Business Development Manager

Round-Peg Solutions (RPS); Farnborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace solutions provider seeks a Business Development Manager in Farnborough to drive international growth across advanced engineering technologies. You'll develop new market strategies and manage key customer relationships, ensuring profitable business development. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in aerospace, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to collaborate with technical teams. This role provides a clear path to senior management within the company, offering an opportunity to shape the future of the business.

Qualifications

• Proven international business development experience in aerospace, defence, or advanced engineering.
• Ability to negotiate and close profitable new business deals.
• Experience with technically complex products and lengthy sales cycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute international growth strategy for sensor portfolio.
• Open new market routes with aerospace and defence customers.
• Lead the capture process from opportunity identification to contract award.

Skills

International business development

Negotiation

Commercial acumen

Technical product knowledge

Strong presentation skills

Job description

Are you a Business Development Manager ready to build new, high-tech markets rather than defend old ones?

Are you looking for a role with a defined progression plan into a Business Unit Manager after only 18 months?

Do you want ownership of international growth across advanced engineering technologies?

This is a genuinely rare, unique opportunity offering a highly ambitious Business Development Manager to take full ownership of defining the growth strategy and repositioning the business into new and emerging high-tech markets, growing international sales across a portfolio of advanced, highly-engineered products. Success here will see you promoted into a Business Unit Manager role after 18 months, while building towards a President-level role (68% of all Transdigm presidents have historically come from Business Unit Manager roles!)

Our exclusive client Auxitrol Weston (part of the TransDigm Group) designs and manufactures advanced sensors used in Aerospace & Defence applications across global programmes. The Farnborough site supports customers worldwide through in-house engineering, environmental test facilities and advanced manufacturing, delivering highly reliable products for demanding operating environments.

You will expand the business into new markets such as drones, UAVs and industrial power rather than relying on legacy programmes. You will be a key driver of growth within TransDigm, a group with a proven track record of building high value aerospace businesses and promoting leaders from within.

As the Business Development Manager your responsibilities will include:

• Developing a clear international growth strategy across the sensor portfolio
• Opening new routes to market with aerospace, defence and emerging technology customers
• Leading the full capture process from opportunity identification through to contract award
• Building and managing relationships with customers, users and commercial partners
• Maintaining accurate forecasts, capture plans and sales pipelines

As the Business Development Manager you will bring:

• A strong record of international business development in aerospace, defence or advanced engineering
• The ability to identify, negotiate and close profitable new business
• Commercial and financial acumen with strong presentation capability
• Experience working with technically complex products and long sales cycles
• The confidence to influence customers, partners and internal teams

This Farnborough based role offers a unique chance for a Business Development Manager to shape the future growth of a highly specialised aerospace business while building a clear path into senior leadership within TransDigm.

All successful applicants will be contacted within two working days.

Business Development Manager • Farnborough, England, United Kingdom