Role: Business Development (Market Head - Motorsport )            

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: UK (Ideally commutable to Leamington Spa) 

Role ID: 2025 - 3071

Salary: £50,000- £80,000 plus car allowance and benefits (Depending on experience within the Motorsport market) 

Performance Products 

PP specialises in, low and niche volume complex, precision manufacturing of torque path components, and electromechanical products, related assemblies and solutions within Driveline and Powertrain platforms, as well industrialisation consultancy to some of the highest profile and advanced clients in Motorsport and High Performance Automotive markets. For over 50 years, Ricardo has been a trusted manufacturing partner to some of the biggest names in top-flight Motorsport, and whilst this is a global role, the main focus will be on the UK, Europe and North America.

Key Accountabilities

• To network at senior levels within Motorsport Teams and OEM’s, to hunt new opportunities within this arena.
• Create and execute both strategic and tactical sales and account management plans.
• To provide stability and performance at, or beyond budget (including profit growth) through sales for Ricardo Performance Products in the Motorsports and associated markets.
• To support colleagues in other sectors (Industrialisation Consultancy, High Performance Vehicles, Defence and Aerospace, Off-Highway & Marine).
• Direct responsibility for finding and engaging with new customers, development of commercial proposals and quotations in response to customer enquiries, working closely with Bid management, engineering & operations.
• To ensure that all potential sales opportunities are fully exploited and reasons for success / failure are understood and corrective action plans are suggested.
• To identify, qualify, develop and close New Business.
• To identify and develop opportunities for growth from within existing customers, whilst protecting and maintaining existing revenue streams.
• Ensure delivery of agreed objectives and strategic priorities in line with the business strategy.
• This role will involve taking both Ricardo’s existing capabilities and solutions, as well as driving new Green Propulsion solutions into the market where appropriate.

Operational Responsibilities

• To ensure high quality proposals are delivered to clients in a timely manner, following business processes and working closely with the Bid Manager.
• To ensure that costing and estimating for proposals are accurate.
• To own the commercial responsibility for proposal accuracy.
• To lead and develop marketing campaigns and promotional materials in line with business requirements, working closely with Marcomms Team.
• To provide detailed customer analysis and management information.
• To maintain and contribute towards the development of sales reporting tools.
• To communicate sales/business development updates in regular staff briefings and reporting as required.
• To provide monthly SOI and Revenue forecasting as part of the S&OP process.
• To update and maintain accurate and records and notes on CRM in real time.
• To travel as and when appropriate (this will involve international travel as and when required to support your business growth plans).
• Management and adherence to Ricardo and Performance Products business metrics.
• To be able to work within a matrix organisation and manage stakeholders across cross-disciplined teams, from operations, finance, marketing and the board.

Essential

• Relevant Degree (preferable) and/or demonstrable experience in a values-based sales role.
• Excellent professional proposal writing experience.
• Minimum of intermediate to advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint
• Knowledge and experience of the Top Tier Motorsport market.

Desirable 

• Strong book of contacts across Top Tier Motorsports with Team Principles, Technical Directors and Procurement.

Behavioural Competencies

• Comfortable working in a fast paced manufacturing and consultancy environment
• Self-starter
• Pro-active and Action orientated.
• Professional with high levels of integrity, and ethics.
• Problem solving
• Collaborative, Team player
• Strong attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to think tactically and strategically
• Empathy & relationship management

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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