Commercial Manager - #1710960

Are you a proactive and results focused professional with experience in a commercial environment looking for a role that blends sales, coordination and strategic support? We’re seeking a Commercial Manager to join our Containers Division to play a pivotal role in supporting business growth! If you’re keen to build your experience, working with a small team, offering the opportunity to make a real difference to our commercial success, this is the role for you!

Your role

In this role, you will identify and engage cold leads, follow up with warm leads and assess the opportunities presented by sales opportunities. You will leverage real time market and competitor insights to drive sales and expand our reach.

You will play a key role in overseeing the sales cycle management, ensuring our CRM is accurate and updated in a timely manner, logging interactions and tracking progress. You will support the wider Commercial Team by devising reports and presentations to assist in meeting our sales targets and to adhere to commercial processes and governance.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What you’ll bring

You will:

• Ideally have a background in commercial coordination, sales or business development;
• Have experience of using a variety of sales and productivity tools to facilitate logging of sales and customer interactions;
• Have experience of planning, recording and monitoring progress of sales and commercial activities;
• Have experience of engaging with and influencing customers and stakeholders;
• Have strong analytical skills with experience of devising and analysing reports and data.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Pension which is a matched contribution scheme up to 10%
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!