Job Vacancy Sales Manager

Sales Manager
Honiton, Devon (5 days on-site)
Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 + Pension + Group life cover + Salary sacrifice.

Are you an experienced Sales Manager with a strong background in bids, engineering and complex programmes, looking for a pivotal on-site role supporting high-value defence and manufacturing opportunities?

This role will see you supporting the Head of Sales in the preparation and delivery of bids across a diverse portfolio of services and products. You will act as the focal point for routine bid activity, managing assigned bids from opportunity through to submission while coordinating a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

You will be responsible for developing work breakdown structures, supporting project planning and costing, maintaining sales forecasts and opportunity logs, and ensuring bids are delivered to budget, schedule and quality standards.

This is a hands-on, office-based position offering long-term stability, excellent benefits and the opportunity to work on technically challenging programmes within a well-established organisation.

The Role:

• Supporting the Head of Sales with bid preparation and delivery across the group
• Managing assigned bids and coordinating internal and external stakeholders
• Developing work breakdown structures to support planning and costing
• Maintaining sales opportunity logs, schedules and financial forecasts
• Ensuring compliance with defence bid and capture processes

The Person

• Experience in sales or bid management within engineering, manufacturing or defence
• Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Applications
• Able to commute to Honiton

Reference Number: BBBH273002

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.