Business Development Manager - Advanced Materials

This is a remote position.

Overview

Business Development Manager – Advanced Materials

Remote – anywhere in the UK

This role offers the opportunity to be at the commercial forefront of a breakthrough materials technology as it transitions from technical validation into real-world deployment. The Business Development Manager will work with technically capable customers on problems that matter, shaping how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are evaluated, adopted, and integrated across multiple industries. For someone experienced in complex, solution-led sales, this role provides autonomy, influence, and visibility, along with the chance to help define new markets rather than simply compete in established ones. The position offers meaningful collaboration with senior technical and commercial leaders, including direct partnership with the Commercial Director on high-impact opportunities.

Responsibilities

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role focused on progressing complex, technically informed commercial opportunities from early interest into credible, well-defined outcomes. Promethean receives a wide range of enquiries, including:

• Academic and R&D groups looking to manufacture MOFs beyond lab scale
• Engineering-led organisations and EPCs exploring MOFs as a new chemical within complex systems
• Industrial companies assessing MOFs for applications such as carbon capture, gas separation and upgrading, water harvesting, energy storage, and related areas

Your role is to bring structure, judgement, and momentum to this demand. Day to day, that means:

• Qualifying and prioritising inbound enquiries to identify those with genuine technical and commercial potential
• Engaging early with customers to understand their systems, constraints, and objectives, often where applications and requirements are still evolving
• Working closely with Promethean’s technical teams to shape credible use cases, trial scopes, and pathways to industrial evaluation and adoption
• Progressing opportunities through multi-stage, multi-stakeholder processes, including evaluations, pilots, development agreements, and longer-term commercial frameworks
• Making pragmatic decisions about where to invest time and effort, and where not to

You will work closely with the Commercial Director, who leads the largest and most strategic customer relationships, while independently owning and progressing a portfolio of earlier-stage or mid-sized opportunities. This is not a volume-driven sales role. Success comes from quality of engagement, clarity of thinking, and credibility with industry-leading customers.

Who this role is for

This role will suit someone who is comfortable operating in complex, engineering-led commercial environments, where solutions are not fully defined at the outset. In practice, this role tends to work best for people who have experience:

• Selling into EPC organisations, engineering contractors, or system integrators
• Working in or alongside speciality chemicals, advanced materials, or process technology businesses
• Managing longer, exploratory sales cycles involving multiple technical and commercial stakeholders

You are likely to be comfortable:

• Engaging with senior engineers, scientists, and commercial leaders as peers
• Selling where the customer is still shaping the problem, not just selecting a supplier
• Collaborating closely with technical teams to develop realistic, credible solutions
• Operating with ambiguity and exercising judgement rather than following a fixed sales playbook

You do not need prior experience with MOFs. You do need commercial seriousness, technical curiosity, and the ability to operate credibly with experienced, demanding customers.

Why this is a strong career move

• You will help shape how an entire class of advanced materials moves from research-led promise into industrial evaluation and adoption
• You will work on applications with long-term significance, including decarbonisation, resource efficiency, and energy systems
• You will have autonomy and visibility, without being isolated, supported by senior technical and commercial leadership
• You will be judged on the quality of opportunities shaped and decisions made, not just short-term revenue

After a year, success looks like a small number of well-defined, credible commercial pathways with serious customers — and recognition as someone who can operate calmly and effectively at the intersection of technology, engineering, and emerging markets.

Practical details

• Location: Remote, anywhere in the UK (travel as required)
• Right to work: You must have the unrestricted right to work in the UK

About Promethean Particles

Promethean Particles is a world-leading specialist in the synthesis and industrial-scale production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Using proprietary continuous-flow manufacturing technology, the company produces high-quality, cost-effective MOFs that were previously only achievable at laboratory scale. By overcoming longstanding barriers around scale, consistency, and cost, Promethean is enabling MOFs to be evaluated and deployed in real-world industrial applications, including carbon capture, gas separation and upgrading, water harvesting, and energy storage. The company is technically strong, well funded, and realistic about the challenges of early-stage commercialisation, valuing substance, judgement, and long-term impact over hype.

Interested? If you are motivated by serious commercial work with real technical depth, and want to help shape how a breakthrough materials technology is adopted in the real world, we would like to hear from you.