Business Development Manager – Environmental Services

Role Overview

The Business Development Manager will play a key role in identifying new markets, developing customer relationships, and creating new commercial opportunities across occupational hygiene, water hygiene, asbestos, noise monitoring, and environmental consultancy services. The role will focus on securing profitable new contracts and ad hoc work to achieve annual sales targets through proactive business development, building strong relationships with both new and existing customers, leading competitive tender submissions, and maximising reactive sales opportunities.

What You Will Do

The tasks you will undertake will include maintaining and developing a wide network of contacts, building effective relationships within the environmental services marketplace, prospecting new clients, promoting SOCOTEC’s environmental services, delivering specific growth targets for each new service line, building and managing client relationships, supporting the production and delivery of quotation documentation and sales presentations, contributing to all aspects of the strategic sales process, and maintaining a strong knowledge of market trends.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be a successful Business Development Manager, you should be able to demonstrate experience within sales, marketing, telesales, business development, or bids environments, IT literacy with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, databases, and CRM systems, a proactive and self-motivated attitude, the ability to manage priorities effectively, and strong focus on follow-up, relationship building, and delivering excellent customer engagement.

Requirements

• Experience within sales, marketing, telesales, business development, or bids environments
• Experience working within construction, engineering, asbestos, compliance, or related technical service sectors would be advantageous
• IT literate with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, databases, and CRM systems
• Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks
• Able to manage priorities effectively and perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Strong focus on follow-up, relationship building, and delivering excellent customer engagement
• Highly enthusiastic with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Punctual, organised, and diligent, with strong attention to detail
• A-level qualified or equivalent experience

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (with the option to buy more)
• An electric car scheme (where applicable)
• Employee recognition programmes
• Family-friendly support
• Exclusive retail discounts
• Employee assistance programmes
• An enhanced company pension