New Business Manager

New Business Manager – Home/Field Based – North Midlands

Competitive salary – uncapped bonus potential, company car or car allowance and excellent company benefits.

liaise and influence your cross‑functional matrix team colleagues to deliver high quality tender submissions within the guidelines of the approvals and procedures process in place. To work with the new business implementation team and lead the launch of new business wins. To work within the wider UK group to identify joint opportunities for securing new customers. To be a proactive member of the National Account team by assisting development of business goals, objectives and strategic initiatives, and supporting colleagues as required.

• Win commercial new business with customers whose food spend is between £300,000 to £2m per year via active prospecting and by managing a pipeline of prospect opportunities.
• Build cross‑functional relationships with prospect customers on your pipeline so that they see Brakes as their next supply partner and approach you when looking to review suppliers.
• Achieve and exceed sales and margin targets in line with the National Account New Business budget.
• Commit to ethical & responsible sourcing and sustainability coupled with award‑winning products.

• Experience in a similar role would be beneficial.
• Superb customer relationship and rapport‑building skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally.
• High level of structured solution selling and negotiation skills.
• Good commercial acumen and knowledge of the key profit levers.
• Results driven.
• High energy levels and the ability to perform in a fast‑moving and pressured environment and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Proficient with all aspects of technology when building presentations and evaluating tenders using PowerPoint and Excel.

• A competitive salary.
• Huge discount on all sorts of lovely food and award‑winning products.
• Generous holiday allowance, with option to purchase more.
• Recognition awards and incentives.
• Pension.
• Real career opportunities – being part of Sysco, the world’s leading food service business, opens up a world of possibility.
• And much more.

Our Purpose – Connecting the world to share food, and care for one another.