Business Development Manager

Position: Business Development Manager (Permanent)
Are you an experienced business development or sales manager seeking a new challenge?

* Have you a proven track of working with customers in Europe and internationally?

Working for an established and successful company, this is a great opportunity for an experienced business development manager with experience of supplying mechanically engineered products into international markets.

As a highly effective communicator with the ability to engage at all levels, your responsibilities will include;

* Strategic development of sales territories (Europe and beyond)

* Managing existing clients whilst engaging, supporting and developing new customers

* Identifying and seeking new growth opportunities

* Creating marketing strategies

* Technical sales and support to OEMs and distributors

* Working closely with engineering to ensure products are developed to suit customer technical needs

* Attending exhibitions, trade shows and other events

Great interpersonal and communication skills are a must as you will be building robust relationships at all levels to create success, both internally and externally. Highly organised with strong presentation skills, you will be a confident team player with strong influencing skill and a fluency in other languages would be advantageous (such as French, Italian, German, Spanish or Portuguese) as would experience of working within the automotive sector.

You will need to be comfortable with regular travelling within Europe and beyond to customers as required.

You may have worked previously as a sales manager, account manager, sales account manager, business development manager, area sales manager, regional sales manager, European sales manager, European account manager, EMEA Sales Manager, International Sales Manager, Commercial Manager, Global Sales Manager, EMEA Account Manager or similar.

This role is easily commutable from Winchester, Basingstoke, Andover, Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth, Eastleigh, Fareham, Havant, Petersfield, Liphook, Arundel, Chichester, Farnham, Godalming, Ringwood, Salisbury and many more places in Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset, West Sussex and surrounding area