National Business Development Manager

The Opportunity

Were looking for an ambitious and commercially driven National Business Development Manager to identify develop and secure high-value outsourcing contracts across the UK manufacturing and industrial sectors. This is a true hunter role focused on generating new business rather than managing existing accounts. Youll engage with senior decision-makers uncover complex customer challenges and develop tailored outsourcing solutions that deliver long-term value. If you enjoy building strategic relationships navigating complex sales cycles and winning transformational contracts this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify develop and secure new outsourcing opportunities across target manufacturing and industrial sectors.
• Generate and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities through proactive business development.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders including Plant Managers Engineering Managers Procurement Directors Operations Directors and C-Suite executives.
• Lead complex consultative sales processes from initial engagement through to contract award.
• Understand customer challenges and develop tailored outsourced service solutions that create measurable value.
• Coordinate technical operational and commercial teams throughout the bid and proposal process.
• Deliver presentations facilitate customer workshops and negotiate long-term commercial agreements.
• Maintain accurate sales forecasting CRM records and strategic account plans before successfully transitioning won contracts into operational delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record of winning new business and securing high-value B2B contracts ideally six or seven-figure opportunities.
• Experience managing complex consultative sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders and long-term decision-making.
• Strong commercial awareness with excellent negotiation presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a strategic sales pipeline and prioritise opportunities effectively.
• Resilient self-motivated and driven with a proactive hunter mentality and a passion for creating opportunities where none currently exist.
• Experience within manufacturing engineering industrial services outsourced solutions MRO procurement or supply chain environments would be highly advantageous.
• Full UK driving licence.

Rubix UK has a commitment to doing things differently for our colleagues and customers.

Today Rubix Group is the clear market leader with a presence in 23 markets and sales of 3.15bn in customers include some of the biggest names in manufacturing the SMEs that form the backbone of industry and everything in-between.

More than a mover of boxes we use our specialist knowledge and technical expertise to deliver products and services that keep production lines moving.

Right now across Europe there are 9000 of us and counting. Weve disrupted and we have grown but were not finished yet.