About the Role
Transmission Dynamics is looking for an enthusiastic and commercially minded Business Development Manager with technical expertise to join our growing team.
Working at the forefront of advanced engineering and technology, you’ll play a key role in developing relationships with customers across sectors including rail, energy, mining and heavy industry, helping them identify innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges.
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines relationship management, technical team liaison and commercial thinking. Working closely with our engineering and senior management teams, you’ll guide opportunities from initial enquiry through proposal development and onto successful contract award. This role is pivotal in supporting customers throughout their decision-making process and helping drive the continued growth of our business.
If you enjoy establishing and building on long-term relationships and working within an innovative engineering environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary point of contact for newly qualified customer enquiries.
- Build strong relationships with prospective and existing clients.
- Understand customer requirements and identify appropriate technical solutions in collaboration with our engineering teams.
- Support preparation and presentation of technical/commercial proposals.
- Organise, document and follow up customer meetings, tracking correspondence via in-house CRM system (Insightly).
- Identify and review new tender opportunities.
- Coordinate internal technical and commercial input to support tender submissions.
- Review customer contractual documentation and neogitate terms and conditions.
- Work closely with the senior management team to continually improve commercial processes, documentation and customer engagement.
- Provide wider commercial support across the business as required.
About You
We’re looking for someone who enjoys working with people, thrives on building trusted relationships and has a genuine interest in innovative technology. You’ll be proactive, organised and commercially aware, with the confidence to engage with customers while working collaboratively with technical colleagues across the business. Excellent communication skills, attention to detail and a positive, solutions-focused approach are essential.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Minimum two years’ experience in a client-facing business development / technical sales role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to build long-term customer relationships.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to understand customer requirements.
- Confident working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience within engineering or technology-based businesses in one or more relevant market/industry.
- Established networks in relevant markets/industries.
- Knowledge of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), condition monitoring or related technologies.
- Experience responding to tenders or public procurement opportunities.
- Experience preparing technical or commercial proposals.
- Experience of maintaining CRM records to trackline pipeline activity.
Why This Role is Different
This is far more than a traditional sales role. You’ll work alongside talented engineers and technical specialists, helping customers solve real engineering challenges through innovative technologies deployed around the world.
Every opportunity is different, giving you the chance to work across multiple industries, develop a broad understanding of cutting-edge technologies and build lasting relationships with customers ranging from infrastructure owners to global engineering organisations.
As Transmission Dynamics continues to grow internationally, you’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine contribution to the future direction and success of the business.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for people who are:
- Naturally curious and commercially minded.
- Excellent relationship builders.
- Confident communicators, including with technical colleaguges and customers
- Organised and proactive.
- Collaborative team players.
- Practical problem-solvers.
- Comfortable taking ownership.
- Excited by innovation and continuous learning.
Salary & Benefits
Please see our Salary & Benefits section on the main Careers page for further information about our approach to remuneration, career development and employee benefits.
Ready to Join Us?
If you’re excited by the opportunity to work on world-leading technology, solve challenging engineering problems and be part of a collaborative, innovative team, we’d love to hear from you.
- Your CV
- A short covering letter explaining why you’re interested in joining Transmission Dynamics and why you believe you’d be a great fit for the role.
We’ll review every application personally and, if your experience looks like a good match, we’ll be in touch to arrange an introductory conversation.
Before you Apply
Please note:
- Office-based working:
Unless otherwise stated, our roles are based full-time at our purpose-built headquarters in Cramlington, Northumberland. We believe our collaborative, multidisciplinary environment is one of our greatest strengths and an important part of how we innovate and work together. - Right to work:
As part of the application process, you’ll be asked to confirm your current right to work status in the UK. This information is requested solely to ensure compliance with UK employment legislation and will be verified before any offer of employment is confirmed.