Customer Development Manager Napa Canberra

**_Showcase your love for all things automotive & your sales skills, by providing exceptional sales & service experiences for our trade customers._**
- ** Engage & Develop exceptional Customer Relationships**:

- ** Attractive Base Salary + Super + Attractive Incentive Structure**:

- ** Car + Mobile Phone + Laptop + Staff Discounts**

**About Us**

**NAPA** is Australia and New Zealand’s largest and newest name in automotive aftermarket parts. We’re on an exciting journey to revolutionise the Australian automotive aftermarket sector - and we’re accelerating Our vast national network delivers solutions in: Trade, Industrial, wholesale and mining and is proudly supported by 100 years of industry expertise.

**About the opportunity**:
A fantastic opportunity has become available as a **Customer Development Manager** for the **Canberra** region.

With direction from both your Channel Manager and the Branch Managers at the NAPAs that you support, you will build effective, productive relationships with our target customers. Through these relationships, you will understand our customers needs, proactively solve their problems, and identify areas to grow their basket with NAPA. You are ultimately responsible for the sales and gross margin performance of your territory.

**All about you**:
You're an engaging professional with a genuine passion for delivering solutions and exceptional service. You'll bring a proven track record in business development or account management within the parts and equipment market. Your comfort in acquiring new accounts, combined with your strong communication and negotiation skills, will be key to forging lasting partnerships. If you're a team player with a drive to excel, you'll thrive in this role.

**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

**About us**: Movement is in our DNA. We are GPC Asia Pacific: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco, NAPA, McLeod Accessories and Motion Industries.

Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.

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.