Business Development Manager

Are you a sales professional with proven experience within the automotive, engineering or manufacturing sector? This client facing role requires an individual with a strong commercial acumen, organisational and time management skills to identify training and consultancy needs across emerging industry demands: * Development and maintenance of a sales pipeline and ensuring all sales activity is recorded and reported through the CRM (Salesforce). * Take ownership of outbound sales efforts, including lead generation, conversion of incoming enquiries, proposal management, and relationship development. * Champion customer insight and feedback across the business, ensuring client needs are reflected in service development. * Build and maintain strong commercial relationships with OEMs, Tier 1s, and key decision-makers within the automotive and manufacturing sectors. Ideally degree qualified with experience in B2B sales with the ability to build and maintain senior-level customer relationships: * Ability to understand complex services and communicate them in a customer-focused way. * Proficient with MS Office and CRM platforms (Salesforce preferred). * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The role is based in Solihull and offers hybrid working. Travel across the UK will be required to attend customer meetings and industry events