Business Development Consultant

National Skills Agency; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading skills and training organization based in Scunthorpe is seeking a Sales and Marketing professional to enhance their function. Responsibilities include delivering consultative sales experiences, achieving targets, and developing proposals. Successful candidates will have strong sales skills and the ability to build relationships. Attractive benefits include a bonus scheme, pension contributions, and extensive annual leave.

Benefits

Attractive bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Private health care

Free on-site parking

Branded workwear

42 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Strong sales experience, preferably in a consultative role.
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a first-class consultative sales experience.
• Achieve agreed personal sales targets.
• Develop and deliver sales presentations to clients.
• Maintain regular contact with prospects and customers.
• Manage personal pipeline of opportunities.
• Develop business proposals for clients.

Job description

Overview

Our client is looking for someone to strengthen the Sales and Marketing function and to build and maintain relationships with external client companies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a first-class consultative sales experience to prospects and customers across the range of products and services.
• Achieve agreed personal sales targets across the range of products and services.
• Develop and deliver sales presentations using a range of media and techniques to achieve successful outcomes.
• Maintain regular, effective and timely interventions with all prospects and customers ensuring that all contact is recorded in the CRM.
• Manage personal pipeline of opportunities to ensure achievement of personal objectives and contribution to team targets.
• Develop business proposals for prospects and customers.
• Carry out sales meetings with prospects and customers.
• Gather and share intelligence to support strategic and operational planning.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with management, co-workers, learners, companies, and the general public.
• Adhere to stated policies and procedures relating to health and safety, and quality management that are applicable to the role.
• Arrange and participate in meetings, team events, staff meetings, and open days/events. This includes the taking of minutes when requested by management.
• Arrange and organise (or assist with) events to promote the organisation, its apprentices/trainees, and its achievements, to include effective communication with all stakeholders ensuring all relevant information is passed on and understood.
• Any other duties commensurate with this post.

Benefits

• An attractive bonus scheme dependent on achieving sales KPIs.
• Pension scheme which is 5% employee contribution and 7% HETA contribution
• Life insurance (4 x annual salary)
• Private health care (after a 3 month qualifying period).
• Free on-site parking.
• Branded workwear.
• 42 days annual leave (including bank holidays). We ask that all staff save 7 days to take during the Christmas shut down between Christmas and New Year. Holidays can be requested at any other time of the year (we do not work school term times).

Working hours are: Monday - Thursday 8:00 - 4:15 and Friday 8:00 - 4:00. However, we expect a degree of flexibility to meet the demands of the business.