Business Development Administrator

Qoob

Kettering

Hybrid

GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

23 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Vitality Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Death in Service Cover

Regular company team-building days

Job summary

A dynamic marketing agency in Kettering is looking for a confident Business Development Administrator to manage CRM and support sales efforts. This full-time role involves nurturing leads, making outbound calls, and assisting with LinkedIn outreach. The ideal candidate should have sales experience, be tech-savvy, and thrive in a team environment. Benefits include private medical insurance, health cash plan, and a work-life balance culture.

Qualifications

Experience in a sales role is essential.
Proactive attitude and ability to manage tasks independently.
Comfortable working in a team-oriented, agency environment.

Responsibilities

Manage and update Pipedrive CRM.
Make outbound sales calls to potential clients.
Assist with LinkedIn outreach for lead nurturing.

Skills

Sales experience

Organizational skills

Confidence on the phone

Tech-savvy

Ability to work in an agency environment

Tools

Pipedrive

Apollo.io

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a confident, proactive Business Development Administrator to keep our sales engine running smoothly. You’ll be the main connector between inbound and outbound activity, managing our CRM, nurturing leads, and making sure no opportunity slips through the cracks. You’ll also play a key role in supporting the Managing Director with outreach efforts, especially on LinkedIn and via Direct Cold Calls. This is a full-time role (Mon-Fri) based in the office in Kettering with an expectation of 3 days in the office. Part-time considered at a pro-rata rate.

Key Responsibilities

CRM Ownership: Maintain and update our Pipedrive CRM, making sure every lead, contact and deal is tracked and followed up.
Apollo Data Management: Using Apollo.io for data-mining to identify target contacts for sales activity.
Phone Line Management: Answer inbound calls that come through to the sales line and handle them initially, or route them appropriately.
Outbound Sales Calls: Make initial and follow-up calls to prospective clients, book discovery meetings for MD & Marketing Ops Director to handle, and re-engage cold leads.
Lead Management: Help identify and nurture sales prospects in line with our Ideal Client Profile.
LinkedIn Support: Assist the MD with outreach and follow-up messaging to high-value prospects on LinkedIn.
Sales Coordination: Support the sales process end-to-end, ensuring the MD, Marketing Ops Director and wider team have all the information they they need to close deals.
Team Collaboration: Work closely with marketing and delivery teams to ensure alignment on prospects, outbound campaigns, and client fit.
Proposal Assistance: Work with the wider team to prepare sales proposals, and develop our overall sales proposal output.

About You

You’ve experience in a sales role
You’re naturally organised, confident on the phone, and enjoy speaking to people.
You’re proactive and you don’t wait to be asked, you see what needs doing and get on with it.
You’re tech-savvy, with experience in CRM tools (Pipedrive experience is a plus).
You’re able to keep things structured, even when there’s a lot going on.
You’re comfortable working in an agency environment.
You care about getting things right and want to work somewhere that values improvement and impact.

Why Join Qoob?

We’re not a high-pressure, stressful, working environment, we value a work/life balance, but that doesn’t meant that we don’t work hard and that we aren’t busy.

It means that we respect each other's contributions to the business and all do our best to support each other. The expectation is that we work hard to achieve shared goals. We’re a small, close-knit team of 10 so those who don’t pull their weight have nowhere to hide, and those that work hard get seen and celebrated.

In terms of the people we want to work with; we guide emerging ecommerce brands through some of the most pivotal points in their growth journey. That means our work is strategic, challenging, and impactful. The work we do makes a real and rewarding difference for our clients.

You’ll be joining a tight-knit, ambitious team where your voice is heard and your ideas matter. This role is perfect for someone who wants to grow with a business that’s recently undergone a huge transformation to really focus on what we’re good at.

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