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Business Development Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTDCity, Leeds🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 3 Apr 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Business Development Manager role offers significant career growth with uncapped commission potential, allowing you to double your base salary and achieve promotion within a year while representing leading tech companies. You'll thrive here if you are a commercially driven, self-starter eager to excel in a fast-paced, professional sales environment. Apply to join a rapidly expanding organization and make a substantial impact on their continued success.

Quick Overview

Salary
£55k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Remote
Location
City, Leeds, United Kingdom
Business DevelopmentProject Management

Job Description

As an ambitious and driven Business Development Manager are you looking for an opportunity to set up a UK Sales and Service office from scratch for a European manufacturer of packaging machinery and lines to the food and beverage sector? If so, this is the job for you with a six figure package and built in prospects to manage a team who you will recruit yourself.
BASIC SALARY: up to £75,000
BENEFITS:
Bonus and Commission to earn circa £14,000 in year one and circa £25,000 in year two
Company Car or Car Allowance
Negotiable Pension and Healthcare
LOCATION: Home based role - you can live anywhere in the UK but a central location is preferred to enable you to cover the UK & Ireland
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Cambridge, Nottingham
JOB DESCRIPTION: Business Development Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager - packaging machinery, lines - food and beverage
A true Business Development Manager role from a zero base in the UK, your job will be to identify and generate new business selling a large range of packaging machinery as a high value technical solution including VFFS Baggers, Bottling Lines, Case Packers and Palletisers to the food and beverage markets.
There are very realistic first and second year targets and full applications, project management and administration support will be provided.
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Business Development Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Sales Manager - packaging machinery, lines - food and beverage
You MUST be an experienced field sales person with a proven track record of new business development and be willing and able to generate new business from a zero base.
You MUST have sold or be selling packaging machinery to the food and/or beverage markets.
Ideally you will have a technical or engineering background.
You will be ambitious and wanting to build and manage a UK Sales and Service office in 3 to 5 years.
THE COMPANY:
A very well, established European manufacturer and supplier of a range of packaging machinery sold to the food and beverage markets.
The company want to recruit someone who can first build turnover and then a Sales and Service team over the next 5 years.
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
REF: MPH18722, Wallace Hind Selection

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