Sales & Business Development Manager (Aerospace, Defence & Advanced Manufacturing) - Remote

Make an impact in Aerospace, Defence & Advanced Manufacturing with a globally recognised leader in industrial lubricants and high-performance products. This is an exciting new UK growth opportunity for ambitious professionals with industry knowledge, technical understanding, and strong relationship-building skills.

As part of the Pathfinder UK programme, you’ll identify and develop opportunities across Aerospace, Defence, and Manufacturing, working with organisations where technical performance, reliability, and product qualification are critical. Apply your existing industry expertise to introduce high-performance products into specialised industries.

About the Role

This is a new opportunity focused on developing opportunities across Aerospace, Defence, and Industrial Manufacturing. You don’t need to be a senior salesperson—what matters is your understanding of the environment and your ability to navigate organisations with multiple stakeholders, technical requirements, and qualification processes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing relationships with potential customers and understanding their applications and requirements
• Identifying opportunities for the company’s products and supporting those opportunities through evaluation and product trials
• Working alongside sales, technical, and distributor teams to develop opportunities through the sales cycle

Requirements

What We're Looking For:

• Experience working with or selling into Aerospace, Defence, or Manufacturing industries
• Experience within industrial lubricants, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, applications engineering, or a related industrial environment is valuable
• Proactive, dynamic, commercially minded, and familiar with the industrial landscape

Why Join This New UK Growth Initiative?

This isn’t just another sales position. You’ll join a new UK growth programme for an established global brand, using your industry experience in a new way to make a visible commercial impact. You’ll:

• Represent a globally recognised industrial brand
• Help develop a new UK growth programme
• Build relationships across the Aerospace, Defence, and Manufacturing space
• Work alongside experienced sales and technical teams
• Be responsible for running your own sales cycle up until product trial
• Work remotely but have the opportunity to go onsite and build customer relationships

Remote Working & Travel

This is a remote-based role, but you will need to be comfortable with occasional travel to customer and client sites as opportunities progress through the sales cycle.

Benefits

• 21 annual leave days in year 1, rising to 25 days (plus bank holidays)
• Additional day’s leave for your birthday
• Ongoing expert training and support
• External training allowance (monthly)
• Opportunity for advancement
• Employee Assistance Programme (Mental Health wellbeing)
• Daily team meetings
• Company sick pay
• Great fun, team environment
• Remote working optional