Business Development Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Sauce People Ltd
Area Sales Manager – North East & Scotland
If you’re enthusiastic about meeting customers, solving technical challenges, and growing a territory with real autonomy, this role will feel like home. You’ll be representing a highly respected range of automation components and modular systems used by machine‑builders, OEMs, and systems integrators across your region.
This is a role for someone who loves being out in front of customers, building relationships, and driving growth through both existing accounts and new opportunities.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Spending four days a week on the road, visiting customers, prospects, and lapsed accounts
- Growing revenue within an established customer base through upselling, cross‑selling, and deepening technical engagement
- Identifying and winning new business with machine‑builders, integrators, and industrial OEMs
- Re‑activating lapsed or low‑activity accounts and rebuilding long‑term relationships
- Showcasing high‑quality automation products and modular solutions that genuinely solve customer problems
- Understanding customer applications and tailoring solutions that add value
- Managing your territory with full ownership: planning visits, tracking activity, and driving results
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in technical field sales — ideally electrical, mechanical, automation, controls, sensors, connectors, or related components
- A track record of developing accounts and winning new business
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage engineers, buyers, and decision
The client is open to hungry commercial candidates with a technical aptitude who want to break into the industrial automation industry.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 3583080
- Job ID:
- 225013479
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