The Business Development Excellence Director is a central leadership role responsible for driving a consistent, group-wide approach to business development across Culina. The role leads the development of best-in-class business development processes, market intelligence, commercial strategy support, bid management, and capability building to improve sales effectiveness and enable sustainable growth across the Group., Business Development Process & Capability Development

Develop, maintain, and standardise business development enablement materials, including business case templates, proposal templates, and core sales tools.
Create and maintain the BD Excellence knowledge base, ensuring materials are accurate, accessible, and regularly updated.
Develop and embed standardised methodologies, guidelines, and best practices across Culina's business development teams.
Champion capability building by designing and rolling out training programmes across Culina sales teams.
Lead ongoing industry trend analysis and customer insight development to inform business development priorities.
Lead the annual customer segmentation process, including validating business unit segmentation approaches and identifying priority growth opportunities.
Initiate and lead transformational business development projects that strengthen competitive position and commercial performance.
Define customer segmentation frameworks and lead scoring guidelines to support prioritisation and consistent pipeline management.
Work with commercial leads to establish clear pricing and commercial policy guidelines that support consistent, informed decision-making.
Provide standardised business case and approval templates to improve governance, quality, and speed of decision-making.
Lead the development of the Group's business development strategy by identifying growth opportunities, setting targets, and constructively challenging business unit strategies.
Promote a customer-centric approach and actively support key account management initiatives across the Group.
Lead and develop a bid management team to support large-scale tender activity
Ensure a consistent, high-quality approach to RFI, RFQ, and tender submissions
Assess current BD capabilities and conduct skills mapping across the organisation
Design and implement structured training and coaching programmes
Facilitate knowledge sharing, best practice forums, and BD community engagement initiatives

Significant experience in sales operations or enablement
Deep understanding of end-to-end sales processes and managing the bid process for RFI and RFQ tenders
Strong analytical and research capability
Excellent project and programme management skills in supporting the bid process
Familiarity and experience in the UK logistics market

Culina Group is a leading UK 3rd party food & drinks logistics provider offering dedicated and shared user warehousing and distribution solutions.

Annual Leave - Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays
Life Assurance - x 4 your annual salary
Wellness - Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
Eye Care Vouchers - We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
Reward & Recognition - We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!

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