Business development Lead
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 33 days leave + Bonus + Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 December 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, Leicestershire, le4 8dh |
| Company: | Hunter Selection Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 27344_1764164766 |
Summary
Business Development Lead
Leicester
£26,000 - £30,000 + Company Bonus + Sales Bonus + Training + Benefits
A great opportunity has just become available for a motivated and ambitious individual to join a Leicester based company within the Sales Department. You will be someone that has worked in a account management/Business Development type position, ideally within an Engineering or Manufacturing company.
The Role:
- Reporting to branch manager.
- Taking enquiries from customers over the phone in a professional manner.
- Investigating, researching and finding NEW business opportunities from dormant and new accounts.
- Ensuring Customer service levels surpass customer expectations.
- Creating and closing quotations/enquiries and recording them down in an accurate manner.
- Issuing quotes to customers on the day it is collated and contacting the customer to inform them of any delays.
- To produce all aspects of quotes as directed by the Branch Manager.
- Following Sales Strategies created and implemented by the Sales Director.
- To Call Customers and chase orders, quotes and PO's.
The Candidate:
- Previous experience within sales.
- Ideally sales experience within an engineering or manufacturing environment.
- Great telephone manner.
- Can keep calm under pressure.
- Experienced with both upselling and hunting new business on the phone.
The Benefits:
- 33 days annual leave
- Monthly bonus
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Private healthcare
- Pension
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.