Business Development Manager

Pure Ingredients, part of the IXOM Group, is a premium supplier of quality raw materials for the Beauty, Personal Care, Home Care, and Natural Health sectors in New Zealand. We help our customers to create exciting, innovative products that enhance and protect our everyday lives.

The Pure Ingredients commitment to service and quality defines who we are and our partnerships with clients and suppliers are at the heart of everything we do.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our dedicated and energetic team to continue this vision.

About your role

In this role, you will own, manage, and maintain customer relationships, striving to understand their needs to drive growth and secure new business. You will have a big impact delivering responsive account management and exceptional customer service.

You will also foster industry brand awareness by establishing relationships in key accounts and industry bodies in key markets through maintaining senior level contact.

The role is part of the leadership team for the Pure Ingredients business, taking responsibility for the business performance, planning and execution of growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimise Returns for Pure Ingredients: driving the achievement of profitability targets for our customer base and segment
• Provide market intelligence to inform pricing, product plans and industry strategies
• Ensure that company revenue and gross margin targets are achieved
• Own, manage and maintain customer accounts
• Support Customer Services, including customer queries, entering sales orders, technical support and working with internal teams to ensure order fulfilment and delivery

Who are we looking for?

• Experience in B2B sales (experience in Health and Personal Care industries would be an advantage
• Experience in using CRM systems
• Negotiation and influencing skills and ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• Marketing and analysis experience would be advantageous

Benefits at Pure Ingredients

For a start, you'll be part of a large global organisation, where you'll not only earn a competitive salary, but you'll also have access to an Employee Assistance Program, a recognition program, and a range of health and wellness benefits and discounts. 

Our wellbeing program is second to none, and we offer a range of education assistance and learning resources, as well as secondment and promotion opportunities to help you grow both personally and professionally. 

We support what’s important to you by promoting workplace giving, diversity and providing volunteering leave, and, of course, we offer flexible working wherever possible. 

To Apply

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Our Process

At Pure Ingredients we are committed to employing individuals who align with our values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants’ suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, and reference checks.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact our Talent Acquisition team.