Business Development Manager
Permanent Position
Excellent salary/package (Holiday: 25 days + 8 Statutory Days, 10% Pension, Bonus scheme)
Loughborough
My client is a global Aerospace manufacturing business, based in Loughborough. The Business Development Manager provides significant business development expertise in sourcing, targeting, and winning new business by identifying and building solid, high-level relationships with existing and potential new customers. This role manages the entire sales cycle to ensure revenue is in line with organization and individual targets.
Business Development Manager Job Description
* Research and develop a detailed and thorough understanding of the competitive landscape and customers’ requirements to ensure that all sales opportunities are fully explored and captured.
* Build, manage, and maintain a substantial pipeline of potential sales and ensure that all pipeline activity is accurately documented and kept up to date. Build business cases for the targeted elements of the pipeline and win strategies to deliver the business case.
* Win sales and orders, obtain new contracts, and meet (and exceed) sales targets and profit and growth objectives.
* Manage bids for new work including both technical and business content and make pricing recommendations.
* Create, prepare, and deliver in a timely and organized manner, professional responses to tenders and requests for proposals, presentations, contracts, and other documentation.
* Lead and coordinate negotiations with customers.
* Work closely with Program Management and Customer Services to ensure customers receive an effective handover from sales/business development to day-to-day running of the account.
* Develop and produce quarterly and annual sales/orders reports, key performance indicators, and communicate within the business. Compose and distribute minutes of meetings held to coordinate and progress sales activities.
Business Development Manager Essential Skills / Experience / Qualifications
* Well-versed working in a similar Business Development Manager role
* Minimum of 5 years’ experience selling technical products to aerospace customers
* Experience drafting bids/tenders
* Service-driven ethic, enthusiastic, and curious
Business Development Manager Company Benefits
* Bonus
* 10% pension
* 25 days plus bank holidays
* Discount at retailers, coffee shops, cinema, etc.
* Life Assurance
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