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Element has an opportunity for a new Business Development Associate to represent our Warringtonfire business. In this role you will be an inside seller, responsible for establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a defined group of clients and prospects. This is a great time to join us - leading, global player within the Testing, Inspection and Certification industry.
Come join our growing team in 2026!
Our new Business Development Associate will expand business with dormant and existing accounts, responsible for 30-70 quotations per week. This is a customer-focused roles, assuring customer satisfaction while continuously and effectively interacting with our site General Manager as well as our Sales and our lab / technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Establish and proactively maintain a strong professional relationships with key decision makers
- Identify current and future customer service requirements, driving to access the full potential of each opportunity
- Ensure timely follow up with customers and stakeholders
- Utilise our CRM to record activities
- Participate in regular pipeline reviews
- Achieve sales goals on a monthly and quarterly basis
- Business Development, Sales or Account Management experience is required
- Ability to produce weekly and monthly sales reports
- Strong communicator - with customers via phone and email
- Passionate about solving practical customer problems
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Flexibility to represent the company at a broad range of events
- Comfortable managing multiple streams of work, ability to prioritise effectively and liaise with various stakeholders and customers at all levels
- Please note that some ad hoc overnight travel may be required
For more information on Element's BUILT division, check out our e- brochure: https://indd.adobe.com/view/7032c5bd-3645-4c48-86d4-b568d53de400
A little more on what we offer:
33 days annual holiday | 4 x Life Assurance | L&G Pension scheme | Element Academy L&D opportunities | Paid Volunteering opportunities | Cycle to Work Scheme | Free Onsite Refreshments | Colleague Resource Networks | Refer a Friend Bonus scheme | Perks At Work Discount Scheme
Diversity StatementAt Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.
All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.
Skills Required
- Business development, sales, or account management experience
- Ability to produce weekly and monthly sales reports
- Strong customer communication skills by phone and email
- Ability to solve practical customer problems
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Teams, Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Ability to represent the company at a broad range of events
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize effectively, and liaise with stakeholders and customers
- Ability to undertake occasional overnight travel
Element Materials Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are highlighted, with flexibility to use time off in many teams. This breadth of options adds practical value beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employee Assistance Program support, recognition programs, and “Smarter Working” flexibility are featured as part of the package. These offerings support day-to-day wellbeing and work–life fit.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in certain roles and markets, with location-based variation enabling stronger packages for some. This creates opportunities to land better-aligned offers when role and site match well.
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What We Do
The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals, and into production ensuring their products are safe and sustainable, and achieve market access. In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow Element’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.
