Business Development Manager

Shaping the Future of Logistics - Your Career Starts at Röhlig

Whether it’s sea freight, air freight, or contract logistics, at Röhlig Logistics you’ll help create tailor-made solutions that move the world forward. As a global, family-owned company founded in Bremen, Germany in 1852, we’ve built our reputation on reliability and trusted partnerships.

Join our international team of more than 2,700 colleagues across 35+ countries and collaborate on exciting projects for customers around the world. You’ll work in a supportive, trust-based, and collaborative environment that values open communication and empowers you to share your ideas and grow professionally. At Röhlig, we’re committed to helping you build a long-term career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance — because we believe success is best achieved together.

For our Heathrow team, we are looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to grow and develop our customer base across the UK, with a strong focus on air freight.

• Generate, develop and manage new business opportunities across the UK, with a primary focus on air freight and additional opportunities across ocean freight.
• Build strong relationships with customers, prospects and internal stakeholders, while working closely with UK Sales, branch management and operational teams to deliver effective customer solutions.
• Manage the full sales process from identifying new business opportunities and arranging meetings through to rate negotiation, solution development, onboarding support and achieving agreed sales targets.

• Proven freight forwarding sales experience, ideally with strong air freight knowledge and a good understanding of ocean freight. Wider multimodal or product background would be advantageous.
• A self-motivated, commercially focused and results-driven approach, with the confidence to work independently and the experience to hit the ground running.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to influence customers and collaborate effectively with colleagues across Heathrow and Birmingham.
• Good commercial awareness, including an understanding of freight forwarding margins, service quality, operational requirements and the importance of securing profitable business.

• Competitive base salary with a rewarding commission structure linked to sales performance
• 24 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Day off for your birthday
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with 7.5% company contribution
• Life assurance scheme
• Perkbox employee benefits and wellbeing platform, including Perkbox Medical
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Specsavers Eye Care Scheme
• Workplace Nursery Provision
• Salary sacrifice tech benefit and Cycle to Work scheme
• Long service awards
• Annual performance awards

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