Business Development Manager

About the job

About Gilmours Hawkes Bay

We are a proudly locally owned and operated wholesale food and beverage supplier working with customers in the hospitality and related industries across the greater Hawkes Bay region. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service, building long-term partnerships with our customers, being a trusted brand that offers great value to our customers, and being a fantastic place to work. Being a local owned and operated business, we are not constrained by a rigid corporate operating model, which allows us to be nimble and courageous and stay one step ahead of our competitors.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Business Development Manager that is keen to buy into our vision and help drive business growth in the Hawkes Bay region. As a Business Development Manager, you’ll be the face of Gilmours in the market, helping our business achieve its goal of becoming the preferred food service partner in the Hawkes Bay region. This will include developing strong and long-lasting relationships with both new and existing customers across a range of channels and partnering with these customers to achieve their business goals.

You will have relevant experience in a sales role, preferably with strong foodservice product knowledge across a range of channels (but isn’t a necessity as extensive training will be provided). You’ll be personable and have a focus on providing outstanding service, have a strong work ethic and positive attitude, be self-motivated with good time management and driven by not just achieving targets, but knocking these out of the park. You will be comfortable operating in a highly competitive and fast paced environment.

You’ll be an energetic and like to get things done, leading the way in sales by engaging and influencing to ensure win-wins. An ability to think outside the box, work autonomously and take an active management approach to the customers within your channel to maintain strong relationships is a must. We like team players who will offer feedback and fresh ideas on how we can drive top line revenue growth or suggest changes that help us all work smarter not harder.

What's in it for you?

• Autonomy and flexibility and the ability to own what you do
• A positive, fun and supportive work environment
• Training and career development opportunities
• Strong store values and vision
• Competitive pay and benefits - base pay, bonuses and company car. In addition, there's a bunch of cool ways that we show appreciation for the team and their well-being.

So what next?

If you think you could be a great fit for our team then apply now, we’d love to receive your application. We are keen to fill the role we have available so will be interviewing suitable candidates as they come to hand, so make sure you get your application in today. If you'd like further information on the role, please contact Leanne Bird (HR Manager) via email leanne.bird@gilmours.co.nz or Ollie Newton (General Manager) via email oliver.newton@gilmours.co.nz.