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Business Development Manager – Educational Furniture
Job Title: Business Development Manager – Educational Furniture
Industry Sector: Furniture Solutions, Lab Furniture, FF&E, Schools, Education, Fit-Out, Educations Interiors, Interior Fit-Out, Fit-Out Companies, Furniture, Design & Build Services, Architects, Specifiers, Contractors, Local Authorities, Schools, Education
Area to be covered: will determined on your location
Territories that would be considered (Midlands, Yorkshire, South East & East Anglia)
Remuneration: £40,000 + 1% uncapped commission
Benefits: Full benefits package and car allowance
The role of the Business Development Manager – Educational Furniture will involve:
- Field sales position selling the design and delivery of educational furniture solutions for school/ education laboratories
- Selling / generating specifications into a varied customer base: a) direct to schools via estate managers, business managers and multi academy trust’s own surveyors b) through specification via architect sand c) via the main contactors/ builders
- 80% New business development role, 20% inherited project pipeline
- Leads provided (Barber ABI)
- Project cycles from 12-18 months typical for 1-3 school lab refurbishments
- Problem solving, resolving conflicts and providing solutions to customers’ needs
- Targeted to achieve circa £850k – £1m of new business
- Typical projects would include schools, healthcare and associated industries
The ideal applicant will be a Business Development Manager – Educational Furniture Solutions with:
- Ideally come from an educational furniture field sales background
- Ideally from a specification sales background within the school refurbishment market place
- Open to most educational interior backgrounds
- Specific laboratory furniture product knowledge is not essential
- Understanding of FF&E packages for the education sector
- Understanding of design and fit-out
- CAD experience would be advantageous however not essential
- Highly motivated and able to work on own initiative
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects / problem solving attitude
- Good time management skills, focused and customer service orientated
Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Field Construction Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within: Furniture Solutions, Office Fit-Out, Interior Fit-Out, Fit-Out Companies, Furniture, Office Furniture, Interior Products, Office Furniture, Interior Designers, Design & Build Services, Architects, Specifiers, Contractors, Local Authorities, Schools, Education