Business Development Manager

Sales | Leeds | Full Time | Temporary

Since our beginnings at Dr. Oetker, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts, as well as digital platforms and services – quality and an innovative spirit set us apart.

What awaits you? It's up to you! At Dr. Oetker, you can actively shape the future – both yours and ours. We want to be part of something bigger. Don't you?

JOIN THE TASTE.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you ready to make your mark in a fast-paced, commercially focused Sales team?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our Pizza Sales Team taking ownership of a varied customer portfolio and playing a key role in driving sustainable growth.

You’ll build strong customer relationships, develop and deliver joint growth plans and use insight to unlock opportunities across volume, sales and profit. As the internal expert for your customers and channel, you’ll work closely with teams across the business to turn great plans into great results.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own and grow your customer portfolio, building ambitious business plans that deliver volume, sales and profit.
• Turn insight into action, using customer, category and market data to identify opportunities and drive growth.
• Shape and deliver customer growth plans across range, merchandising, promotions, pricing and cost price increases.
• Maximise omni-channel opportunities across online, convenience, quick commerce, main estate and Pizza to Go.
• Own the forecasting process for your accounts, brining customer and market intelligence into our business planning.
• Work collaboratively across the business, partnering with Sales, Category, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations to deliver shared goals.
• Keep customer plans, promotional activity and commercial processes accurate, up to date and on track.

As a global, family run business our culture really matters to us. We want our employees to make an impact, challenge themselves, work collaboratively and, importantly, have fun along the way!

A career at Dr. Oetker will provide you with:

• Real ownership of a varied customer portfolio and the opportunity to shape sustainable growth.
• Broad commercial exposure working across our Sales, Marketing, Category, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations teams.
• Plenty of opportunity to develop through our internal succession planning tools and wider learning & development offering.

What You Bring:

We’re looking for someone who is commercially curious, confident building relationships and excited by the opportunity to grow both customers and brands.

You’ll bring:

• Experience in customer or account management, with a track record of building and delivering commercial plans.
• Strong commercial, analytical and planning skills, with the ability to turn insight into clear actions.
• Confidence working with sales, volume, profit and forecasting measures.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative and solution focussed approach.
• Experience within a relevant customer or channel would be a bonus, but we’re equally interested in people with transferable commercial experience and the potential to grow.

If you’re commercially minded, love building strong customer relationships and want to opportunity to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

The role will be home based, but you do need to be able to commute to our Leeds Head Office, Leyland Production site and other external locations for face-to-face collaboration and to meet business requirements.

What We Offer:

The Business Development Manager role offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including:

• Generous benefits package
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Free life assurance 4x annual salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme (3% employee contributions, 6% employer contributions)
• Private health care provided by Bupa (single cover)
• Health Care Cash Plan Scheme
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Employee referral scheme (£350 per referral, you’ll want to tell your friends and family all about us!)
• Employee loyalty scheme, recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers