At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive global sales in automotive, aerospace, and defence sectors while building strong partnerships.
- Company: Leading chemicals distributor with a focus on innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Negotiable salary, OTE £100k, car allowance, and opportunities for international travel.
- Other info: Dynamic role with significant influence and opportunities for career advancement.
- Why this job: Be a key player in shaping the future of automotive technology and solutions.
- Qualifications: Proven B2B sales experience in technical sectors, with strong negotiation skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Position: Global Sales Manager (Automotive/Aerospace/Defence) Location: UK Salary: £Negotiable OTE £100k + car allowance Company/ Sector: Chemicals Distributor
The
Role
- Strengthening and expanding key strategic accounts.
- Identifying and capturing new technical opportunities and projects.
- Building trusted partnerships with key suppliers to bring innovation into customer applications.
- Maintaining deep market understanding to ensure the company stays ahead of industry change.
- This is primarily an individual contributor role with significant influence across regions, including coordination with colleagues in Europe and potential future international resources.
- Develop and grow relationships with global automotive OEMs.
- Manage complex, multi-site customer environments spanning engineering, procurement and operations.
- Retain and expand existing business while identifying new opportunities for growth.
- Coordinate activities across international customer locations to ensure consistent engagement.
- Act as a credible technical partner supporting customers through design and material selection, testing and validation, and transition into production environments.
- Promote high-reliability solutions aligned with automotive quality expectations and a “never fail” approach.
- Focus initially on silicone technologies while expanding cross-selling across adhesives, tapes and engineered solutions.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with key strategic suppliers.
- Work collaboratively on project development, new product introductions and technical opportunities.
- Coordinate samples, trials, marketing initiatives and joint customer engagement activities.
- Align supplier innovation pipelines with their automotive strategy to support mutual growth.
- Maintain deep understanding of automotive market trends, technology shifts and emerging applications.
- Identify opportunities arising from industry transformation, including electrification, thermal management and high-vibration environments.
- Provide insight to shape the company’s long-term automotive strategy.
Requirements
- Proven success in technical B2B sales within automotive/aerospace/defence or closely related manufacturing sectors.
- Knowledge of silicones, adhesives, tapes or related engineered materials preferred.
- Experience supporting engineering-led design-in processes.
- Comfortable operating within global customer structures.
- Strong commercial judgement and negotiation skills.
- Driven by growth and opportunity, with strong ownership mentality.
- Credible communicator with engineers and procurement teams alike.
- Structured, resilient and able to operate independently.
- Practical and solutions-focused.
- Comfortable with international travel and flexible working hours
Global Sales Manager in Birmingham employer: Key Selection Recruitment Limited
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Contact Details:
Key Selection Recruitment Limited Recruitment Team
We think you need these skills to ace Global Sales Manager in Birmingham
Technical B2B Sales
Market Understanding
Relationship Building
Project Development
Negotiation Skills
Commercial Judgement
Engineering Support
