Do you thrive on building long-term client partnerships rather than chasing one-off deals?
A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.
Can you talk technical detail with engineers one minute and commercial terms with directors the next?
If you've answered yes to both, read on.
We're working exclusively with a very successful, long-established British design and manufacturing business that builds bespoke, custom-engineered solutions for some of the most demanding clients in the world. Their products operate in high-performance environments where precision, reliability and speed of execution are non-negotiable, and their reputation among an elite international client base has been earned over decades of getting the detail right.
They're now looking for a Sales Partner / Technical Solutions Manager to take ownership of a key sector of the business and grow it meaningfully over the next two to three years. You'll be working alongside a Senior Business Development Manager — someone I placed into the business back in 2019 and who has gone on to do brilliant things there — so this is very much a partnership role with a clear runway to grow your own accounts and your own profile.
What you'll actually be doing:
Building deep, trusted relationships with high-profile international clients and a US distributor network. Travelling to industry events and customer sites across the UK, Europe and the States. Scoping technical requirements on-site, feeding them back to an in-house design team, and turning enquiries into long-term partnerships. Owning a pipeline, managing a CRM properly, and shaping the commercial direction of the sector as the business scales.
This is not a transactional sales seat. It's a relationship and consultancy role with technical credibility at its core — selling into environments where your clients expect you to keep up.
What you'll bring:
A proven track record in technical or solutions-based B2B sales, ideally around engineered, bespoke or capital products. The commercial instinct to negotiate well and the engineering curiosity to genuinely understand what's being built. Confident with customers at every level, comfortable on a stand at a trade show, and equally happy in a design-led conversation with an engineer. Experience selling into high-performance, time-critical or elite-client sectors is a real advantage but not a deal-breaker — strong technical sales DNA from an adjacent world is just as interesting.
You'll need to be office-based near Norwich (this isn't a remote role), happy to travel internationally several times a year including occasional weekends, and hold a clean-ish driving licence.
The package:
£Excellent base (depending on experience), Excellent OTE with bonus linked to objectives and profit share, 32 days holiday including bank holidays, and a genuine seat at the table in a business with ambitious growth plans. xsngvjr
If this sounds like you — or someone you know — get in touch for a confidential conversation.