Customer Development Manager Repco

**_Showcase your love for all things automotive & your sales skills, by providing exceptional sales & service experiences for our trade customers._**

**Repco** is Australia's leader in Automotive Aftermarket Parts and has the most widely recognised brands in the market. Our brand stands for quality, expertise and knowledge. Every day we deliver careers and experiences that are both challenging and rewarding. We have fun at work and celebrate our achievements and milestones, big and small. We foster an environment where we focus on results and continuous improvement and our people share our passion.

**About the opportunity**:
A fantastic opportunity has become available as a **Customer Development Manager Repco Automotive**for the **Southern Gold Coast QLD / Northern Rivers NSW**.

With direction from your Channel Manager and working alongside the local Repco Store Managers you will build effective, productive business relationships with our target customers utilizing our newly introduced CRM Platform and best in class promotional activity.

Through these relationships, you will understand our customer’s needs, proactively solve their problems, and identify areas to grow their share of spend with Repco. You are ultimately responsible for the sales and gross margin performance of your territory of approximately 150 Customers.

**All about you**:
To be successful in this role you will have an interest in the automotive industry, along with sales and/or customer management experience (automotive industry preferred). You will thrive on achieving KPI's and targets, and you'll love working in a dynamic environment within a high-performance sales team and customer first culture.

**In addition, you will also**:

- Attend and participate in sales meetings, trade shows & training sessions.
- Achieve sales budgets through a proactive and innovative approach
- Ability to liaise and build relationships with customers and company stakeholders.
- Experience using CRM systems
- A valid Australian driver's licence is required
- A passion for all things automotive

**Looking after you**:
We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked after. In addition to a rewarding and challenging career, we will provide:

- Tools of Trade including late model vehicle, mobile phone & laptop
- Sales & Product training
- Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
- Private health insurance discounts
- Employee assistance program
- A highly safety conscious work environment
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
- Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

**Your environment**:
Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is the Global Leader in automotive aftermarket parts distribution, encompassing a number of significant international businesses in countries including USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our Asia Pacific businesses include our iconic Repco Australia & New Zealand Store Network, NAPA Australia, AMX, Sparesbox. GPC Asia Pacific is an equal opportunity employer.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.