Business Development Manager - Rapid Grocery Delivery
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Whitefield Road, Speedwell, Bristol, BS5 7TJ |
| Company: | Booker Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 26228 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic business developer to play a pivotal role in growing our rapid grocery delivery network across the South West. You’ll work alongside a talented team of BDMs and RDMs, supporting our symbol partners as they embrace and grow within the rapid delivery market.
Your role won’t just be about numbers - it’ll be about building strong, lasting partnerships, identifying growth opportunities, and helping retailers thrive in a digital-first world.
About Scoot
Scoot is transforming the way communities shop, offering an innovative rapid grocery delivery platform designed to keep up with today’s on-demand lifestyles. Backed by Booker Group and supporting symbol brands like Premier, Londis, Budgens, and Family Shopper, we’re on a mission to help local retailers thrive in the fast-evolving grocery landscape.
As we continue to expand, we’re looking for a commercially driven eCommerce Business Development Manager to join our team, someone who can combine entrepreneurial flair with operational know how to unlock growth and make a genuine impact on independent retail businesses.
This role will be covering South Wales, Cornwall, Devon South West.
- Growing the Network: Proactively identify, recruit, and onboard top-performing symbol stores that align with our vision and criteria.
- Driving Performance: Achieve and exceed KPIs by developing tailored sales and marketing strategies to increase order volume, average basket value, and profitability via the Scoot platform.
- Building Partnerships: Develop trusted, productive relationships with our retailers, providing ongoing support, insights, and guidance to help them grow.
- Using Data to Unlock Growth: Analyse sales, delivery performance, and customer data to identify trends and create actionable growth strategies for each store.
- Problem-Solving Collaboratively: Work closely with internal teams and retailers to address operational challenges and enhance the Scoot experience for both retailers and customers.
- Championing Best Practice: Share learnings and successes with your BDM colleagues, helping to shape and refine our national approach.
- Staying Ahead of the Market: Keep up to date with the rapid grocery delivery landscape, bringing fresh ideas and sector intelligence to drive continuous improvement.
- Grocery Retail Expertise: You know the grocery sector inside out and have a track record of driving commercial success in retail or wholesale environments.
- Strong Stakeholder Management: Experienced in building high-impact relationships with business owners, managers, and decision-makers in B2B settings.
- Data-Led Decision Making: Confident in managing KPIs, business metrics, and using insights to fuel strategy and performance conversations.
- Exceptional Communicator: Clear, concise, and engaging whether you’re presenting results, influencing a retailer, or collaborating with internal teams.
- Natural Relationship Builder: Able to quickly establish trust, credibility, and rapport with a wide range of people.
- Proactive & Solutions-Focused: Self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude and a knack for spotting opportunities and solving problems.
- Sector Knowledge: Familiar with the rapid grocery delivery landscape and the challenges and opportunities it presents for independent retailers.