanding depot incentives
- Excellent pension plan (up to 12% company contribution)
- Up to 32 days annual leave, including bank holidays (Holiday entitlement rises with service)
- Generous staff discount on Howdens products
- Buy-as-you-earn share scheme
- 40-hour working week
- No evening, Sunday, or Bank Holiday working
- Virtual GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
- A strong team culture that genuinely sets us apart
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Key Responsibilities
Your Daily Work Includes:
- Calling existing trade customers to build long-term relationships and grow potential business
- Using customer data to identify inactivity, bringing accounts back on track
- Managing a targeted customer list and achieving daily call targets
- Keeping up to date with customer projects to spot opportunities for added value, repeat sales, and advisory growth
- Arranging surveys, appointments, deep-dive sales meetings, and pre-sorted sales events for Kitchen Sales Designers
- Promoting Our products, offers,Discounts and upcoming events to keep customers engaged
- Supporting administration, including invoicing and outgoing mail
- Collaborating with the wider team to help your Depot beat it’s monetary targets and deliver excellent customer service
environmental and cultural fit
- We take pride in getting things right the first time for our customers
- We form a fully integrated team culture with a shared goal: one for all and all for one
- Everyone pulls their weight: growing the team alongside managing workloads/inevitable demands
- A fast-paced depot works simply, swiftly and smartly to meet commitments daily
- Our depot’s success is collective — everybody plays a role in reaching and exceeding business targets, sharing in the team bonus along the way.
- We build effective Team trusts by honouring commitments made
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Requirements
Who We’re Looking For:
- A confident communicator, comfortable speaking to customers on the phone and in person
- Someone who thrives building relationships and converting discussions into growth opportunities
- Someone who is commercially astute, focused on driving sales and adding measurable value
- A self-motivated, upbeat, positive, and proactive individual
- Dependable, organised, and adept at managing customer activity while keeping an accurate track of opportunities & KPIs
- Bought-in to and acclimatised to working to call targets and activity levels
Helpful in practice but not essential:
- relevant roles or experience in:
- Telesales
- Account management
- Customer-focused roles
Disclaimer of Media
Please note that candidates applying for this role must have a valid right to work in the UK. We do not offer sponsorship of employment for any depot positions at this time. We appreciate your understanding.
Contact Us
For recruitment support or adjustments, please email recruitment@howdens.com with the job title and location.
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