Business Development Manager

**Job Title**: Business Development Manager (East Region)
**Salary**: c£56k (Dependant on Skills and Experience) + company car or car allowance
**Location**: Home Based with Regular Regional Travel
**Working Hours**: 35 hours per week
**Contract Type**: Full, Permanent

The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is the biggest farming organisation in the UK. We're proud to make a difference for all our members, by shaping attitudes towards British farming and leading the charge on a range of major issues, from climate change and food standards to rural crime and broadband rollout.
**Purpose of the role & how you will contribute: **

As an experienced leader, you will manage and develop a small team of County Advisers, who together manage around 80 NFU Group Secretaries (Farming Agents). County Advisers and Group Secretaries are the first point of contact for NFU members who are at the heart of everything we do, from member recruitment, events, services and local lobbying.
You will be required to develop and implement a regional strategy to grow membership and engage members through your team. This will include managing the performance of your team to ensure delivery against the NFU business plan. You will also be required to work with the NFU Mutual to ensure that any changes to the Mutual network benefit both organisations.

This is a newly created role within the East Region. Please see the Regional map before applying.

Within the NFU we call this role Network Manager (East).

**What you'll bring**:
To be successful in this role, you will have experience of working in, or alongside, the farming industry with an in-depth knowledge of the current issues and an understanding of the challenges of operating in a membership organisation.
Your experience of building and leading teams that deliver, combined with proven influencing and communication skills will be evidenced in your ability to build effective relationships with members and wider stakeholders alike. With some experience of operating in a sales environment, you will be goal oriented, able to work under pressure and meet deadlines in order to achieve membership retention and growth targets.
The role will require working outside of standard hours and extensive travel throughout the region, therefore flexibility is essential.
**Why choose us? **

Join us and you'll find an organisation that encourages and enables you to achieve your full potential. In return you will be rewarded with a full range of benefits including:
Company car or car allowance
Generous holiday allowance (starting at 30 days a year + Bank Holidays, plus 1 annual company day)
Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
Company funded health Cashplan
Health insurance
Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Performance-related pay
Competitive Pension and Life assurance
Access to interest-free loans for cars, bikes, season tickets and driving lessons
Employee Assistance program to help you deal with life's challenges
Discounts on new vehicles, holiday rentals, wellbeing and lifestyle and many more

**Who we are**

Every day, we're the voice of around 47,000 British farmers and growers who produce food, making sure their concerns are heard at the heart of government both online and locally. This means developing strong relationships with everyone from NFU colleagues to government ministers. So, as well as having a high profile in both the media and Westminster, we work with and support local members through a network of regional and county offices across England and Wales.
Our regional colleagues are the face of the NFU to local members, our focus is to understand their day-to-day concerns and influence the local and national agendas on their behalf. It's about developing strong working relationships with everyone from the members themselves to local councils, constituency MPs and national NFU teams.
Working regionally demands the flexibility to adapt to a variety of tasks, from recruiting and retaining members, to working with councils and other local agencies, or lobbying MPs. This diverse remit means we need to understand a wide range of farming, food, environmental and economic issues and be able to talk confidently about them with people at all levels.
**Join us**

We are committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce. We'll support you by providing you with extensive learning and development opportunities and build a career that balances your professional ambitions with your personal commitments including discussions around agile and flexible work options.
**You may have experience of the following**: Business Development Manager, Business Development Management, Business Development, BDM, Business Development Executive, Field Sales Executive, Field Sales Advisor, Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Territory Sales, Regional Sales, Payments Consultant, Payments Specialist, Door to Door sales, B2B Sales.

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