Business Development Manager

Walmsley Wilkinson; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmsley Wilkinson in Blackburn seeks a Business Development Manager to lead new business sales and manage key customer accounts across aerospace and automotive sectors. You will drive profitable growth, secure long lead time orders, and coordinate with internal teams to meet delivery targets.

The role involves building customer relationships, negotiating contracts, and guiding projects from concept to on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing and improving sales activity.
• Experience in aerospace or automotive OEMs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for new business development and customer account management.
• Drive sales and oversee on-time delivery of quality end products.
• Lead long lead-time projects and build strong relationships across operations.

Skills

New business development

Account management

Contract management

Project management

Customer engagement

Relationship building

Job description

We are retained exclusively by our client to appoint a talented Business Development Manager for this internationally owned, well established, entrepreneurial organisation which supplies its speciality products and services into a variety of industries including aerospace and automotive.

The role will be based at their Blackburn site when not travelling to visit UK & Ireland customers.

Taking responsibility for new business development and customer account management, this will be an all-encompassing commercial remit to drive sales whilst meeting customer needs and overseeing on time delivery of quality end products whilst often working on long lead time projects.

This therefore requires the skills of a “can do” individual who can focus on driving profitable new business sales, successful customer account management, excellent customer engagement, detailed contract / project management and with the ability to build strong collegiate and influencing relationships with all operational areas of the business.

The successful candidate will need to possess proven experience in developing and improving sales activity and will have ideally gained experience in developing customer relationships within the aerospace or automotive OEMs.

Ambition, hard work, strong ethics and best practice are essential with a commitment to professional standards, achieving customer satisfaction and driving new business wins.

This exciting opportunity offers the ability to make a meaningful contribution within a successful and stable group that has great potential for further revenue and profit growth. Working with an ambitious senior management team, the right individual could feasibly develop from BDM to a General Manager remit.

We welcome applications from talented Sales Managers, Sales Consultants, Business Development Executives and Account Managers, from an engineering or manufacturing B2B sales background who live within reasonable commuting distance of Blackburn ie Accrington, Burnley, Darwen, Nelson, Colne, Haslingden, Bury, Bolton, Preston, Leyland, Chorley, Wigan, Blackpool, Lancaster, Clitheroe