If you’re ready to represent a premium brand that is innovating, expanding, and setting new standards in safety footwear, then this is your opportunity to take ownership of a major territory and play a key part in the next chapter of V12.
The Opportunity
We are V12 Footwear, a UK-based safety footwear brand renowned for our innovation in comfort, safety and durability. Since 1998, we’ve been providing safety footwear that’s trusted across some of the most demanding industries, such as Oil and Gas, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Transportation.
We are looking for a driven, proactive Business Development Manager to unlock new opportunities, strengthen end-user relationships, and accelerate adoption of our products across the Southern region of the UK.
Your Role
As Business Development Manager, your focus will be driving new business acquisition by actively hunting end‑user opportunities, deepening customer engagement, managing trials and building relationships with key decision-makers.
You will collaborate closely with the Key Account Manager and Sales Support to identify, develop and convert end-user opportunities, driving pull-through demand and supporting our distribution partners with high-quality leads.
Key Responsibilities
- Continually hunting for new business
- Building strong relationships with target decision makers
- Converting prospects into active users
- Mapping end-user potential with strategic insight
- Managing trials
- Maintaining a healthy pipeline and ensuring the CRM is kept up to date
- Collaborating with Key Account Managers
- Assisting distributors with opportunities
- Providing product training and demonstrations where required.
What You Bring
We’re looking for someone is energetic, commercial, and hungry to win. You’ll thrive in a hybrid environment (part office-based, part field-based) and motivated by the challenge of converting new end-user opportunities into long-term customers.
- Field sales experience in PPE, tools, industrial products, or similar technical environments
- Proven track record of winning new business
- Strong communicator with excellent relationship building capability
- High energy, proactive mindset, comfortable with hunting
Our Values
- Mutual Respect - Have respect for everyone, their time, their decisions and their feelings.
- Step up – always looking for ways to step up in our individual roles and as a team.
- Think team – who do I need to involve to expedite success in my activities
- Own it – take responsibility for our decisions and actions and see them through.
- Get Stuff Done - Effective prioritisation for maximum efficiency and meeting deadlines.
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