Business Development Manager

Position: Business Development Manager Location: Covering Midlands, North UK & Scotland Salary: Negotiable depending on experience + bonus + company car The Company: The client develops and manufactures linear and angle encoders, rotary encoders, digital readouts, and CNC controls. The Role: • Reporting to the Managing Director you will be responsible for developing new business in an area broadly covering the Midlands, North of England and Scotland, working from home and a regional office. • The primary focus of the role will be to identify new potential OEM customers for the group encoder products from heavy duty encoders & linear & torque motors & motion systems. • Secondary role will include maintenance of existing customer base and technical sales of the group brand encoders. • Identification of potential new OEMs, End users and sales channels for group products • Development of new OEM customers liaising with design departments and procurement etc. • Development of existing OEMs (new products/new applications) • Maintenance of CRM, market analysis and regular reporting (minimum quarterly) • Attending Sales meetings at Head office in the South East and trainings within Europe group and parent companies. Requirements: • The successful candidate will have a proven record of proactively selling similar products into the oil & gas, subsea, steel mills, mining or Energy industries. • They should reside in the designated sales area within commuting distance of the regional office in Sheffield. • You will be educated to a minimum HNC Electronics, Mechanical or Controls Engineering. • You will have a consultative approach to selling and must be a strong relationship builder as well as being self-motivated and PC literate with Microsoft packages