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Business Development Manager Programme


Business Development Manager Programme

The Opportunity

Kite Packaging is launching their 2023/2024 Business Development Manager Programme, designed for those who have a talent for selling and want to develop a career in field sales. From its start in 2001, Kite Packaging has grown to a £160m company and through the Academy is recruiting candidates to join its existing 40 strong field sales team.

We are looking for ambitious candidates to join the Field Sales Academy team with the potential to progress into Kite Business Development Managers.

Running over an 18 to 24-month period, the successful candidates will participate in a comprehensive sales training programme, designed to give exposure to a wide range of Kite’s sales functions and activities.

Applications are now open for candidates looking to progress in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and employee-owned company.

What we’re looking for:

Candidates must:

  • ­Have work experience within a customer interfacing business environment
  • ­Be highly self-motivated and have hunger to succeed
  • ­Be able to self-manage and plan effectively
  • ­Have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills in order to create rapport
  • ­Be driven by targets and be passionate about what they do
  • ­­Have a full UK driver’s licence
  • ­Operate out of their local Kite Regional Distribution Centre

Locations:

  • Coventry RDC (Midlands)
  • Gateshead RDC (North East)
  • Letchworth RDC (North London & East Anglia)
  • Swindon RDC (Thames Valley)
  • Portsmouth RDC (South Coast)

What you’ll get:

Your remuneration package includes

  • ­Excellent competitive salary 
  • ­New Business Bonus Scheme + Interim Bonus Scheme in 2024
  • ­Company car or car allowance with business mileage
  • ­Company laptop
  • Mobile
  • 20 days paid annual leave, plus all bank holidays
  • The option to become a shareholder in the business after 6 months employment
  • After 6 months a range of benefits: life insurance, pension, cycle to work scheme and an optional healthcare scheme

To Apply

To apply, please send a covering letter and CV together with your preferred location, for the attention of Joey Turner to : aimhigh@kitepackaging.co.uk