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