Business Development Executive – £27,000 basic + commission – Horsham, West Sussex

Aerco are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Business Development Executive to join us at our offices in Horsham, West Sussex. The successful candidate will have a number of responsibilities, including receiving customers’ requests for quotation through a number of mediums, delivering an excellent level of customer service and being proactive in identifying accounts that can be developed and grown. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career with a rapidly growing company.

The key responsibilities of a Business Development Executive include, but are not limited to:

• Developing business opportunities from new customers and expanding the customer base
• Creating and continuing to develop outstanding relationship with clients, partners and colleagues, effectively communicating our value proposition both written and verbally
• Identifying and qualifying new opportunities in order to build and develop a sales pipeline for new business prospects
• Adhering to activity KPI’s, creating marketing and lead generation plans for continual improvement on target growth
• Driving attendance to events and webinars
• Ensuring that the CRM system is always up to date
• Demonstrating a good understanding of the business process and sales cycle

Aerco is a stockist and distributor of electrical components, supplying manufacturers and service companies within the aerospace, defence, medical, industrial, rail and transportation markets throughout the world. We maintain franchised partnerships with world-class manufacturers to make Aerco the ideal partner for Supplier Reduction Programmes.

We have a wide range of products, which include: Backshells, Cable, Wire and Accessories, Circuit Breakers, Coaxial Products, Connectors, Crystals & Oscillators, Data Acquisition, Fans, Fuses, Optoelectronics & Indicators, PCB Accessories, Relays & Bases, RFI/EMI, Semiconductors, Sensors, Solenoids and Switches.

The key skills and qualities of a Business Development Executive:

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships with others (customers and suppliers) while retaining appropriate independence
• Persuasive, a good listener and has an enquiring mind; someone who can identify the real and underlying needs of clients and respond to meet them
• Has good knowledge of the features and benefits of Aerco’s products and can articulate them verbally and in writing
• Self-confident and self-motivated towards achieving personal and team goals; and practices good time management and judgement in assessing and responding to team priorities
• Can operate and gain information from the OneOffice system, Goldmine, the sourcing system and all relevant supplier web sites; and create and manipulate documents, spreadsheets etc.
• Understands the markets in which we operate and the positions of the various major players in those markets including customers, suppliers and competitors

If you are keen on joining this exciting, forward thinking company with strong commission rates and taking the next step in your career, then please click the apply now button to find out more.