Business Development Manager - Water

Business Development Manager - Water Industry
Up to 60,000 + Bonus + Benefits (Dependent upon experience)
Yorkshire

Our Client

Our client is an established and growing engineering business, delivering specialist fabricated and engineered solutions into technically regulated industrial environments. Operating from a modern production facility, the company supports customers where compliance, safety and quality are critical to project delivery. Continued growth has created the requirement to appoint a Business Development Manager to support expansion within the UK water industry.

The Role

The Business Development Manager will lead new business activity within the UK water industry, building, owning and maintaining long-term relationships with water companies and contractor partners to secure sustainable, framework-led and specification-driven opportunities. This will include identifying target organisations, managing engagement across complex supply chains and progressing opportunities through extended sales cycles.

Working closely with engineering and operational colleagues, the Business Development Manager will play a central role in building and managing a structured opportunity pipeline, assessing technical and commercial viability and ensuring potential work aligns with business capability. The role will also involve maintaining accurate opportunity information, providing market insight and supporting informed decision-making within a regulated sales environment.

The ideal candidate will bring proven experience in business development within regulated or framework-driven industries, with a strong understanding of contractor-led and specification-based sales processes. They will be a professional and credible individual, capable of building trust with senior commercial and technical stakeholders through a consultative, relationship-led approach, and working collaboratively across internal teams. Experience within the water sector or adjacent infrastructure markets would be advantageous

To Apply

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in developing a strategically important sector within a growing engineering business. Interested candidates are invited to apply accordingly. All submissions will be reviewed, and suitable candidates will be contacted directly.

About Us

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