Business Development Manager

Aspion Search; Essex; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

25 days’ annual leave

Pension with matched contributions

Death-in-service cover

Job summary

Aspion Search is recruiting a Field Sales professional to cover Essex and East Anglia on a home-based basis with regional travel. You will own commercial activity, managing existing accounts and winning new business with OEMs and manufacturers.

The role combines technical understanding with consultative selling, requiring strong stakeholder engagement and a proactive sales approach. You will drive growth through product solutions, manage multiple projects and maintain a robust sales pipeline.

Qualifications

• Three years’ experience in technical or OEM sales or B2B technical environments.
• Proven ability to develop new business and grow key accounts.
• Comfortable delivering consultative, specification-led sales presentations.

Responsibilities

• Grow regional sales and profitability through new business and key account development.
• Identify OEMs and engineering businesses across Essex and East Anglia.
• Build relationships with Design Engineers, R&D teams, Buyers and procurement professionals.
• Understand customer applications and future component requirements.
• Manage sales projects from concept through to production and delivery.
• Maintain accurate pipelines, forecasts, and regional market intelligence.
• Collaborate with product, technical and customer-service teams to support customers.

Skills

Technical sales

Account management

Consultative selling

Communication

Negotiation

Presentation

Travel readiness

Job description

Essex & East Anglia – Field/Home-Based | Regional Travel

Territory: SS, CM, CO, IP, NR

Company & Job Overview

A leading international manufacturer of electronic components is expanding its UK sales team to support continued growth across Essex and East Anglia. Supplying a broad portfolio of components and engineered solutions to OEMs and manufacturers, the business supports product design and development across diverse industrial and technology-led markets.

The Business Development Manager will take commercial ownership of the territory, developing established key accounts while identifying and converting new business opportunities. Working consultatively with Design Engineers, R&D teams, Buyers and Procurement professionals, the successful candidate will manage technical component sales projects from initial specification and design-in through to production and ongoing supply.

Success will be driven by profitable territory growth, new customer acquisition, account development and the conversion of long-term technical project pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow regional sales and profitability through new business, key account development and electronic component design-in opportunities.
• Identify and target OEMs, manufacturers and engineering businesses across Essex and East Anglia.
• Build strong commercial relationships with Design Engineers, R&D teams, Buyers, Procurement professionals and technical decision-makers.
• Understand customers’ applications, product-development plans and future component requirements.
• Recommend technically relevant component solutions aligned with customer specifications and commercial objectives.
• Manage technical sales projects from concept and specification through to design-in, production and delivery.
• Develop existing key accounts through new applications, projects and cross-selling opportunities.
• Reactivate dormant accounts and convert high-potential prospects into long-term customers.
• Maintain accurate sales pipelines, forecasts, activity reports and regional market intelligence.
• Work closely with internal product, technical and customer-service teams to provide effective customer support.

Person Specification

• At least three years’ experience in technical sales, engineering sales, component sales, OEM sales or a related B2B technical environment.
• Proven success in developing new business and growing existing key accounts within a defined sales territory.
• Comfortable delivering consultative, specification-led sales presentations to OEMs, manufacturers and product-development teams.
• Experience working with Design Engineers, R&D, Procurement, Buyers and other technical stakeholders.
• An understanding of component specification, design-in sales or long-term product-development cycles would be advantageous.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation and relationship-management skills.
• Proactive, commercially focused and able to manage a regional territory with a high degree of autonomy.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout Essex and East Anglia.
• Up to £50,000 basic salary, dependent on experience.
• Realistic Year 1 OTE of £65,000+, with increasing earning potential as the territory develops.
• Guaranteed commission for the first six months.
• Monthly commission scheme with accelerated earnings for overperformance.
• Additional year-end bonus.
• Company car.
• 25 days’ annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days.
• Pension with company-matched contributions up to 10%.
• Death-in-service cover
• 24/7 GP service, travel insurance and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Field/home-based working with autonomy to manage the regional territory.

This position would suit an experienced Technical Sales Engineer, Regional Sales Manager, Business Development Manager or Technical Account Manager seeking a commercially rewarding role within electronic components and OEM sales.