Project sales Growth

Front Door Defense; Heanor; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Fuel card

Private healthcare

Life assurance

28 days leave

Perks and discounts

Career progression

Job summary

Rehlko is recruiting a Business Development Manager to drive new business growth across the UK, focusing on proactive prospecting and relationship building. You will promote services, manage opportunities, and achieve revenue targets while maintaining CRM discipline.

The role requires 3+ years in field sales or BD management, strong communicator skills, and the ability to work autonomously across a wide territory. A company car and flexible working arrangements are provided where applicable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in field sales or business development management.
• Experience in engineering, power, utilities, or project-based environments is a plus.
• Ability to manage a sales pipeline and work to targets.
• Strong communication skills and autonomy in a large territory.

Responsibilities

• Proactively research, identify, and pursue new business opportunities within defined geographic areas.
• Recruit new clients through meetings, calls, email outreach and networking.
• Collaborate with internal departments to identify group opportunities and cross-sell potential.
• Attend events to promote the WBPS/Rehlko brand and build external presence.
• Build long-term relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Conduct CPD sessions to showcase services and expertise.
• Present proposals and tailored solutions to prospective clients.

Skills

Field sales experience

BD management

CRM experience (Salesforce)

UK driving licence

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Project sales - Remote Eligible

Drive new business growth by securing UK clients and closing strategic projects

Location: Heanor, Derbyshire

About The Role

Business Development Manager

Our work is guided by our purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy we bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life.

Our teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource – energy – that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Our team members are focused on pushing boundaries, continuing to innovate in an ever-changing landscape, and keeping up with the pace required to create solutions for today's world demands.

Our product range includes engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions that serve a broad spectrum of OEM, residential, industrial, and commercial customers. At Rehlko, you have the freedom to identify, create, and deliver solutions – large and small – that help people and communities thrive in the moments that matter.

At Rehlko, our team members are the essential energy that powers our organization’s success. We are committed to fostering a safe and sustainable work environment where safety is everyone’s responsibility. We empower every team member to actively participate in our Zero Is Possible safety culture by encouraging open communication, proactively reporting hazards, following protocols, and suggesting improvements. Join us in creating an energy resilient world for a better future!

At Rehlko, our Total Rewards programs are designed to accelerate growth, energize performance, and support a culture of inclusion at every stage of life and work. We offer total rewards that are easily understood, recognize results, enable career mobility, and reflect our commitment to valuing diverse needs in a fast-moving world. We provide:

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life flexibility
• Recognition and rewards
• Development and career opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace

Role overview

The Business Development Manager is responsible for driving new business growth for Rehlko through proactive prospecting, relationship-building, and effective promotion of the company’s services. The role focuses on generating new client opportunities, converting prospects into customers, and achieving agreed revenue targets while maintaining high professional standards and accurate CRM reporting.

The Role

• Proactively research, identify, and pursue new business opportunities within an agreed scope and defined geographical areas.
• Recruit new clients through a combination of face-to-face meetings, telephone conversations, email engagement, and networking activity.
• Liaise closely with all internal departments to identify and develop group opportunities and cross-selling potential.
• Attend networking events, industry forums, and business events to actively promote the WBPS/Rehlko brand and build a strong external presence.
• Build long‑term relationships with clients, framework partners, and project stakeholders.
• Conduct CPD (Continuing Professional Development) sessions for prospective clients to showcase services and expertise.
• Present face-to-face proposals and tailored solutions to prospective clients as required.
• Ensure sales software is fully and accurately updated at all times with prospects, quotations, planned visits, and all sales activity.
• Open quotations for customer enquiries and ensure timely follow‑up.
• Submit monthly sales reports, including pipeline reports, and present these during monthly sales meetings.
• Ensure new customers are fully informed of WBPS/Rehlko terms and conditions.

About You

• Proven experience in a sales or business development role, ideally within engineering, power, utilities, or project‑based environments.
• Minimum of 3 years in a field sales or business development management position.
• Ability to manage a sales pipeline and work to targets.
• Commercially astute, target‑driven, and confident negotiating at all levels.
• Excellent communicator, both in‑person and over digital channels.
• Comfortable working autonomously across a large territory.
• Comfortable using CRM systems (Salesforce experience preferred).
• Full UK driving licence required.

What's In It For You

• Competitive basic salary depending on experience
• Commission and bonus structure in place
• Company car and fuel card
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance (Death in Service)
• Long service recognition
• Employee perks and discount platform
• Excellent internal support and investment in your success
• Clear path for career progression in a thriving sector

Rehlko proudly offers a rich history steeped in creativity and commitment to our associates and communities, along with competitive benefits and compensation. Our Purpose—Creating an energy resilient world for a better future—and Values: Curiosity, Trust, Pace, and Excellence, are important cultural components that shape the way we work and relate to one another.

Curiosity – Seek, learn, share Trust – Go farther together Pace – Focus to go faster Excellence – Find the win every day