px Group

Business Development Director

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Job Description

Business Development Director

Application Deadline: 22 July 2026

Department: Business Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Stockton on Tees

Reporting To: Group Business Development Director

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com

Our Head Office is based in Stockton-on-Tees and is home to our administrative support teams, engineering & maintenance support team & energy services teams. The Offices are located on the river Tees with close access to walks, shops and restaurants.

The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for an UK O&M Business Development Director.

The primary function of the role is to provide BD leadership for existing and new customers in the UK. In this role you will ensure the continued growth and success of the px group O&M business in the UK, including the identification and research of opportunities and the conversion of the same into commercial contracts.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Target key new opportunities, identifying client requirements, risk, technical and commercial solutions, as well as fronting the client relationship development.
  • Work with the bid team to support the generation of proposals documentation. Provide internal teams with the information required to create bids / answer RFI’s to support the bid manager activities, and external clients with presentations of proposed and identified project O&M solutions.
  • Support the Group BD Director with metrics (weekly and monthly along with year-end status reports), presentation and budgeting / forecasting activities and logging of opportunities and communications via HubSpot.
  • Proactive development, contact and management of existing and new clients
  • Accountable for developing and converting new projects opportunities for the business
  • More responsibilities can be found on the Role Profile.

Minimum Requirements

  • Degree qualified in relevant technical or business management discipline, or equivalent
  • Experience gained in a similar industrial environment
  • Strong understanding of process plant operation, and understand the nature of managing operations in a high hazard environment or industry
  • Previous experience of Business Development / or selling ‘service’ based solutions
  • Knowledge of commercial contracting
  • Strong background in Business Development and developing clients
  • Able to set own workload and targets

What you will receive from us

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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