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Job Title: Commercial Manager (UK&I), Product Certification
Reports to: Regional Product Certification Commercial Director
Location: United Kingdom –field/home based
Travel: 30%+ of working time, within the UK with occasional travel to Ireland
Language requirements: Business level English language skills, both written and verbal.
BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy
Purpose of the role:
The Commercial Manager role is primarily focussed on driving BSI’s sales growth for Product Certification (PC) activities within the UK&I, including the management of Sales personnel.
The role is responsible for identifying and managing commercial opportunities, building, and maintaining relationships with key clients to understand their business needs and drivers, positioning BSI as a preferred supplier of PC solution services to clients, and achieving key financial objectives.
The successful candidate will have:
1. Excellent communication, collaboration, sales, negotiation and presentation skills.
2. Well-developed people skills, including previous experience of managing a field sales team.
3. A highly commercial approach, business acumen and a proven track record of successful business to business new sales experience, of services rather than products.
4. Excellent relationship building skills, and the ability to engage positively with C-Suite decision makers.
5. A positive, engaging, motivational and developmental leadership approach.
6. Business level verbal and written communication skills in English languages.
7. Desirable: Experience of managing a P&L ledger, budgeting and forecasting.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
8. To provide direction and leadership to UK&I PC sales teams including motivating, engaging, managing, developing and training.
9. To input to budget setting, and deliver budget revenues and cost control. To provide regular accurate business forecasts.
10. Develop and pro-actively pursue innovative plans to identify prospective new clients, develop the market & grow sales, including supporting local marketing initiatives, attending exhibitions, trade shows, etc.
11. To identify opportunities for potential new services and support the development of robust business case.
12. To support the development and commercial launch of new BSI products within the sales teams.
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