Business Development Executive

• Role: Business Development Executive
• Company: UK's Leading Technical and Digital Skills Organisation
• Location: Manchester - Hybrid
• Salary: 32k Basic £45k OTE - uncapped
• Fantastic Company with industry leading training and career prospects
• Ideal Candidates will have 12 months + B2B Sales experience

Client:

Our client helps many of the world’s leading companies to build their tech and digital capabilities via their leading range of training courses, reskilling bootcamps, and work-based learning programmes & apprenticeships. They also create bespoke solutions, blending elements to meet specific client needs.

Role:

Within their Tech Apprenticeship division your primary focus is to develop new and grow existing customer relationships using the sales techniques gained from our clients in-house training programme to deliver against specific, measurable targets

Duties:

• Identify and liaise with key stakeholders/decision makers for both new & existing customers bytelephone and email in order to maximise sales opportunities

• Prospect for new customers whilst maintaining and growing your existing customer base in order to create and close sales opportunities

• Input, analyse and interpret all relevant sales management information to prioritise incomingworkload and qualify sales opportunities

• Prepare quotes and proposals for customers

• Use relevant data to fully report on sales activity

• Deliver high levels of customer service which result in positive feedback from both internal andexternal stakeholders

• Constantly develop a deeper understanding/knowledge of your product offering and sales techniques

About You:

• Persuasive verbal and written communication style

• Ability to plan and prioritise your workload efficiently and effectively in order to achieve targets

• Confidently recognise when issues or opportunities arise that require resolution through owninitiative or escalation

• Ability to work under pressure, whilst multi-tasking effectively

• High degree of attention to detail

• Track record of achieving sales targets

• B2B sales experience dealing with internal or external stakeholders/decision makers by email, telephoneand face to face – ideally 12 months +

• Working to tight deadlines where high level of accuracy are required

• Experience of resolving or offering solutions to queries

• Proficient in using IT systems e.g. Client Relationships Management systems

• Proficient in Microsoft Office