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In the century since, NAPA has exploded across the globe, carrying a reputation of quality and excellence with it. Distributed by Alliance Automotive Group (AAG) in the United Kingdom, NAPA has become a market-leading parts brand in the country with a championship-winning motorsport team. Now, over 275 AAG UK subsidiaries are unifying under the NAPA Auto Parts name, joining the largest network of motor factors in the world. The prestigious NAPA Auto Parts family boasts a staggering 6,000+ locations across the US, Canada, and Australia - and now the United Kingdom.\nWe are currently looking for a Business Development Manager (BDM).\nAs the BDM, you are specifically accountable for delivering sales and margin growth for your customer base. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining strong customer relationships within their targeted territory.\nResponsibilities:\nConfident in building sales strategies and tactics within your required territory\nProven ability to communicate effectively with Branch, Regional and Senior Management\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, field-based trainers, and product managers.\nEffectively analyse business intelligence software\nAble to influence the branch management and sales team.\nTo be successful in this role:\nThe successful candidate must have a customer focused approach with excellent selling skills, combined with the ability to communicate to all customer groups building strong relationships across the region.\nDynamic and performance-oriented individual with strong negotiation and selling skills.\nCommercial awareness and good knowledge of competitor activity and market conditions is a must.\nExtensive experience with customer account management\nPrevious experience delivering sales and margin growth within a business-to-business environment.\nExperience at finding and developing new business.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\nStrong training and presentation skills\nWork well under pressure towards deadlines.\nIn return we offer:\nAn opportunity to join a global brand and market leader.\nExclusive discounts and cashback from 1000s of major retailers and grocers via the AAG Benefits App, including Tesco, Boots and Just Eat.\nOpportunities for career progression and bespoke training.\nFree pension advice from our standard pension provider.\nFree access to Health, Wellbeing and Financial tools.\nPotential to earn a performance based bonus, paid monthly.\nDiscount on car parts\nOther Details:\nCompany Car\nMobile Phone\nNot the right fit? Create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!\nAlliance Automotive Group is an equal opportunities employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2837,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Performance based bonus"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Manufacturing","Wholesale","Automotive Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T10:46:45Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T21:11:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/general-parts-group-business-development-manager-8","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/general-parts-group-business-development-manager-8.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T21:11:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}