Business Development Manager in Littlehampton

Location: Remote working with regular travel to Littlehampton, West Sussex, and across UK and Europe as required.

Holiday: 23 days per year plus bank holidays.

OTE/Bonus: Up to £120,000+ (Uncapped Commission).

Are you a commercially driven sales professional with experience in either Automotive, Aerospace, Defence sector? Are you motivated by the opportunity to shape the growth of a dynamic, ambitious, and fast-evolving engineering business? Join Finecast Foundry and play a pivotal role in expanding our customer base, building strategic partnerships, and securing new business across the UK and Europe.

About Us:

Finecast Foundry is a leading UK design to manufacturer of complex, high-integrity castings and fully machined assembled components for high performance and safety critical applications. As an award-winning aerospace approved Company, we support as a Tier 1 to major customers across aerospace, automotive, motorsport, defence, and high regulated engineering sectors, delivering innovative and pioneering solutions that meet the highest technical and quality requirements.

Role Summary:

• As Business Development Manager, you will drive Finecast Foundry’s commercial growth by identifying new opportunities, developing strategic relationships, and securing long-term partnerships with existing and new customers.
• Working closely with the Managing Director and wider leadership team, you will secure new business and shape the long-term Commercial strategy of the Company.
• Developing, implementing and evolving business development strategies to achieve set targets.
• Monitoring industry sectors, technology and metallic product requirements to identify supply opportunities.
• Building and maintaining a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities.
• Nurturing and growing relationships with customers, engineering teams, procurement and senior stakeholders.
• Identifying and introducing our Company full capabilities not only relating to supply of castings, but wider engineering competences including CNC machining from solid, Mechanical Assembly, Non-Destructive Testing and Metallurgical Analysis and Testing Services.
• Managing negotiations, securing contracts and ensuring a smooth handover into engineering and operations.
• Supporting bid development and commercial proposals in collaboration with technical and quality teams.
• Working closely with our marketing team to establish and communicate a clear strategy, aligned to our manufacturing capabilities, technical expertise, and core competencies, to drive awareness and sales within targeted industry sectors.
• Providing leadership, guidance, and instruction to the wider commercial and business teams, resulting in securing contracts and onboarding customer accounts.
• Working closely with engineering, operations, finance and quality to ensure a coordinated approach to onboarding and account retention.

About You:

You are an experienced business development or technical sales professional who understands complex engineered components and the needs of high-specification, regulated industries. You’ll be motivated by the opportunity to deliver ambitious business growth, product and market diversification.

You will bring:

• Proven experience in business development, sales position within Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Motorsport, or similar precision-engineered sectors preferably working as a Tier 1 or 2 supplier.
• A track record of securing high-value contracts and developing accounts to build significant growth.
• Strong negotiation, communication and account management skills.
• The ability to understand customer technical requirements and translate them into commercially viable solutions.
• Familiarity with CRM tools and data-driven reporting.
• Flexibility to travel across the UK and Europe and to be regularly present on-site at the Company.