Business Development Manager – Domestic

Company: AltEdge Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Chennai

Experience: 5–10 Years

Department: Business Development / Domestic

About AltEdge

AltEdge is a component sourcing and manufacturing company backed by leading VC firms in India, focused on custom metal manufacturing across castings, forgings, and machined components.

We work with a strong network of Indian MSME manufacturing partners to serve global customers with custom metal manufacturing requirements across industries such as infrastructure, mining, automotive, defence, oil & gas, and industrial manufacturing.

We are building a large-scale custom metal manufacturing platform out of India and are looking for a high-ownership Business Development Manager to help build and scale our domestic business.

About the Role The Business Development Manager – Domestic will own and build the domestic business development function for precision metal components, including forgings, castings, and machined parts.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys hunting for recent customers, building pipelines, developing relationships, and creating a business from the ground up.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in precision metal components, domestic customer acquisition, RFQs, quotations, negotiations, and industrial sales.

Key Responsibilities

- Domestic Business Development & Ownership
- Own the end-to-end domestic business development function for forgings, castings, and machined components.
- Identify target industries, industrial clusters, OEMs, Tier-1/Tier-2 suppliers, and industrial buyers.
- Develop and execute the domestic go-to-market strategy.
- Build the business from the ground up and drive pipeline, conversion, and revenue growth.
- Prospecting & Pipeline Generation
- Identify and prospect new domestic customers across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, oil & gas, defence, mining, and related sectors.
- Build systematic outbound processes using CRM, AI tools, LinkedIn, email, and sales automation platforms.
- Develop repeatable processes for lead identification, outreach, follow-ups, and pipeline tracking.
- Build a scalable lead-generation engine rather than relying only on inbound enquiries.
- Customer & Sales Management




- Leverage existing customer relationships and industry networks to generate new business opportunities.
- Manage the complete sales cycle from prospecting and enquiry to RFQ, quotation, negotiation, and order closure.
- Build long-term relationships with OEMs, procurement teams, buyers, and industrial groups.
- Work closely with costing, RFQ, sourcing, and manufacturing teams to convert opportunities into business.
- Industry Events & Market Development
- Identify relevant domestic trade shows, exhibitions, conferences, and manufacturing events.
- Plan and manage company participation in industry events.
- Coordinate stall design, marketing collateral, scheduling, lead collection, and post-event follow-up.
- Build relationships with relevant industry associations, manufacturing clusters, and business networks.
- Evaluate events and regions based on lead generation and business ROI.
- Product, Process & Pricing Understanding
- Develop a strong understanding of forgings, castings, and machined components.
- Understand basic manufacturing processes and applications across different industries.
- Understand key cost drivers, including material, processing, freight, and landed cost.
- Independently assess the basic feasibility and competitiveness of opportunities before involving the costing team.
- Data & Systems
- Maintain accurate customer, prospect, outreach, RFQ, quotation, and order data.
- Track pipeline and sales performance against targets.
- Build scalable processes and systems for the domestic business development function.
- Report business development progress, pipeline, and key metrics to leadership.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Mechanical, Industrial, or Metallurgical Engineering background is preferred but not mandatory.

Experience

- 5–10 years of experience in business development, industrial sales, or inside sales.
- Experience selling precision metal components such as forgings,



castings, machined components, or closely related industrial/engineering products.
- Strong experience in domestic customer acquisition and new business development.
- Experience handling RFQs, quotations, negotiations, and the complete sales cycle.
- Proven ability to build and manage outbound prospecting and lead-generation systems.
- Experience with CRM, AI-based prospecting, sales automation, LinkedIn/email outreach, or similar tools.
- Experience participating in or managing domestic trade shows and industry events.
- Strong existing network within the domestic manufacturing ecosystem is highly preferred.

Key Skills

- Strong understanding of forgings, castings, and machining.
- Understanding of industrial manufacturing processes.
- Basic understanding of costing and pricing.
- Customer acquisition and outbound sales.
- RFQ and quotation management.
- Negotiation and commercial skills.
- CRM and sales automation.
- AI-based prospecting and outreach.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Strong ownership and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Willingness to travel extensively across Indian industrial clusters.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building a new business category, region, or market from scratch.
- Existing relationships with domestic OEMs, Tier-1/Tier-2 suppliers, procurement teams, or industrial buyers.
- Experience in automotive, industrial, infrastructure, mining, oil & gas, defence, or related sectors.
- Experience setting up CRM, AI prospecting, LinkedIn/email sequencing, or sales automation systems.

What This Role Offers

This is a high-ownership, high-responsibility opportunity for someone who wants to build a business rather than simply manage an existing customer portfolio.

You will have significant autonomy to shape the domestic go-to-market strategy, build customer acquisition systems, develop industry relationships, and scale the business.

If you are a hunter, builder, and industrial sales professional who enjoys creating new business from scratch, we would love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can share their CV along with the following details:

- Total years of experience
- Current salary
- Expected salary
- Notice period
- Current location

📌 Business Development Manager – Domestic OEM Sales | Forgings, Castings & Machined Components Experience: 5–10 Years | Chennai
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