Business Development Engineer

Are you a business development professional with a genuine curiosity about how things work, even when you are not the one designing them? Do you enjoy opening doors and building relationships more than waiting for enquiries to land in your inbox? We are working with a specialist engineering business that helps customers overcome sustainment and obsolescence challenges affecting their electronic and electro-mechanical systems, supporting sectors including aerospace, defence, rail, medical and industrial. As the business continues to grow, they are looking to strengthen their business development team with an experienced, commercially-driven BD professional.This is a sales-focused role rather than an engineering one, but strong technical curiosity is essential. You will be speaking with engineers, procurement specialists and programme teams, and need to be comfortable understanding the context of a customer''s challenge and recognising where the business''s capabilities could help, before passing anything requiring detailed technical assessment to the internal team. You won''t need to be the technical authority in the room, but you will need a genuine willingness to build a deep understanding of what the business does and why customers choose to work with them.Your responsibilities as a Business Development Engineer: Proactively identify and develop new business opportunities across target markets. Open new conversations through telephone, email, LinkedIn, networking and ..... full job details .....