Recruitment Business Development Manager

The Company Orion Electrotech is a multi-award-winning specialist recruitment agency that takes pride in our reputation for high standards, teamwork, and genuine dedication to building exceptional relationships with both candidates and clients alike. The Role Are you a driven sales professional who thrives on business development, building relationships, and creating new opportunities? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, target-focused environment? We are seeking a confident and commercially minded Business Development Manager to join our Engineering someone who is motivated by targets, bonuses, and long, term growth. You'll need to be resilient, money, motivated, and comfortable with the reality that building a recruitment desk takes time. For those joining without recruitment experience, realistic first, year commission earnings are around £10,000, though our uncapped commission structure means long, term earnings can be significantly higher once your desk is established. Key Responsibilities Driving business development activity to identify and win new clients across the engineering and manufacturing sectors. Building and maintaining strong business relationships with decision, makers at all levels. Managing the full sales cycle, from initial prospecting through to account handover. Collaborating with recruitment consultants to ensure client requirements are delivered successfully. Helping shape sales strategies and contributing to the wider growth of the business development function. Tracking activity, forecasting pipelines, and achieving both personal and team business development targets. What You'll Bring Proven experience in business development, sales, account management, recruitment (360), or another target, driven environment. A confident and professional approach to client interaction, both on the phone and face-to-face. Strong commercial awareness and a proactive mindset for spotting and acting on opportunities. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build rapport quickly. Motivation, resilience, and a strong work ethic. A mindset that balances long, term business development growth with short, term performance. A vehicle and full UK drivers Package