New Business Development Sales Manager / Estimator / Scaffolding (AWDO-P13165) in Preston)

AWD online; Preston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000

Job description

Business Development Sales Manager / Scaffolding Estimator with previous experience in a similar role, in-depth knowledge of the scaffold industry and excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills is required for a well-established company.

SALARY: £45,000 - £55,000 per annum (dependent on experience) + Annual Bonus

BENEFITS: Company Vehicle or Car Allowance, Phone, Laptop, 25 days Annual Leave plus 8 Bank Holidays, Contributory Pension Scheme

LOCATION: Preston, Lancashire – Office based with regular travel required to client sites throughout the North West region

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

PLEASE NOTE: A full UK driving licence is essential to this role

JOB OVERVIEW

We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Business Development Sales Manager / Scaffolding Estimator with previous experience in a similar role, in-depth knowledge of the scaffold industry and excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

As the Business Development Sales Manager / Scaffolding Estimator you will cover the North West Region, preparing quotations, estimates and proposals to gain early involvement in projects.

Working as the Business Development Sales Manager / Scaffolding Estimator you will help develop and implement sales strategies aligned to the business model by targeting key prospects and winning new contracts.

To be successful in this role you will have a proven ability to identify and thoroughly research existing and new market opportunities, great attention to detail and be a highly motivated team player who can manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

DUTIES

Your duties as a Business Development Sales Manager / Scaffolding Estimator will include:

1. Identifying and targeting prospective opportunities / customers
2. Pricing and preparing new tenders, ensuring that they are followed up adequately to maximise the secure rate of targeted opportunities
3. Building relationships with clients old and new
4. Interpreting specifications, schedules, and scopes of works to produce competitive solutions in line with customer requirements
5. Reading and scaling building drawings to ensure customer requirements are met and where possible exceeded
6. Securing works for the operations team
7. Attend negotiations and pre-start handover meetings
8. Preparing Handover packs for secured tenders including labour spends for the operations team

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

1. Experienced scaffolding estimator with an in-depth knowledge of the scaffolding industry and previous scaffold estimating experience
2. Be experienced in interpreting specifications, schedules, and scopes of works
3. Be commercially aware with ability to interpret terms and conditions of customer’s enquiries
4. Be experienced in reading and scaling building drawings
5. Be experienced in pricing and preparing tender enquiries
6. Experience in Smart Scaffolder would be preferable
7. Excellent written and communication skills
8. Negotiation and influencing skills
9. Excellent IT and literacy skills and experienced in using Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/Teams/Outlook/SharePoint)
10. Self-Organisation
11. Attention to detail
12. Client friendly
13. Full clean UK driving license

HOW TO APPLY

To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit your CV to our Recruitment Team who will review your details. CV’s of Job Applicants meeting this requirement will be submitted to our Client for consideration. By submitting your job application to us you are hereby giving us your express consent to submit your details to our Client for this purpose.

JOB REF: AWDO-P13165