Business Development Manager- Corporate Wear & Workwear

Job Description

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Safe Search International is working in partnership with a well-established family business group who are dedicated to the manufacture of garments for Security and Industrial Protection, Emergencies, Defence and Health. 

We are working together to find a talented Business Development Manager based in Germany with a hunter mentality. We are looking for a dedicated hunter, for the Corporate Wear & Workwear division, this is an opportunity for a mature person that has a high drive to build a business segment. My client has been phenomenally successful with corporate fashion customers in the European markets over the past few years and needs to further accelerate their growth. 

For this fantastic opportunity, you will be working with national and international accounts. 

All sales are consultative. The client bases them on projects, so no catalogues of ready-made garments, but rather, a good, thorough understanding of what a company needs on all levels (users – management) and the capacity to capture and collect well the breadcrumbs of information, that will lead us to provide a solution perceived as outstanding from others. What they need is an influencer to seize the essence of our value proposal and lay it out for the customers, using design thinking or other techniques. 

We are looking for a person with a good understanding of garments, or textiles, and the capacity to build that knowledge into constructing sales strategies. The product is important but only partial to the whole service package that we offer to the market. They talk about customer experiences, user experiences and customer cases rather than just transactional trading.  

This job requires a lot of travel, excellent planning, and high-level organization. You will be required to be in the field, with the customers, talking to the people and connecting the dots on site. You must also be decisive, prioritize your tasks, and act. The manager wording in the job title means that you will be expected to be a natural leader of the sales project, taking ownership, managing resources available and running the show as our front woman or man in the market.  

Area of responsibility and tasks:

• Hunt new customers, no farming 
• This includes international key accounts, based in France, Germany, the Benelux, Austria and Poland. 
• Develop sales activities on-site and implement them.  
• Strengthen the Market presence.  
• Active communication of the brand.  
• Sell product benefits to trading partners.  
• You conduct product training and ensure the realisation of sales and gross profit targets.  
• Development and implementation of local sales activities to strengthen the company’s market presence.  
• Setting up and maintaining a strong distribution network across France.  
• Implementation of product training with active communication of brand and product benefits to trading partners.  
• Responsibility for the realisation of sales and gross profit targets. 

Professional and personal requirements:

In return they offer a team of humble, honest, and sincere smart people, to support you from the second you bring a business opportunity to the table. Their organization is mature and carries a brand full of values, tradition, legacy and sustainability. We do our business by providing the best-in-class in-house methodology to execute sales.  

They value teamwork, curiosity, resilience, enthusiasm, bravery, proactivity, and a sense of ownership. What they offer in return is a fantastic competitive re-numeration package, growth potential and benefits.  

If you are interested in the advertised Business Development Manager job above, please send your application to: info@safesearchinternational.com and reference the job title and location you wish to apply for if it is multiple jobs you are interested in, reference accordingly.