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Aerospace Technical Sales Manager

Our client strives to build its Aerospace business, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Development professional to work for the Head of Sales to identify and secure new business opportunities to support the achievement of the Company’s strategic objectives.

Specific Duties
• Work with the Head of Sales to transit strategic objectives into short and medium term opportunities.
• Use market knowledge and experience to generate, manage and deliver new opportunities.
• Work with a cross functional team within our clients team to compile technically and financially sound proposals for presentation to the customer.
• Liaise and negotiate with potential customers to secure new business that meets the needs of both the client and the customer.
• Conduct research to identify potential customers for partnership, joint venture opportunities, understand the competition and how the client should be positioned to win new business.
• Develop sound, new business plans for approval.
• Maintain customer relationships by continuing to identify their needs and requirements, identifying and delivering opportunities to secure new business and improve service.
• Manage all commercial aspects of customer accounts.

Skills & Attributes
Essential
• Experience working in both Technical and Business Development capacity.
• Degree qualified in an Engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience working within an engineering sector.
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written that can present information effectively and professionally to potential customers and Senior management.
• Excellent relationship building skills.
• Sound IT skills.
• The ability to interpret, use and draw valid conclusions from business statistics, management reports and financial information.
• The ability to define problems, collate data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and make appropriate decisions.
• The ability and motivation to win new business through personal follow-through and orchestrating a team approach.
• Ability to manage projects in a timely fashion.

Desirable
• Knowledge of Aerospace technical architecture; be that from a material or component level within various platform systems and sub-systems.
• Experience in a similar Business Development role in the Aerospace industry; Tier 1, Tier 2, MRO etc.
• European or Asian language skills.
• Good financial understanding.

Our client offers excellent rates of pay including employee healthcare, contributory personal pension scheme, 25 days holiday, sales bonus scheme and more.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.