Business Development Manager

🔥 13 hours ago

🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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Speedy Freight

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Private equity on 2021-08

Logistics • Transport • eCommerce

Speedy Freight is a national courier and logistics company providing dedicated same-day collection and delivery, end-to-end transport, and international freight services across the UK and Europe. It operates 24/7 with a network of local branches and specialist vehicle fleets, offering services such as same day and next day delivery, multi-drop, full-load and part-load freight, import/export and customs clearance, air freight, temperature-controlled and two-person deliveries, and eCommerce fulfilment. The company emphasizes dedicated (non-co-loaded) deliveries, real-time tracking, tailored pricing, and has carbon-neutral certification for parts of its operations.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of business development across Southern Ireland • Identify and target new commercial opportunities • Build a strong pipeline through proactive prospecting, networking, referrals and market development • Identify businesses with complex, urgent or specialist transport requirements • Demonstrate how Speedy Freight can help prospective customers • Develop relationships with decision-makers across multiple sectors • Convert conversations into long-term customers • Manage the full sales process from prospecting through negotiation, onboarding and account development • Build understanding of the Irish market, competitors and customer needs • Collaborate with the wider Speedy Freight team to convert opportunities into successful customer relationships • Help shape Speedy Freight's approach to the Irish market • Own targets, activity and pipeline and influence territory growth

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in a B2B Business Development / Sales role, ideally within logistics, freight, transport or another service-led environment • Strong track record of new business development and winning new customers • Confidence to pick up the phone, open doors and create relationships from cold • Consultative approach to understanding customer challenges • Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills • Resilience and self-motivation to work remotely and build a new territory independently • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills • Genuine appetite for growth, ownership and getting stuck in • Willingness and ability to travel regularly across Ireland • Logistics experience is not required; sales, relationship-building and territory-development capability is more important

🏖️ Benefits

• Genuine ownership of a new territory and the opportunity to shape its success • Opportunity to build a customer base and pipeline from the ground up • Support, systems and expertise from an established logistics brand • Freedom and flexibility of a remote-based role • Travel across Ireland, meeting customers and developing relationships face-to-face • Opportunity to play a key role in shaping Speedy Freight's growth • Employment in Ireland through an appointed Employer of Record managing local payroll and employment administration • Competitive salary + bonus