South East, UK
Graduate business development executive
at Coach House
Coach House is hiring a graduate business development executive to join its team in the South East of the UK.
Job title: business development executive
Salary: competitive salary
Job type: full-time
Location: South East of England with residence in and around the CM postcode area
We are the UK’s largest wholesaler of furniture and design-led accessories and homewares. Through continued growth, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a business development executive with a real passion for homewares, innovative retail and interior design.
Job role
The role is dynamic and creative whereby you will be managing and developing new and existing customer accounts across your designated geographical area, working both remotely from our Chelsea Trade Space and the Lancashire Showrooms as well as around the South East visiting all current and prospective accounts. As such, you will have the opportunity to positively represent the company by building and developing relationships within the already established client base and with new accounts. As well as this, the role requires the ability to identify new prospective accounts in order to build a successful area account base. This role will be enriched with the opportunity to work at some of the most innovative trade fairs in the world.
Your role will be highly customer-facing and will involve meeting with high street retailers, interior designers, property developers and hoteliers to maximise all sales opportunities. The ability to engage with customers within this interior design-led market is essential, as is a passion and ideally previous experience in the homewares/interiors/creative industry.
Essential skills:
- excellent verbal and written communication skills
- commercial awareness
- excellent organisational skills
- drive and ambition with the desire to succeed
- full, preferably clean, UK driving licence
In return:
- a competitive salary
- full bespoke training
- an iPad
- an iPhone
- company car
- pension
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