Business Development Manager - Midlands

Veolia; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services company in the UK seeks a Business Development Manager to drive sales of advanced water purification solutions. The role involves identifying new business opportunities and building strategic partnerships across laboratory, healthcare, and industrial sectors. Candidates should have strong sales experience and a background in related fields. This position offers a competitive salary package along with a company car and incentives.

Benefits

Holiday allowance of 26 days plus Bank Holidays

Private Healthcare

Discounted Gym Memberships

Leading pension contribution of 10%

Qualifications

• Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Background in water purification, medical equipment, or laboratory equipment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify and secure new business opportunities.
• Build relationships with clients across various sectors.
• Collaborate with design and proposals teams to meet client needs.

Skills

Strong sales experience

Self‑motivated

Job description

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specialising in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonisation, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Purite as a business is dedicated to the sustainable management of water, our mostvital resource. As part of the Veolia group, we are committed to innovation, quality,and ecological transformation in water treatment solutions. Our foundation inproviding purified water systems spans laboratories, a wide range of industries fromfood & beverage through to microelectronics and the healthcare market includingCSSD, Endoscopy, and Renal departments, with expertise in boxed products throughto designing and installing turnkey project.

Job Description

Business Development Manager - Midlands, UK
To £45,000 DOE plus company car andSales Incentive Bonus

We are recruiting for a Business Development Manager to extend our reach in the Midlands territory.
We design, develop, and manufacture advanced water purification solutions for laboratory, healthcare, and industrial applications worldwide.
The successful candidate will identify new business opportunities, build strategic partnerships, and promote our cutting‑edge water purification solutions to laboratory, healthcare, and industrial clients.

The role comes with a company car and Sales Incentive Bonus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive sales and business growth by identifying and securing new business opportunities
• Build relationships with clients across various sectors, offering standard products and bespoke water purification solutions.
• Collaborate closely with our design and proposals teams to meet client needs effectively.
• Engage in product demonstrations, attend exhibitions, and provide market feedback to support our innovation efforts.
• Embrace our ethos of sustainability, working towards our collective mission of ecological transformation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement through interpreting customer feedback and proactively suggesting product improvements or gaps in the market.

Travel Requirements: Regular travel throughout the Midlands territory with occasional national travel/overnight stays for company events

Qualifications

• Strong sales experience
• A valid driver’s license and willingness to travel (company car provided)
• Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently.

If you have a background in water purification, medical equipment or laboratory equipment, Industrial process equipment, or have previously sold to hospitals and laboratories, we consider these skills very transferable.

Additional Information

What are the benefits?

At Veolia, we know that at certain crucial moments in life, we all need a little help, protection and support. That's why we are proud to offer our innovative Veolia Cares program, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees. From the very first day of employment, this commitment is reflected in an array of benefits that is generous, and relevant. These include:

Health & Welfare:

• Holiday allowance 26 days plus Bank Holidays with the option to buy or sell additional days off
• Private Healthcare - currently BUPA, with an option to add your family members
• Dental Plan providing cover or monetary cash back on appointments and treatments
• Enhanced Maternity / Primary Care pay of 13 weeks full pay from Day 1
• Enhanced Paternity / Secondary Care pay of 2 weeks full pay from Day 1
• Adoption Leave of 13 weeks full pay for Parental, and 2 weeks full Co-parental pay from day 1 of employment
• Support for Carers offering flexibility for longer term caring needs such as considering options of remote work, flexible work hours, adjusted schedules, and paid or unpaid leave
• A Lifestyle Account where we put in £60 to start you off, then match you £ for £ on every activity you buy up to £360
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• All employees receive one day of paid volunteering leave per year

Monetary Benefits:

• Leading pension contribution of 10% of your earnings from us every month, doubling your own contribution of 5%
• Option to buy shares at preferential rates
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes

The Bigger Picture - protecting you and your loved ones in the longer term

• Life Insurance providing you 4 x your salary as a benefit paid to your nominated person(s)
• Income Protection that covers you for 5 years at up to 60% of your salary, with 2 x your salary as a lump sum should you be unable to return to work.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.