Business Development Director – Regional Housebuilders

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Drive the growth of new business throughout Scotland and the North of England.

• Identify, target, and secure new business opportunities with regional housebuilders and developers.

• Cultivate influential relationships with company owners, directors, commercial teams, project managers, and site-based colleagues.

• Establish Jewson as a strategic partner by demonstrating products, expertise, supply chain capabilities, and tailored solutions.

• Collaborate with Project Estimators to provide competitive quotations, pricing, and value-engineered solutions.

• Develop commercial propositions aimed at enhancing efficiency, managing costs, and supporting successful projects.

• Create and nurture a pipeline of new business opportunities.

• Lead commercial negotiations and secure new contracts that drive revenue and margin growth.

• Foster internal relationships across branches, sales, estimating, logistics, and suppliers.

• Oversee the customer journey from initial engagement through opportunity development, negotiation, onboarding, and delivery.

• Identify market opportunities, understand competitor activities, and devise strategies to enhance Jewson’s presence in the regional housebuilder sector.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven history of securing new business and achieving notable commercial growth within a B2B context.

• Collaborative mindset, capable of uniting internal teams, suppliers, and external stakeholders without direct line management authority.

• Experience in construction, housebuilding, building materials, or a related industry is desirable.

• Outstanding influencing and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Ability to quickly build credibility, establish trust, and develop relationships across diverse professional backgrounds.

• Confident communicator, able to adjust communication style and gain buy-in from senior decision-makers and operational teams.

• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to translate customer challenges into effective business solutions.

• Excellent negotiation and presentation skills.

• Capacity to take ownership and accountability for the customer journey.

• Self-motivated, resilient, and tenacious.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously across a wide geographical area.

• Willingness to travel extensively throughout Scotland and the North of England.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Basic Salary.

• Performance Related Bonus.

• 34 days of holiday per year.

• Company car or Cash out option.

• Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) with Legal & General.

• Life Assurance.

• Work Perks – A platform offering hundreds of your favorite high street and online discounts via Reward Gateway.

• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation).

• Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover.

• Refer a Friend scheme.

• Wellbeing Centre via Work Perks.

• Apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs.

• Reasonable adjustments throughout the application and interview process.