Job Title: Business Development Manager
Location: Hybrid (2 days per week in Haywards Heath)
Salary: Up to £60,000 + uncapped commission (OTE £75,000)
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Sector: Facilities Management / Building Services / Commercial Maintenance
We're looking for a commercially driven Business Development Manager to accelerate our client's growth. If you thrive on creating opportunity, building trusted relationships, and closing meaningful deals this is your platform.
The Role
This is a proactive, front foot field based business development role. You'll be responsible for identifying, shaping, and securing new contracts across maintenance, energy, and building services. You'll shape growth, influence strategy, and build a meaningful pipeline that directly impacts success.
Responsibilities
- Proactively source, qualify, and convert new business opportunities
- Use outbound prospecting, networking, referrals, and market insight
- Build and sustain a high quality sales pipeline
- Lead confident, value driven conversations
- Secure meetings, uncover operational challenges, and position our client as a trusted partner
- Develop outcomes focused solutions delivering commercial and operational value
- Manage the full sales lifecycle
- Contribute to pricing discussions and deal structuring
- Support proposal creation, scopes of work, and pricing models
- Build strong margin awareness and commercial decision making capability
- Maintain accurate CRM data and forecasting
Qualifications / What we're looking for
- Sales or Business Development experience, ideally from within an FM background
- A track record of generating and progressing new opportunitiesConfidence engaging decision makers
- Strong communication and relationship building skills
- Motivation, resilience, and a proactive mindset
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary
- Uncapped commission/bonus structure rewarding new business wins
- Company vehicle/car allowance
- Health Insurance
- 31 days holiday including bank holidays
- Structured onboarding and sales training
- Clear progression within a growing business
If you're ready to take ownership of your sales career in a business that values both performance and people, we'd love to hear from you.
This advertisement has been posted by Recruitment Index as an employment agency on behalf of our client.