Applying for Business Manager/Director

Full-time/Permanent
External role based from home-office

Are you an experienced Business Manager who knows how to identify opportunities, win new business, and grow existing customer relationships?

An entrepreneurial thinker who enjoys turning ideas and opportunities into measurable results?

Stowlin Ltd is seeking an experienced and commercially minded Business Manager/Director to join our leadership team, and play a key role in driving the continued growth of inorganic chemicals and Henkel metal pretreatment range.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic leader who can combine commercial insight with strong operational management, by building effective relationships, and identifying opportunities for sustainable business growth.

Depending on your level of experience, you may be considered for a Business Manager position, however this can be a developing role into a Business Director.

What you’ll be doing…

Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Corporate Development you will be providing strategic leadership across the business, with responsibility for developing commercial opportunities by:

• Managing and driving a hungry sales team.

• Engaging regularly with suppliers and customers.

• Building relationships with purchasing and technical contacts.

• Supporting customers with technical support as required.

• Working closely with equipment partners to enhance sales.

• Producing weekly summaries for weekly management meetings which include sales, margin forecast vs previous year and budget.

• Producing annual budgets for Stowlin business.

• Ongoing analysis of the business and strategising future growth.

• Developing new supply chains.

• Developing new markets.

• Developing new Stowlin brands.

Your background…

Must have…

• Ability to prioritize workload and multitask

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• A self-starter who is able to work to deadlines

• Able to adapt quickly to changing market conditions

• Ability to use own initiative as well as being a team player

• Ability to build strong and lasting relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• IT skills in Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/D365

• Strong negotiation skills

Nice to have…

• Previous experience in chemical distribution

• Previous sales experience in a commercial role

• Proven track record of managing and driving growth in a business.

• Experience dealing with both internal and external suppliers and customers

A bit about us…

Stowlin, with over 75 years of experience, supplies high-quality cleaning and process chemicals from its Midlands base. With a national delivery fleet and strong brand partnerships, we serve a wide range of industries—from powder coating to aerospace—ensuring our customers receive reliable and innovative chemical solutions.