{"id":2126716,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsfgroup-business-development-manager-3","title":"Business Development Manager","company":{"id":4372535,"name":"GSF Car Parts","domain":"gsfgroup.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/gsfgroup","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eploy","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":111,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":6,"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Wokingham, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":40000,"max_usd":88000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":271},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-29T09:47:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-12","last_verified_at":"2026-10-13T15:52:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":76,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":76},"description":"About The Role\nAt GSF Car Parts, providing an excellent service and supporting our customers is our most important priority. As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for actively engaging with customers within an agreed geography to grow market share and increase loyalty.\nAs the Business Development Manager, you will expand the customer base through targeting new business opportunities across existing and new sales channels.\nThe role will cover customers for ourWokingham, Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke branches so you must be based local enough to travel to customers within the area.\nMain duties include:\nPro-actively grow the branch customer base by targeted new business generation and opening new accounts: Target new IMT accounts and new non-IMT accounts e.g. Dealerships, Manufacturers, Re - sellers.\nTarget high potential existing IMT and National Accounts for Growth.\nWork in collaboration with branch team to Identify target IMT accounts using CRM data and local knowledge.\nWork with National Accounts to identify and target opportunity accounts.\nPartner with supplier field sales to grow market share across key categories through joint workouts and initiatives \nGrow market share in own brand products and identify target accounts using MI to identify opportunities to grow own brand products. \nGrow our digital sales channels.\nRole out of Parts finder APP across IMT channels and GMS integration using AOLV4. \nWork with GE team to drive tooling and equipment sales\nUtilise the lead generation system\nWorking hours:\n45 (average) hours per week, Monday to Friday\nAbout You\nThe ideal candidate will have proven experience in field-sales, or a similar role within FMCG industry, or multi-site organisation.\nWhat you’ll need to succeed:\nStrong Automotive product and competitor knowledge is desirable however not essential\nStrong negotiation and presentation skills\nCustomer database and analysis experience would be advantageous\nDynamic, persuasive personality\nAble to communicate effectively\nElectronic catalogue experience would be handy but not paramount\nOperative with enthusiasm and commitment\nSelf-motivated and able to manage own time effectively\nProven track of B2B Sales\nIT Literate, specifically within excel and powerpoint\nFull UK Driving Licence with a maximum of 6 points\nWhat we'll offer:\nBenefits at GSF Car Parts are designed to support all aspects of our team members life throughout their career. Whether that’s their health, wealth or everyday lifestyle, we are here for our team members and their loved ones and there is something for everyone! To name a few of our benefits we offer:\nOpportunity to earn a performance based bonus as part of this role\n20 days annual leave (including bank holidays) plus the opportunity to earn up to 5 more with time-served\nFree flu vaccine\nHealth & wellbeing tools\nFree support from pension experts\nLife assurance scheme\nDiscounts from 100’s of household names including Asda, Nike & John Lewis\nA suite of financial wellbeing products including advances and savings schemes\nPaid time off to volunteer\nTraining qualifications and career progression opportunities\nAbout Us\nGSF Car Parts is one of the UK’s leading automotive parts distributors, supplying thousands of independent garages throughout the UK and Ireland with parts, tools, garage equipment and specialist training. The group has over 175 branches nationwide and a turnover exceeding £475 million. Built on the heritage and success of a dozen local brand identities acquired over several years, we have traded as one brand since November 2021. Our branch network is bolstered by centralised support and expertise from specialist departments in key areas such as procurement and supply chain, marketing and national accounts. The business also benefits from integrated IT systems, which include our industry leading catalogue system, Allicat, and access to the Group's national garage programme, Servicesure.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3957,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Performance based bonus"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Auto Parts & Accessories Retail"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T00:33:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.176,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":75,"expected_fill_days":6,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsfgroup-business-development-manager-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsfgroup-business-development-manager-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T22:44:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34694,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4372535},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4372535"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgsfgroup-business-development-manager-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgsfgroup-business-development-manager-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgsfgroup-business-development-manager-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gsfgroup-business-development-manager-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgsfgroup-business-development-manager-3"}]}