Senior Business Development Manager

Are you a natural hunter who thrives on turning a cold introduction into a signed contract? And do you want a genuine seat at the table, shaping the growth of an ambitious engineering business, rather than just chasing this month's quota?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

The Opportunity

Our client is a well-established and rapidly growing business within the UK electrical engineering and power infrastructure sector. As part of an ambitious growth strategy, they are seeking an experienced and commercially driven Business Development Manager to build and lead new business activity across the UK power, energy and infrastructure markets.

This is a genuine new-business hunting role. Success will be measured on qualified opportunities generated, orders secured and profitable revenue delivered — not on activity alone.

What You'll Be Doing

Proactively identifying and developing new customers across transmission and distribution, DNOs, ICPs, renewables, BESS, data centres and major infrastructure programmes
Building relationships with decision-makers across Tier 1 contractors, EPCs, OEMs, developers and engineering consultants
Developing opportunities ahead of formal tender, securing RFQs and converting these into contracted, profitable orders
Building structured account plans for strategically important customers
Owning and maintaining an accurate, credible sales pipeline through to contract award
Supporting Bid–No Bid decisions, tender strategy and commercial negotiation alongside the Commercial and Engineering teams
Reporting weekly on pipeline, order intake and market intelligence directly to the CEO and management team

What's On Offer

A fantastic basic salary with genuine high earning potential through a KPI-focused bonus structure
Car allowance
A pivotal, high-visibility role reporting into senior leadership
Genuine influence over the direction of a business in an active growth phase
The opportunity to shape strategic account development from the ground up

About You

Proven track record in business development or sales, ideally managing complex, long-cycle B2B opportunities
A confident, credible communicator able to engage senior decision-makers and technical stakeholders alike
Commercially astute, target-driven and comfortable owning a significant pipeline
Sector experience within high-voltage electrical engineering, power, utilities, renewables, BESS, data centres or major infrastructure would be a strong advantage — but a proven hunter mentality and genuine ambition to grow into the sector will also be considered
Willing and able to travel throughout the UK

Interested?

This is a confidential search being managed exclusively by Select Recruitment Specialists. For a full briefing and a confidential conversation, please contact Emma Baylis at Select Recruitment Specialists