Business Development Manager - Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles

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Romeo, MI, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Aerospace • Automotive • Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Develops strategic relationships and drives revenue growth in the commercial and off-highway vehicle market. Responsibilities include acquiring customers, expanding existing accounts, analyzing market and competitor trends, negotiating complex agreements, forecasting pipeline activity, attending industry events, and collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, operations, and legal teams to commercialize solutions. Requires technical product sales experience, strong communication and negotiation skills, and travel up to 40% of the time.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Title: Business Development Manager (Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles) 

Date: Jan 2026

Reports to: Director of Business Development


Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority. 

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.



Duties / Responsibilities of this position: 

Key activities and deliverables for this position include:

  • Identify, develop, and manage strategic relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors, and other key industry players in Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles market.
  • Drive revenue growth through new customer acquisition, upselling, and cross-selling to existing partners.
  • Analyze market trends, customer needs, and competitor activity to identify opportunities and inform go-to-market strategies.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, marketing, operations) to deliver tailored solutions for clients.
  • Negotiate and close complex deals with industry stakeholders, ensuring profitability and long-term partnership value.
  • Attend trade shows, industry conferences, and networking events to represent the company and build new connections. 
  • Provide ongoing reporting and forecasting related to business development efforts, pipeline progress, and revenue targets.
  • Collaborate with legal counsel and business management to develop customer agreements / contracts (e.g., supply agreements, commercial agreements, memorandums of understanding, joint development agreements, etc.) to align incentives, safeguard volumes, and strengthen customer relationships.
  • Support development of our product strategy by identifying customer unmet needs, sharing those needs and other competitive intelligence with key stakeholders (e.g., application engineering, R&D, etc.) and participating in Product Development Process (PDP) as needed to drive commercialization of new offerings to enable profitable growth.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

  • Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and education in technically relevant discipline
  • Experience working with manufacturers and customers in Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles to include Agriculture, Construction, Material Handling & other specialty vehicles, required. 
  • Preferred experience in the agriculture industry.
  • Proven track record of selling technical materials and products
  • Ability to communicate effectively along with strong presentation skills
  • Ability to maintain and develop new relationships, negotiating skills; ability to influence customer decisions
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Attention to detail, financial management, and ability to problem solve.
  • Willingness to travel, locally and internationally up to 40% of time
Core Competencies: 
  • Ambitious / Self-Starter
  • Hunting Mentality
  • Performance Driven
  • Communication
  • Customer Centric
  • Innovation
  • Safety/Sustainability
  • Collaboration

Physical Demands Analysis: 

  • Continuous sitting at desk
  • Continuous computer work, keyboarding, computer mouse, and computer monitor
  • Frequent carrying, pushing and pulling up to 25 lbs.
  • Occasional standing and walking
  • Rare climbing stairs, bending, and stooping
  • Occasional domestic travel required 
  • Occasional travel by plane and car 
  • Personal Protective Equipment Requirements (PPE): safety shoes, safety glasses, cut-resistant gloves, hearing protection, and other PPEs required by customers
  • Inside Work – continuous 
  • Outside Work – occasional
  • Hot/Cold – occasional 
  • Humid/Dry – occasional
  • Dust/Vapor Fumes – rare 
  • Hazardous Machines – rare
  • Moving Objects – rare 
  • Loud Noise – rare

Environmental Conditions:


Never = Not Required/Never (0%)

Rare = Seldom/Rare (Not daily – 1-10%)

Occasional = Minor/Occasional (Less than 3 hours – 11-33%)

Frequent = Required/Frequent (For 3-5 hours – 34-64%)

Continuous = Major/Continuous (More than 5 hours – 64-100%)


Benefits
  • Excellent total compensation package
  • 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision
  • Generous 401K contributions
  • Top-notch wellness program with a focus on your total well-being
Equal Opportunity Employer

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship. 


Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience and education in a technically relevant discipline
  • Experience working with manufacturers and customers in commercial and off-highway vehicles, including agriculture, construction, material handling, or specialty vehicles
  • Experience in the agriculture industry
  • Proven track record selling technical materials and products
  • Effective communication and strong presentation skills
  • Ability to develop relationships and influence customer decisions
  • Negotiation skills
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Attention to detail, financial management, and problem-solving ability
  • Willingness to travel locally and internationally up to 40% of the time
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The Company
HQ: Romeo, MI
100 Employees
Year Founded: 1958

What We Do

L&L Products is a family-owned, business-to-business applied engineering and materials science company. It develops customized and standard material and engineering solutions for static sealing, acoustic improvement, vibration reduction, structural reinforcement, and composite components. Serving automotive, aerospace, commercial vehicle, rail, and industrial customers, it combines research and development, materials science, engineering, prototyping, testing, and global manufacturing to deliver lighter, stronger, quieter products.

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