Overview

Job Location: Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire

Job Type: Permanent

Posted: Friday, 19th September 2025

Job Title: Business Development Manager - Defence Sector

Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Salesperson to concentrate on promoting prefabricated facilities / modular data centres into the defence sector. You will be tasked with client engagement to build upon an already healthy pipeline within Defence, MOD, NATO, and US DoD programmes.

Responsibilities

• Developing a strategy to target UK, US, and European defence organisations.
• Build relationships with defence procurement bodies, primes, integrators, security agencies etc.
• Identify opportunities for modular / prefabricated data centres, secure enclosures, SCIFs, etc.
• Working with internal teams to deliver winning proposals.
• Represent the client at networking opportunities (defence trade events, briefings, site visits) in the UK & EU.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of how the military works
• Demonstrable sales experience
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and procurement frameworks (e.g., UK NPSA, HMG SPF, US ICD-705, DoD MATOCs, GSA) would be advantageous
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Willingness to travel throughout UK and Europe

Salary & Benefits

Salary: Excellent package depending on experience including good basic, excellent commission and car allowance

Location & Travel

Location: Can live anywhere on mainland Great Britain but training and monthly visits to their West Midlands will be expected.

This role is commutable from: Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Burton Upon Trent, West Bromwich, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester, Cambridge, Bristol

Alternative Titles

• BDM - Defence Sales
• Sales Engineer - Modular Communications
• Business Development - MoD
• BDM - Prefabricated Data Centres
• Sales Manager - Military Servers

About Mana Resourcing

Mana Resourcing is a specialist recruitment company working within the Engineering, Sales, IT and Commercial sectors. We are established to service and support the recruitment requirements of modern businesses and candidates alike.

Contact

Phone : 01572 821 985

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