Job Description:

Job Title: Water Treatment Business Development Manager

Location: Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire

Salary/Benefits: £40k - £65k + Benefits & Commission

A growing name within the Water Treatment sector is recruiting for a proactive Business Development Manager to promote further company growth. They are seeking an ambitious and motivated individual, who holds a proven track record of identifying new business opportunities and successfully converting into client accounts. It is essential that applicants hold robust industry technical knowledge, including ACOP L8, HSG 274 and in addition to process water systems experience. This is an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the growth of a professional and highly respected company, who have a stronghold across the South of England. Our client is offering attractive salaries, in addition to competitive commission scheme, company vehicle and further progression / training.

Our client can consider candidates from the around following locations: Milton Keynes, Buckingham, Luton, Hitchin, Letchworth Garden City, Royson, Biggleswade, Bedford, St Neots, Cambridge, Aylesbury, Chesham, Amersham, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, St Albans, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Potters Bar, Watford, Harlow, Huntingdon, Ely, Oxford, Bicester, Didcot, Banbury, Brackley.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Excellent reputation as a Water Treatment Business Development Manager
• Ideally will hold industry-recognised qualifications / training
• Fully conversant in ACOP L8 and HSG 274 guidelines
• Strong sales acumen
• Experience with testing kits, cooling towers, steam boilers and closed systems
• Confident negotiating and selling directly to clients
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills

The Role:

• Actively contributing to the growth of water treatment, cooling tower, steam boiler and closed system client accounts
• Identifying potential business opportunities
• Following up on warm client leads to convert successfully
• Using various means to contact prospective clients, including cold calling
• Promoting company services to new clients
• Upselling / upgrading existing client accounts
• Acting as a key point of contact for clients
• Contributing to the bidding process, ensuring tenders are accurate and competitive
• Handling incoming client enquiries
• Attending client sites to scope for new contracts
• Building strong relationships with new clients
• Meeting / exceeding sales targets
• Working closely with Directors to track progress and personal sales performance

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene industry; we work with the best clients & candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market.

We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Account Managers and Business Development/Operational Managers through to Director level. 

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful.  Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.

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