About the role

Metro Painting Group is looking for an experienced Business Development Manager /Estimator to take ownership of the residential sales pipeline while also developing current business opportunities across Brisbane and South East Queensland. You will step into an established pipeline already generating qualified opportunities through paid advertising, repeat business and industry relationships. Your job is to attend appointments, understand projects, measure and scope the work, produce and present proposals on site, and close sales.

Proposals are produced and presented while you are with the customer, not days later.

Key responsibilities

- Take responsibility for the sales process from qualified appointment through to signed contract
- Meet with customers at site visits to understand their requirements and inspect areas requiring work
- Use a laser measure to accurately measure projects and enter measurements, scope information, notes and project details into company-provided iPad
- Produce estimates and professional proposals during site visits using Metro Painting Group's estimating and proposal software
- Present proposals directly to customers, explain scope and pricing, answer questions, handle objections and ask for the business
- Make genuine attempts to close projects during site visits rather than simply sending proposals
- Maintain ownership of opportunities and follow them through until won or genuinely lost
- Continuously develop additional sources of business through proactive prospecting, networking, referrals and relationship building
- Develop relationships with real estate agencies, property managers, strata and body corporate contacts, property professionals, past customers and referral partners




- Convert opportunities from company-generated appointments while creating additional pipeline of your own

About you

- Genuine sales track record is essential with demonstrated personal sales performance, targets and conversion rates
- Hands-on experience within trades, construction, renovation or property industries is highly regarded
- Enough onsite knowledge and confidence to inspect a property, understand scope, communicate credibly with customers and learn to accurately estimate painting projects
- Comfortable selling face to face in customers' homes and on commercial sites
- Able to ask directly for sales, handle objections, negotiate and take accurate measurements
- Comfortable working with project scopes, using iPad and cloud-based software, managing multiple opportunities and following up consistently
- Accountable for your own sales performance
- Valid driver's licence and reliable vehicle required for regular travel throughout Brisbane and South East Queensland including Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Ipswich

About us Metro Painting Group is continuing to grow across residential, commercial and property maintenance painting throughout Brisbane and South East Queensland. We are building a dedicated sales function to take ownership of the residential pipeline, improve the customer experience from initial appointment through to contract and continue developing new sources of business.

Benefits

- Company iPad for estimating, measurements, CRM and proposals
- Company mobile phone
- Metro Painting Group's estimating and proposal software
- CRM and sales systems
- Qualified appointments generated through company marketing
- Administrative support
- Project management and delivery support
- Vehicle allowance

📌 Business Development Manager / Estimator (Brisbane)
🏢 Metro Painting Group
📍 Brisbane