Overview

Job Title: Business Development Manager Mechanical Engineering

Industry Sector: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial, Fabrication, Animal Feed Milling, Beaters, Screens, Wearparts, Granulated Machinery Screens, Industrial Screens, Tyre Processing, Plastic & Green Waste Recycling, Architectural, Staircases & Stairwells, Balustrade Panels, Perforated Sheet Panels, Sheet Metal Fabricators

Area to be covered: National, ideally based in South Yorkshire

Remuneration: £40,000-£43,000 Neg. + £2,000 Bonus

Benefits: Car Allowance or EV after probation & full benefits package

Responsibilities

• Field sales role covering nationally, with the majority of clients based between the M62 and M4 corridor
• 40% of time selling hardened tungsten carbide tipped beaters, screens & wearparts into animal feed milling (straw & grass processing)
• 40% selling industrial screens for granulated machinery used in plastic recycling and green waste processing (targeting Manufacturing Managers, Engineering Managers, Plant Engineers in high-end recycling businesses)
• 20% of time selling perforated metal products such as balustrades, staircases and stairwells into architectural fabricators working for main contractors
• Majority of time focused on winning new business (split 50% cross selling and upselling within existing customers and 50% new business development within new sectors such as selling into local authorities)
• Inheriting circa 50 active customer accounts
• Tasked with generating approx. £300,000 of new business revenue
• Liaising with Engineering, Production And Technical Functions As Required
• Three/four days a week on the road vesting customers, rest of time working from home or in the office (minimum one day a week in the South Yorkshire offices)

Requirements / Ideal Candidate

• Mechanical engineering field sales experience
• Open to a mechanical engineer looking for first field sales position
• Must be able to read engineering drawings
• Basic technical understand so as to advise potential customer if the products required can be fabricated
• Knowledge of engineered granulated screens, beaters, screens & wearparts is not essential but may be useful
• Ideally some industrial screens experience in recycling-based products/processes (e.g. in plastics recycling)
• Self-starter/ pro-active in nature
• Looking for a long term career move
• New business tenacity
• Ideally a bachelors degree or equivalent in a mechanical engineering discipline
• Low-medium tech small company environment, may not suit someone from a large corporate background unless they have worked for a smaller team/ division

The Company

Established 50 years

Privately held

Family owned

20+ employees

£2.5m+ UK turnover

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist construction field sales recruitment consultancy, dealing exclusively with construction field sales jobs, construction field sales vacancies and specification field sales positions within: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial, Fabrication, Architectural, Staircases & Stairwells, Balustrade Panels, Perforated Sheet Panels, Sheet Metal Fabricators, Animal Feed Milling, Beaters, Screens, Wearparts, Granulated Machinery Screens, Tyre Processing, Plastic & Green Waste Recycling