Account Manager – UK & Ireland

About the Company: 

Join us in transforming urban living! Brompton Bicycle is more than just a company – we’re a community of innovators who are passionate about changing the world, one bike at a time. Our bikes are not just a means of transportation – they’re a reflection of our values, creativity, and commitment to excellence. 

With over 16 million possible combinations of gears, colours, handlebars, and accessories, we’re all about giving our customers the power to create their own personalized Brompton bike. And we’re not stopping there – in the past 36 months, we’ve invested in new facilities, transformed our digital presence, opened new flagship stores, and launched our biggest product line ever!  

To keep changing the game, we need talented, innovative, and passionate people who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo and make a real impact. Our bikes are already recognised as the finest of their kind, and our mission to provide a sustainable solution to the world is where it begins but we are just getting started! 

The Role 

We are looking for an Account Manager role in our largest market, where to date Brompton has achieved great success. The potential for future growth remains substantial and is a primary, strategic focus for the business. This is a critical, exciting and varied commercial role, developing and selling to our established accounts, where you will proactively ensure successful rollout and sales results of all Brompton models, and further existing pipeline innovation. 

The Account Manager plays a vital role in the Brompton UK Sales team, reporting directly to the UK Sales Manager. The role carries a high degree of autonomy, focusing on delivering significant growth for Brompton’s accounts, including regional chain stores and the network of independent bicycle retailers (trading with some of these for over 20 years).

This is a role for someone who is looking to progress their sales career; a role they are already sure-footed in, and who is excited by the potential of a long-term commitment to this fast-growing British success story. 

Responsibilities 

• Delivering on budgeted sales targets for all Brompton products across your retail network 
• Build relationships with key senior contacts and customers, to gain clear understanding of their businesses, requirements and objectives, to ensure sales metrics are met, expectations exceeded and opportunities exploited 
• Identifying and developing new routes to market including Click & Collect, and B2C 
• Identifying and resolving customer concerns 
• Creating suitable strategies for dealing with obstacles, customer objections and competitor situations 
• To identify opportunities that require additional support and resource 
• To represent the company at trade exhibitions, events, demonstrations and seminars 
• Set up and organise events with retailers & businesses 
• To build annual business plans for your accounts, reviewing monthly and reporting to Brompton Management team 
• Forecasting, planning and delivering on sales targets 
• Develop a12 month rolling sales forecast/pipeline plan for your retail customers in accordance with sales objectives 
• Monitoring and reporting your performance through monthly KPIs against budget and annual business/ marketing plan 
• Performing statistical analysis and assess actuals vs forecasting 
• To communicate new product and service opportunities, special developments 

Personal Requirements 

• Provable track record in comparable Sales/Key Account Management role, at least 2-3 years’ experience 
• Ambitious and results focussed 
• Strong sales, commercial, and customer service skills 
• Market aware and commercially focussed 
• Fluent written and spoken English  
• The role will require significant travel, a valid driving licence is essential 

We offer a range of benefits to our employees that make working at Brompton Bicycle even more rewarding. Here is a snapshot of what we offer:

• Competitive salary plus 15% performance related bonus 
• Take time off to recharge and enjoy life with 20 days of holiday increasing with each years of service plus public holidays.
• We offer hybrid working and a every 4th Friday off, so you can strike the perfect work-life balance that suits you.
• As an employee, you’ll have your own loan Brompton to ride, so you can explore your local area on two wheels.
• Finally, we offer friends and family discounts on Brompton products, so you can share the love and help spread the joy of cycling to those you care about.