Business Development Graduate - Birmingham - Summer 2025

Are you a motivated graduate looking to develop your career in sales? Then the Business Development Graduate role at KEYENCE will be a great fit for you. As a Business Development Graduate, you will be empowered to be the CEO of your territory and manage your own clients. No two days will be the same as a Business Development Graduate at KEYENCE. Three days a week will be field based, which will involve driving to client sites, demonstrating our products and selling them directly to customers. The other two days will be spent collaborating with your team in the office, calling customers to find new business opportunities and nurture already existing relationships. Your journey with KEYENCE will start with our comprehensive in-house training programme which incorporates classroom-style learning and on the job training with experienced sales mentors. This will provide you with a strong technical understanding of our products and will help you develop the commercial mindset to sell our products to clients. Training and development never stop at KEYENCE. We offer continuous training so you can keep improving your skills, such as sales skill training, leadership training, and management training. We offer continuous opportunities for you to keep improving your skills, such as sales skill training and leadership training. And our 100% promote-from-within policy means that today's graduates are the managers of tomorrow!

• Degree-educated in any discipline
• Winning mentality
• Must be eligible to work in the UK by the time the role commences.
• Must have a full driving licence, valid in the UK, Degree educated in any discipline
• Hungry to succeed and achieve targets
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Have a full driving license, valid in the UK
  
  Listed as one of Forbes Most Innovative Companies, KEYENCE has experiences rapid growth since it was founded in Japan in 1974 and is now turning over more than $8 billion global sales per year, with an operating profit of over 50%, due to our sales model!
KEYENCE are searching for ambitious graduates to join our growing UK Sales and Back-Office teams. We have multiple opportunities across our UK and Ireland offices, for immediate and summer start dates in 2025. If you are applying to join our sales team, you'll receive commercial and product training during your first 4-8 weeks to become a specialist in one of our innovative product ranges. Following this, you will have the responsibility of your own sales territory and customer base, including some of the main blue-chip manufacturers. However, the training for all roles doesn't stop at the initial stages. As KEYENCE operate on a 100% promote from within policy, we invest in developing our employees to help them succeed and advance in their career.


• Starting Salary - £33,000 + Location Allowance
• Quarterly Bonus (Guaranteed minimum bonus year 1 = £5,000)
• Company Car for Business and Personal Use
• Advanced Company Pension with Aviva
• Life & Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Healthcare (including audiological, dental and optical cover, as well as subsidised Gym Membership)
• Full Expensed Business Travel and Accommodation
• Laptop and Mobile Phone