Job Title: Business Developer Location: West Midlands or Essex Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 (D.O.E) The Role: The Business Developer will be responsible for maintaining and growing relationships with existing customers, building new customer relationships, identifying business opportunities, and preparing proposals for potential customer projects. Your Responsibilities: Maintain and develop relationships within the existing customer base, as well as establishing relationships with new customers beyond the current base. Identify new business opportunities for our client, including entering new industries. Develop and provide quotations for customer projects. Key Account Management: Responsible for developing extended relationships within key accounts and ensuring successful project delivery. Your Profile: Essential: Degree-level technical education. Previous experience in engineering projects within the automotive industry, including electrification or related decarbonisation topics. Strong customer focus and ability to resolve customer concerns to mutual satisfaction. Ability to independently scope and calculate project requirements with input from technical teams and senior management. Skilled in preparing project proposals, presenting them to customers, and conducting follow-up negotiations. Awareness of future challenges faced by customers and the ability to identify how our client can support in addressing these challenges. Strong planning, prioritising, and coordinating skills, with minimal guidance. Willingness to travel and a flexible, adaptable nature. Excellent communication skills, both with customers and colleagues. Strong interpersonal skills and excellent written English. Preferable: Previous experience with engineering projects outside of the automotive industry. Experience in working in a consultancy environment with multiple customers. Familiarity with our client’s market presence both locally and globally. Experience with sales tools and software, such as Salesforce. Foreign language skills to assist with internal/external networking