Consortium Professional Recruitment
- Join a growing commercial team where your success drives business growth.
Business Development Executive
Salary: £38,000 + Bonus
Location: Hull, 1 day WFH
Consortium Professional Recruitment are pleased to be working with our client to recruit a Business Development Executive. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established and growing business, taking ownership of a successful territory across the South of the UK while helping to develop opportunities within international markets.
This role is ideal for an ambitious sales professional who enjoys building relationships, identifying commercial opportunities and delivering outstanding customer service. You'll inherit an established customer base to develop while also generating new business through warm leads, outbound sales activity and strategic account development.
The Opportunity:
As a Business Development Executive, you'll play a key role in:
- Generating new business opportunities through a combination of warm leads, outbound calling and relationship building.
- Growing existing customer accounts by identifying cross-selling opportunities across a wider product portfolio.
- Managing the full customer journey from enquiry through to order fulfilment, ensuring an excellent customer experience throughout.
- Building strong relationships with customers, advertising agencies, distributors and internal stakeholders to deliver commercial success.
- Supporting tender activity, sales forecasting and business planning while consistently achieving and exceeding sales targets.
Your work will directly contribute to the continued growth of the business, helping expand market share across the UK while supporting future international opportunities.
About You:
We're looking for someone who can bring:
- At least five years' experience in a business development, sales or account management role.
- A proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets within a business-to-business environment.
- Excellent negotiation, communication and relationship-building skills.
- Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Experience of working with CRM systems and producing accurate sales forecasts.
- Confidence working independently while collaborating effectively with colleagues across different departments.
- A proactive, resilient and commercially focused mindset with a genuine passion for delivering excellent customer service.
- A full UK driving licence.
The Benefits and Package: In return, you'll enjoy:
- Salary: £38,000 + bonus
- The opportunity to manage an established customer portfolio with significant scope for growth.
- A varied and autonomous role with genuine commercial influence.
- The chance to work within a collaborative and supportive team environment.
- Ongoing opportunities for professional development and career progression.
How to Apply: This exciting Business Development Executive opportunity is being managed by Consortium Professional Recruitment, a trusted recruitment partner. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your CV attached.
Consortium Professional Recruitment Ltd are a professional level recruitment consultancy specialising in the delivery of high relevance recruitment services on behalf of our clients across the UK. We regularly receive large responses to our advertising which can make providing individual feedback to every applicant challenging. If you haven’t received a reply from us within 14 days of your application, we regret to say your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. We have a policy of retaining your details for future vacancies unless you request otherwise. To learn more about our services, please visit consortiumrecruitment.co.uk
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