Bussiness Development Manager
- Salary
Competitive salary
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Location
United Kingdom
- Job type
Permanent
Business Development Manager
Field-based (main travel to London or Birmingham)
Permanent
Competitive salary
We’re looking for a driven Business Development Manager to help grow a well-established service business across key accounts and target markets. This is a hands-on, field-based role suited to someone who enjoys being out with customers, opening doors, building relationships, and converting opportunities into long-term revenue.
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Sales, you’ll be responsible for generating new business, developing opportunities, and expanding service contracts across sectors including Facilities Management, Local Authorities, Education, Care, and Leisure.
You’ll balance proactive new business activity with account development, working closely with internal teams to deliver accurate quotations and commercially sound proposals.
What You’ll Be Doing
Field-based (main travel to London or Birmingham)
Permanent
Competitive salary
We’re looking for a driven Business Development Manager to help grow a well-established service business across key accounts and target markets. This is a hands-on, field-based role suited to someone who enjoys being out with customers, opening doors, building relationships, and converting opportunities into long-term revenue.
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Sales, you’ll be responsible for generating new business, developing opportunities, and expanding service contracts across sectors including Facilities Management, Local Authorities, Education, Care, and Leisure.
You’ll balance proactive new business activity with account development, working closely with internal teams to deliver accurate quotations and commercially sound proposals.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Proactively generating new leads through cold calling, networking, and client engagement
- Identifying and qualifying service opportunities and contracts across target sectors
- Managing existing and prospective accounts to maximise growth
- Converting opportunities into quotations and proposals with internal technical teams
- Proven experience in sales or business development (ideally B2B services or industrial environments)
- Experience within the engineering, manufacturing or building service industry
- Strong lead generation, qualification, and closing skills
- Confident communicator with excellent relationship-building ability
- Self-motivated, organised, and comfortable working independently
- Experience selling into Facilities Management, Education, Care, or Leisure sectors
- Experience preparing quotations, proposals, or bids
- Familiarity with CRM systems and sales reporting
- Comfortable presenting to stakeholders at all levels
