Market Development Manager

Home based: Office Preston

Total Bitumen, a leading bitumen supplier in the UK market, is recruiting a Market Development Manager. Total Bitumen has over 40 years' experience in the UK bitumen market, meeting current and future customer expectation by providing sustainable and durable solutions with a wide product range.

In line with current and future market expectation, the role will be to identify, develop and deliver new products and services. Being able to harness the considerable knowledge from Group Technical and Research & Development departments, in tandem with the UK Technical Centre in Preston.

As a Market Development Manager you will use your experience to provide innovative solutions for the company. The role will also be to coordinate the roll-out of Total Bitumen's Marketing Communications strategy in line with the delivery of such new products and services through various media.

Requiring strong presentation skills, the creation and development of customer and commercial relationships will be pivotal to the success of the role. You will also need to be educated to degree level or equivalent with a technical knowledge of bitumen and asphalt as a prerequisite. An understanding of other bitumen markets such as waterproofing would be beneficial.

Working in a team, you will need to demonstrate strong leadership skills so as to guarantee on-time/on-cost delivery of all projects.

In return for your industry experience and passion for product development, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Initial responses will be directed through our recruitment partner, Jobs at Pertemps, so please send your CV outlining your salary requirements using the contact form below quoting reference: TB/MDM, or telephone Kirsten Stewart on 0161 834 9444.