Business Development Lead

British Engineering Services Group; Manchester, Ilkeston; Hybride; GBP 43 000 - 53 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Company Pension Scheme

Annual salary review

Holiday allowance

Flexible working

EV salary sacrifice

Discounts & benefits

Wellbeing support

Volunteer scheme

Résumé du poste

British Engineering Services Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Business Development Lead to drive growth across Inspire Structures and Inspired Access. You will engage with clients, plan pre-tender activities, and steer opportunities from enquiry to contract award, including site visits and client engagement.

The role combines home-based work with office presence in Manchester or Ilkeston, offering a competitive salary and a suite of benefits in a dynamic, safety-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Level 3 qualification in Engineering/Surveying/Project Management or Bridge Inspection competency (e.g. BICS/STE4/STE7).
• Extensive experience within the specialist access sector (Roped Access Techniques).
• Hold IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• Extensive experience within infrastructure inspections, structural examinations, surveying environments and the specialist access/rope access sector, including experience with large scale roped access or suspended access systems
• Experienced and competent in the use of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience managing complex programmes of work and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• UK Driving License.

Responsabilités

• Identify opportunities, develop solutions and lead commercial discussions that convert client requirements into profitable contracts.
• Combine your technical knowledge with strong commercial awareness to take ownership of opportunities from initial enquiry through to successful contract award and operational handover.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective clients across the infrastructure sector.
• Prepare and present commercially competitive tenders, quotations and bids.
• Carry out pre-tender planning, desktop studies, site visits and client engagement activities.
• Present bid proposals at review meetings, providing clear recommendations on commercial, operational and technical considerations.

Connaissances

Rope access

Excel

Program management

UK Driving Licence

Infrastructure inspections

Formation

Level 3 qualification in Engineering/Surveying/PM or Bridge Inspection

IOSH Managing Safely

Outils

Excel

Description du poste

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LEAD

NATIONWIDE

£48,000

Who we arein a nutshell.

At British Engineering Services Group, we pride ourselves on being the leading end‑to‑end risk management solutions provider in the UK and Ireland. Our job is to help keep our customers’ assets legally compliant, operationaland, above all, safe. We achieve this by bringing together a team of thevery bestand most talented people.

Our infrastructure division plays a vital role in safeguarding critical civil infrastructure across the UK and beyond. Through Inspire Structures, our specialist teams deliver high‑precision inspections and engineering solutions for assets including rail,highwayand airside structures. Using a wide range of specialist access techniques, including rope access, confined space entry, underwaterinspectionsand drone surveys,we’reable to safely inspect and assess even the most challenging locations, providing our customers with reliable insight into the condition and integrity of their assets.

Inspired Access Solutions works with its customers to support them with rope access and innovative suspended access systems for challenging structures.

This role requires a combination of homebased working and working from one of our offices – Manchester or Ilkeston.

What will you be doing?

Inspire Structures and Inspired Access are seeking two commercially focused Business Development Leads to support the growth of our structural inspection and specialist access workstreams.

As a Business Development Lead for Inspire, part of British Engineering Services Group, you will work closely with clients, operational teams and the wider supplier chain to drive the growth of our infrastructure investigation, inspection, enabling and specialist access services.

You will:

• Identify opportunities, develop solutions and lead commercial discussions that convert client requirements into profitable contracts.
• Combine your technical knowledge with strong commercial awareness to take ownership of opportunities from initial enquiry through to successful contract award and operational handover.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective clients across the infrastructure sector.
• Prepare and present commercially competitive tenders, quotations and bids.
• Carry out pre-tender planning, desktop studies, site visits and client engagement activities.
• Present bid proposals at review meetings, providing clear recommendations on commercial, operational and technical considerations.

As part of our team, you will get:

• Asalary of up to £48,000 depending on experience
• Company Pension Scheme
• Annual salary review
• 22 days holiday rising to 25 days after 2 years' service and 28 days after 5 years' service.
• An extra day’s holiday to take on Christmas Eve each year
• Access to our holidaybuyscheme
• Opportunity for flexible working
• Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts and savings via our employee benefits portal
• Health and wellbeing support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Company widevolunteering scheme

To join our team, you will need:

• Level 3 qualification in Engineering/Surveying/Project Management or Bridge Inspection competency (e.g. BICS/STE4/STE7).
• Extensive experience within the specialist access sector (Roped Access Techniques)
• Hold IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• Extensive experience within infrastructure inspections, structural examinations, surveying environments and the specialist access/rope access sector, including experience with large scale roped access or suspended access systems
• Experienced and competent in the use of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience managing complex programmes of work and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• UK Driving License.

We want you to be you!

Diversity,equalityand inclusion are fundamental to who we are.
Our team is made up of incredibly skilled and talented people, andthat’swhat matters most to us. At British Engineering Services Group, we want everyone to feel they can be their true, authentic selves at work.

We’realso proud to support the military community through our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant.

British Engineering Services Group, where our people and our customers matter most.