AVL Powertrain UK Ltd offers a job in the United Kingdom (GB) as

Business Developer

The objective of the Business Developer role is to maintain and grow relationships with existing AVL customers, build up new customer relationships, identify business opportunities, and prepare proposals for potential AVL customer projects.

•    Maintain and develop relationships within existing customer base as well as establishing relationships with new customers above and beyond current base
•    Identify new business opportunities for AVL
•    Quotation development
•    Key Account Management – responsible for developing extended relationships within key accounts and monitoring delivery of projects

Essential:
•    Technical education
•    Excellent communication skills with customers and colleagues
•    Excellent inter-personal skills
•    Excellent written English
•    Highly customer-focused and able to solve customer-related concerns to mutual satisfaction
•    Ability to independently scope out and calculate project requirements with input from technical teams and senior management
•    Ability to prepare project proposals, present to customer and conduct follow-up negotiations
•    Appreciation of future challenges faced by customers and ability to identify how AVL can support customers to solve such challenges
•    Planning, prioritising and co-ordinating workload with minimal guidance
•    Willingness to travel and a flexible and adaptable nature
Preferable:
•    Previous experience of engineering projects in the automotive industry
•    An understanding of our existing customer base and their programmes
•    Knowledge of AVL’s product and service offerings and the types of projects undertaken by AVL – both in Powertrain Engineering and across ITS/AST branches; locally and across the affiliates
•    Experience with sales tools and software, for example Salesforce.com

If an offer of employment is made, applicants are required to undergo a DBS check. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory DBS check and the company reserves the right to withdraw its offer in the event that the applicant has unspent criminal convictions.

Job posted on: 19/09/2023
Closing date: 27/10/2023

We look forward to receiving your details for the unique opportunity to join our growing, high-tech, international team.