American Express, Senior Business Development Manager

Role: American Express, Senior Business Development Manager
Salary: £26,000 (Y1 OTE of up to £30K)
Location: Manchester
Ref: EX:J549:MAN

Description

At American Express, we deliver extraordinary service to our customers, constantly reinventing our ways of working to ensure we offer rich rewards that redefine expectations for our clients and ourselves.

Our Global Commercial Payments Team offers businesses of all sizes award-wining payment solutions that provides greater rewards, improved cash flow and visibility and control of spend.

We are looking for a talented and driven sales professional to join our Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Sales team Manchester in the role of "Business Development Manager" (BDM) which provides an exciting opportunity for a self-driven, results oriented individual who ideally would have previous sales experience and is looking for a new challenge.

At American Express the SME segment offers outstanding growth and has great focus and investment due to the relatively untapped opportunity it presents. As such we require a number of talented BDMs to drive our growth strategy in the UK market. This is a telephone based, highly rewarded sales role, with an excellent package including an uncapped incentive scheme. It requires creativity, entrepreneurship coupled with all the traits that make sales professionals successful.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be tasked with assisting in the management of Business Development teams, as well as meeting their own KPIs when it comes to customer outreach.

Help to train and manage internal business development teams

Winning new business on a mix of warm and cold leads via effective consultative selling - understanding customer needs and offering the most appropriate product and services

Building and managing your own pipeline, managing sales leads from identification and initial contact through close, carefully tracking and actioning leads across the sales cycle

Maintain high level of product and service knowledge including product features and benefits, competition in the financial services space, and relevant developments in target industries

Demonstrate the ability to collaborate and influence external customers

Master rapport building, handling objections, and professionalism

Work with internal teams in New Accounts and Risk Management to provide all relevant information to correctly evaluate applications and assign lines of credit on new accounts

Qualifications

Skills required:

Previous sales/industry experience of between 1-3 years is mandatory

Self-driven and results oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on over delivering on your target

Strong communication skills (verbal and written)

A natural forward planner who is highly organized and has the ability to manage multiple customers at different stages of the sales process

Mature, credible and comfortable in dealing with senior company executives.

Reliable, resilient and determined with a real "Will to win"

As a BDM at American Express, you'll enjoy a collaborative culture; one where you have ultimate control over your earning potential receiving an excellent, uncapped commission package, based on your personal contribution.

As you would expect from one of the Sunday Times Top 20 Companies to work for, your successes will be recognized financially as well as great investment in your personal and career growth within American Express supported and encouraged by your leader.

Next Steps:

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(Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to contact all applicants directly. If you haven't heard from us within 28 days please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.)