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Trainee Business Development Executive

Fantastic career opportunity to join our well established and brilliant Business Development Department.

A Trainee Business Development Executive focuses on identifying new business opportunities (projects or high level customer meetings) with key customer groups such as Landscape Architects, Engineers, Main Contractors, Groundworkers and House Builders, in line with the targeted campaigns of the team. 

A Trainee Business Development Executive understands the market, the customers and provides hard landscaping design support, product options or prices in order to generate a new business lead, which is passed to the relevant external sales team member to convert into a new Tobermore specification or order.

Important Information
Location: Headquarters, Tobermore Concrete Products Ltd, 2 Lisnamuck Road, Tobermore, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, BT45 5QF
Date Posted: 14th September 2021
Closing Date: 30th September 2021
Industry: Manufacturing and Engineering
Job Type: Full time
Salary: Based on Experience

About the role

Key Duties:
• Identify new projects by scrutinizing planning leads & BarbourABI. 
• Contact current customers to gain new business projects. 
• Contact new, unknown customers to gain new business opportunities. 
• Use LinkedIn to identify potential new business targets. 
• Follow up on website enquiries to gain new business leads. 
• Develop Fast Find Secura downloads into business opportunities. 
• Follow up on mailers where customers have clicked & opened the emails to gain new business. 

What you will need

Required criteria

  • 5 GCSE’s including English & Maths A – C.
  • 6+ months of customer service experience.
  • • Very well organised person
  • • Self-motivated
  • • Ability to work as part of a team and independently
  • • Great communication skills
  • • Ambitious and keen to success and progress
  • • Time management
  • • Adaptable to change
  • • Handling rejection
  • • Engaging
  • • Team player
  • • Ability to plan own approach / strategic thinker
  • • Positive outlook
  • • Persistent
  • • Systematic
  • • Can do attitude

Desired criteria

  • • A Levels / Degree
  • • Business development experience
  • • Knowledge of the Construction Industry
  • • Telephone selling/tele marketing
  • • CRM experience
  • • Full and clean driving license

Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity

Sales Communications

Sales Communications

Time Management

Time Management

IT skills

IT skills

Attention to detail

Attention to detail

Multi Tasking

Multi Tasking

Teamwork

Teamwork

Communication

Communication

Planning and Organising

Planning and Organising

Tobermore

Tobermore is a family run organisation, the family ethos of the firm is mirrored in the dedication of our staff. Tobermore is an award winning company and has been recognised both locally and internationally for both business processes and product quality. Our paving and walling products are manufactured from our plant in Northern Ireland and supplied right across the UK and Ireland. Together we will create beautiful spaces by producing world-class products whilst providing an outstanding customer experience.

Tobermore is an equal opportunities employer.

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Tobermore began life as a humble sand and gravel business started by the Henderson family in 1942. We then diversified into concrete products, which were sold to the local community in the 1950s. In the late 1970s we became one of the forerunners in manufacturing block paving – or ‘Pavia’, as it was originally called. Now, more than 80 years later, we are one of the top paving and walling manufacturers in the UK and Ireland, and pride ourselves on our world-class technology and the unrivalled quality of our products. Achieving £85 million sales in 2021/22 and positioned number 24 in the NI Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies 2022, your future is in good hands. Working alongside forward thinking business professionals throughout the business and receiving continuous learning and support, start your Tobermore career today.

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Our people To this day, the business remains family-run. We employ 450+ staff throughout the UK and Ireland. We embrace, encourage and engage in continuous improvement and continuous learning for all employees. Our people are the backbone to our company. They understand the importance of customer relationships. People buy from people. Our success is a testament to how customers appreciate our staff that have been trained and developed to deal professionally with all customer requirements. We only recruit people who share our values.

Our benefits

You Grow... We Grow It’s true. Continuous improvement lies at the heart of Tobermore's ethos. We encourage our staff to reach their potential through training in a supportive and fulfilling environment. At Tobermore, we take great pride in providing everyone with the opportunity to learn, develop and progress to do great things. We want to give our employees the opportunity to build on the already great skills and experience that they bring with them. View our employee perks below, dependent on the role.

Vacation, Paid time off

Performance bonuses

Retirement plan and/or pension

Office perks

Employee development programs

Employee discounts

Opportunity to travel

Remote working

Free parking

Free work laptop

Open office

Company retreats

Competitive salary

Event tickets

Long service recognition

We are a proud diversity ambassador

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Trainee Business Development Executive

Tobermore is a family run organisation, the family ethos of the firm is mirrored in the dedication of our staff. Tobermore is an award winning company and has been recognised both locally and internationally for both business processes and product quality. Our paving and walling products are manufactured from our plant in Northern Ireland and supplied right across the UK and Ireland. Together we will create beautiful spaces by producing world-class products whilst providing an outstanding customer experience.

Tobermore is an equal opportunities employer.