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09 April 2025 | Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd

5 X Business Development Manager positions – Electrical Sector

The 5 territories are: North of England – Lancashire,, Cumbria Northumberland, Tyneside & Teeside Potteries – Staffordshire, Stockport, Stoke on Trent, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire – South, West and East Yorkshire, South East – Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, East Anglia – Cambridgshire, Norfolk, Suffolk

£45K - £55K NEG DOE OTE including excellent Basic, Bonus plus Car Pension Health Insurance, Critical Illness cover, Life Assurance benefits.

Fantastic opportunity to join a market leading and progressive company in the Electrical Industry as a Business Development Manager. The successful applicants will receive a good basic salary, company car and pension, along with participation in the target related Bonus scheme and significant health and life insurance benefits. To be successful in your application you will require sales experience in the industrial electrical market place with some technical ability and a product knowledge strength in some area, along with ideal but not mandatory an electrical qualification.

Working remotely from a home base to plan your own diary and customer visits within your defined territory, as the Application Business Development Manager, you will identify opportunities to promote and sell a full range of electrical, lighting, power distribution, factory automation and process automation solutions across a wide range of industries. The company have access to an extensive range of supplier products types and brands at your disposal to satisfy most requirements. Reporting to and under the guidance of your local Regional Sales Manager, you will identify opportunities for business and engage with decision makers to further develop relationships and business. There is available extensive customer database information, along with support from marketing activities. In addition there is full technical support available for all products along with the on-going product and technical training.  

For these roles we are seeking candidates located within those areas described above, with good access to road networks, although an excellent candidate located anywhere with those territories would be considered.

For this field based sales position, prospective candidates you will have the following attributes, skills and experience:

Demonstrable Sales career history and success.
Time management, well organised, great communication skills, verbal & written.
Self-motivation, driven, “can do” attitude.
Commercial and technical ability.
Ideally Industrial Electrical/Control & Automation knowledge.
Microsoft 365 proficient.
Customer focussed.
Must hold a full UK driving license.
Must be eligible to work in the UK.

No sponsorship is available for this role and it is only open to those already living and working in the UK.

To register your interest contact us with an up to date CV and we will be pleased to call you for a confidential discussion. To view more of our positions click on the Rise logo at the top of this page or visit our website directly.

We work across a range of business to business/B2B market sectors including Renewable Energy, Electrical, Control & Automation, Electronic, Renewable Energy, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Fluid Power, Instrumentation, Engineering services companies, Industrial Consumables, Industrial Components, Capital Equipment, Material Handling, Scientific Equipment, Petrochemical and Utilities.

Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd are currently working on a wide range of business to business/B2B sales positions, account management, business development and sales management roles including: Sales Manager, UK Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Country Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Senior Sales Executive, National Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Account Executive, National Account Executive, Sales Specialist, Global Account Manager, Sales Representative, Territory Sales, Field Sales, Client Relationship Manager, Sales Engineer, Sales Consultant, Technical Sales, Senior Sales Engineer, Export Sales, International Sales, European Sales, Branch Manager, Sales Director,  Trainee Sales, Graduate Sales, Telesales, Internal Sales, Office Sales.