Business Development Executive
Business Development Executive
Permanent
Up to £30,000 per annum D.O.E
Are you a self-motivated people person looking for an opportunity to make a sales role your own? Would you like to utilise your honed communication skills in a role in order to build, nurture and maximise relationships? Do you value working autonomously as part of a supportive team?
If so, then our client may have the role for you.
Our client is looking for a Business Development Executive to join themselves at an exciting time in the Company’s growth to assist them in continuing to deliver an outstanding service to their clients.
About Our Client
They are one of the leading experts in specialised people tracing and asset repatriation services worldwide and their expertise and reputation for quality has been developed over 50 years.
They work for a diverse range of clients including professional services firms, financial institutions, and public bodies, from all sectors.
What you’ll be doing
You will join the team and through training, develop an understanding of the business across its core solution areas in order to build, nurture and maximise solicitor firm relationships by phone, email and social media across all services. You will work in line with strategy plans as set out and agreed with your Line Manager to drive lead generation and meet the business’ sales targets.
Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Take responsibility for and be held accountable for challenging growth targets
- Identify and create new solicitor firm relationships
- Support field-based activity by engaging with clients to arrange in-situ presentations for technical staff
- Work with marketing to understand when campaigns are going out and ensure activity is aligned with the marketing messages
- Follow-up with clients on all marketing activity, including webinars, events and digital outreach
- Follow-up on lost leads to help build market intelligence and regularly collate findings for management review
- Monitor competitor activity to help build market intelligence
- Develop and build the business’ client base through a range of activities and maintain aligned databases
- Deliver against set targets
- Develop and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with their solicitor clients
- Work constructively with all internal departments to resolve any day-to-day issues
- Assist with issues or escalations as needed
The ideal candidate:
They understand you may not have all of the below skills or experience, but they will encourage you to apply if you have some of the below:
- Previous experience in a sales or target driven role, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
- Problem solving skills, including objection handling
- Ability to embrace change and support process improvements
- Experience of working to set KPI’s and objectives
What they can offer you:
- 25 days Holiday Entitlement (Increasing annually to 30)
- Buy up to 5 days holiday per year
- Health Cash Plan – Cash back for Dental, optical, and other treatments
- PERKS – Employee discounts across a range of high street products.
- Salary sacrifice benefit options such as Dental
- Income protection insurance
- Life assurance policy
- Company pension (Matched contribution up to 5%)
- 12 weeks Enhanced Parental leave policy
- Cycle to work scheme
Need to know:
- Salary: up to 30K per annum D.O.E
- Location: Bristol City Centre, On-site
- Hours: Typical office hours are 9am – 5pm (flexible working supported)
- Start date: Flexible, ASAP preferred
Equality and Diversity
Our client is committed to equality and diversity in employment and all their activities. They ensure that all successful applicants are selected based on their relevant merits and experience and that people are given equal opportunities within the workplace.
If this opportunity excites you and you’d like to consider joining them, please apply today with your CV!