
5001 - 10000 employees
🏗️ Construction
🛒 Retail
Construction • Retail • Building Materials
STARK Building Materials UK is one of the UK’s largest retailers and distributors of building and construction materials, operating over 550 dedicated builders' merchant branches and distribution centres. The company serves professional tradespeople by providing essential construction products and specialized expertise, empowering them to grow their businesses. With a wide range of brands under its umbrella, STARK UK caters to various sectors within the building and construction industry, promoting integrity and support to its customers.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
💰 Business Development (BDR)
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👻 Ghost score 12%
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5001 - 10000 employees
🏗️ Construction
🛒 Retail
Construction • Retail • Building Materials
STARK Building Materials UK is one of the UK’s largest retailers and distributors of building and construction materials, operating over 550 dedicated builders' merchant branches and distribution centres. The company serves professional tradespeople by providing essential construction products and specialized expertise, empowering them to grow their businesses. With a wide range of brands under its umbrella, STARK UK caters to various sectors within the building and construction industry, promoting integrity and support to its customers.
• Drive new business growth across Scotland and the North of England • Identify, target and win new business with regional housebuilders and developers • Build influential relationships from company owners and directors to commercial teams, project managers and site-based colleagues • Position Jewson as a strategic partner by showcasing products, expertise, supply chain capabilities and tailored solutions • Work with Project Estimators on competitive quotations, pricing and value-engineered solutions • Develop commercial propositions to improve efficiency, manage costs and support successful projects • Create and develop a pipeline of new business opportunities • Lead commercial negotiations and secure new contracts that deliver revenue and margin growth • Build internal relationships across branches, sales, estimating, logistics and suppliers • Own the customer journey from initial engagement through opportunity development, negotiation, onboarding and delivery • Identify market opportunities, understand competitor activity and develop strategies to increase Jewson’s presence in the regional housebuilder sector
• Proven track record of winning new business and delivering significant commercial growth within a B2B environment • Collaborative approach, able to bring together internal teams, suppliers and external stakeholders without direct line management responsibility • Experience in construction, housebuilding, building materials or a related industry is preferred • Exceptional influencing and stakeholder management skills • Ability to build credibility quickly, establish trust and develop relationships across professional backgrounds • Confident communicator able to adapt communication style and gain buy-in from senior decision-makers and operational teams • Strong commercial awareness and ability to translate customer challenges into business solutions • Excellent negotiation and presentation skills • Ability to take ownership and accountability for the customer journey • Self-motivated, resilient and tenacious • Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to operate with autonomy across a large geographical territory • Willingness to travel extensively across Scotland and the North of England
• Competitive Basic Salary • Performance Related Bonus • 34 days holiday per year • Company car or Cash out option • Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) – with Legal & General • Life Assurance • Work Perks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway • Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation) • Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover • Refer a Friend scheme • Wellbeing Centre via Work Perks • Apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs • Reasonable adjustments throughout the application and interview process
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