Business Manager - Furniture

Working in the world of care, we're dedicated to collaborating with our customers to provide care home products, consumables and furniture.  Are you passionate and eager to see growth in the furniture offering to our customers?  We're looking to recruit a permanent, full time individual who is able to retain and grow the furniture area of the business.

Responsibility of the P&L for the furniture area of the business is a key part to this role, as well as collaborating with our Purchasing and Sales teams within Blueleaf in order to curate and manage a range of furniture, in line with market trends, and with our Operations team to ensure a world leading customer journey from contact to delivery.  The ideal candidate will have had  experience in a similar Sales Business Manager role previously, ideally within the care sector, and be able to demonstrate commercial awareness, positivity, and have excellent communication skills.

This is a permanent full time role, working 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday, typical working hours are from 8am to 4:30pm.  Immediate start is available.

About Blueleaf

At Blueleaf, we believe those who care for others are extraordinary.  We're here to support them and ensure they never feel alone, and by understanding our clients needs and challenges, this allows us to find the right solutions to achieve their desired outcomes, as well as providing the essentials that every care home needs.  In an industry which is all about people, we value relationships above all else, we take the time to get to know them, listen to them, and walk in their shoes and those of their residents - always living our values: 'Stronger Together, Achieve the Outcome, Lead the Way and Care. Always'.

With over 30-years’ experience in the care home sector and occupying a large portion of this market, Blueleaf is continually looking at ways to expand and grow by seeking new opportunities, and to use its experience and expertise to help care homes deliver outstanding care for their residents.  We want to be the best at what we do which is why we focus on expertise and excellence, and a 'Blueleafer' embodies consideration, responsibility, humour, teamwork and honesty no matter what job they are doing.

Blueleaf is an equal opportunities employer.

Your day to day responsibilities:

• Full P&L responsibility for this area of the business.


• In collaboration, curate a range of furniture that provides competitive advantage through its design, sustainability and the customer journey.


• Collaborate with Marketing, Customer Service and Operations to support you in delivering an outstanding customer experience.


• Support the Business Managers to scale the business in the furniture ranges of Stock 7 and DesignLab.


• Build a pipeline of larger project business in excess of £100k to deliver in excess of £2m annually.


• Co-ordinating detailed estimates and proposals to present a commercial offering to a prospect.


• Elevate our expertise through industry partnerships and networking.


• Demonstrate our values through the furniture model.


• Develop a strategy to target larger projects in excess of £100k and control the process from prospecting to delivery of the project.
  
  
  
  
  


• Working with operations to ensure the end-to-end customer experience and business process is aligned and efficient, driving value for both.

Skills & Experience

• 5 years' experience selling furniture preferably in the Care sector with an understanding of furniture and equipment for the social care sector.


• Commercial awareness, with a business attitude and business sense that is reflected in every decision and action.


• A positive attitude and mindset, working well as part of a team and being an excellent team player, exuding positivity even through tough times.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written.


• Ability to gather and analyse information.


• Strong decision making and problem solving skills, and be able to ask powerful questions to obtain key information to provide bespoke solutions.

What will we offer?

We will offer an attractive salary including a car allowance, 36 days holiday inclusive of bank and public holidays.  You will be eligible for inclusion in a discretionary bonus scheme and a number of welfare benefits, such as auto-enrolment into our pension scheme, Death in Service benefit, access to our Medicash scheme that provides cash back towards everyday healthcare bills and a wide range of other wellbeing benefits including access to an Employee Assistance Program.

Location

You would work from your home address and be required to travel to either our head office in Crawley or our Castleford office on a regular basis to meet the needs of the role and the business.

Next Steps

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