an exciting opportunity has arisen for a commercially focused sales manager airframes to join an expanding international manufacturer and supplier located in dorset my client operates within the aerospace sector and the appointed candidate will be responsible for creating building and maintaining relationships with a range of oem aircraft manufacturers in order to drive airframe sales reporting to the airframes product line manager the successful candidate will hold the following responsibilities lead the development of close relationships with key customers such that customer needs are well understood and translated into products and services that provide profitable business growth to maintain order intake and sales forecasts identifying price increases and new business opportunities to develop and maintain a business development strategy for products and services that is aligned with strategies for developing key customers to support other business development team members by sharing knowledge and personal skills with the aim of enhancing overall performance through effective teamwork to establish effective relationships both internal and external at all levels to ensure future profitable growth of the business the successful candidate must be educated to a good standard preferably to degree level in a businessrelated or engineering discipline all candidates interested in the role must hold extensive experience in an aerospace sales marketingbusiness development environment excellent people management skills are a must as are fantastic negotiation skills experience and operational knowledge of cargo management and safety practices would be highly advantageous within the role my client is looking to offer a basic salary of circa bonus and a competitive car allowance there are excellent opportunities to progress within this organisation this job was originally posted as wwwtotaljobscomjobseekingsalesmanageraerospacejob