Business Development Manager - Italian Speaking - Remote

About you
You are an experienced, personable, outgoing sales professional with a passion for building relationships with clients. You thrive when picking up the phone to call potential clients, discussing our products and their value.

You specialise in maintaining a client portfolio in a B2B sales environment. You are detail-oriented in your work and able to follow a process and record interactions within a CRM. If you have direct experience with acquiring new customers and successfully retaining repeat business then we would love to speak with you.

About the role
Joining a newly established Account Management team responsible for building relationships with dealers and enabling their business growth through our Dealer Subscriptions product.

You’ll be sourcing and prospecting new leads from trade customers to discuss how they will benefit from listing their stock on our marketplace and increasing the stock content on our site. You will report on customer engagement with trade listings to demonstrate the value of our site to sellers.

About us
www.carandclassic.com
Car & Classic is one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world. We’re lucky to have thousands of user-generated listings submitted monthly with content gems from James Bond’s Aston DB5 to Elvis Presley’s Cadillac. The site is old, launched in 2005 but under new, VC-backed ownership since 2018 and on an exciting triple-digit growth journey to bring classic vehicle transactions online.

Our culture is incredibly important to us. We’ve built the team from scratch with a focus on enjoying the day-to-day, diversity, inclusion and high performance. Despite being an entirely distributed business we build strong connections as colleagues and have created a fun and high-performing culture.

We’re looking for a Business Development Manager that has good, relevant experience and wants to make their mark in a rapid growth business where they can make a real difference, whilst enjoying the environment and culture.

Role and responsibilities:

• Identify and target dealerships in Italy that align with our brand and platform to bring their vehicles onto our marketplace.
• Acquiring new Trade customers onto our listing subscriptions through prospective calls & emails.
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with Trade sellers/clients.
• Maximising the benefit to our Trade customers and growing their account with us.
• Maintaining accurate records within a CRM and subscription management platform.
• Follow up with Trade sellers/clients to review our service and secure subscription renewal.

The skills, attributes and experience you must have:

• B2B Sales: Experience working in B2B sales, ideally in the automotive or marketplace industry selling subscription packages.
• Prospecting: Experience in generating sales relationships from scratch through multiple channels such as outbound calls.
• Targets & KPIs: Demonstrable experience working and exceeding in a target-driven environment.
• Relationship Building: Excellent customer service skills, able to build long-lasting relationships with clients.
• Communication & Presentation: Native Italian speaker with excellent written and verbal communication skills. You'll also need to be fluent in English so you can communicate with international colleagues.
• Proactive: A hands-on, get-stuff-done, action-orientated approach.
• Passionate: Interest in classic cars is a bonus.

What do you get (remuneration & benefits)?

• Competitive base salary + commission.
• Stock options.
• All the equipment you need to get the job done.
• Flexible working - work where and when you want in order to get the job done.
• Access to free counselling, therapy and mental health support via Spill.
• Professional development allowance.
• Generous parental leave.
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays).
• Ability to make your mark on a fast-growing start-up.

Our application process
Every role is crucial to us at this stage of our growth. Once you decide to apply you’ll be presented with a series of questions. The answers to the questions are the difference between your application being progressed or not. Please do give them your time and effort when answering.

Good luck with your application and thank you in advance for your interest in joining us at Car & Classic.

Car & Classic Limited is an equal opportunity employer
Equality, diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our culture. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we hold ourselves responsible. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role.