Lighting & Renewables Manager

Company Description

Are you an experienced lighting professional looking for a new opportunity?

Rexel UK are currently looking for a Lighting & Renewables Solutions Manager

Regular travel to Birmingham and Bromsgrove offices required.

As a global leader in electrical wholesale, Rexel distributes advanced electrical and energy-efficient products worldwide. We deliver smart, sustainable solutions engineered to enhance comfort, safety, and security across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.

The Benefits of a Career with Rexel: 

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Private Medical 
• Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme
• Time Off: 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!) 
• You can also buy and sell holiday each year 
• Enhanced parental leave 
• Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one. 
• Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance/Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more! 
• Perks: Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education 

Job Description

Rexel UK are looking for a proactive experienced lighting professional to head up our Lighting Solutions Team.

This is a hands-on commercial role with real impact: you’ll develop and run a team of Lighting Designers and Business Development Managers with a remit to develop and grow this important business stream for Rexel UK.

Key Accountabilities:

• Build and develop a team of Lighting Designers and Lighting BDM’s.
• Lead a team to target both new and existing customers to develop new Lighting Design projects.
• Lead a team that will present technical product solutions with clarity and confidence to customers, branches and internal stakeholders.
• Lead a team that will provide technical support and guidance to customers and branch colleagues.
• Communicate market trends, customer insights and opportunities back into the business. Identify and develop strategic partner customers by geography and market segment.
• Encourage and promote training and CPD to customers to strengthen relationships and product adoption.

Qualifications

At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles, the behaviours that will set you up for success within this role include:

COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives 

HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY – holds self and others accountable to meet commitments

CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP – Creating new customer partnerships with multi dimensional relationships for strategic insight for future opportunity

DRIVES RESULTS - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances

INFLUENCES - using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others

BUILDS NETWORKS - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organisation

What we’re looking for… 

• Experience in the Lighting Industry
• Aptitude for leading a developing a team into a market leading position
• Confident to talk to customer partners about Rexels offer plan and value add services.
• Strong technical understanding of Lighting products and installation requirements.
• Proven experience developing a sales pipeline and achieving area sales targets.
• Commercially focused with experience of managing CPM and supplier relationships.
• Confident presenter and communicator with the ability to influence both technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, organised and able to work collaboratively with branch networks and cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

At Rexel UK, we’re all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results.

By coming together as one team, we’re building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities.

Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.