Business Development Executive | £36k + £5k bonus

Office Angels; Ashford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

A day off for your birthday

EV Company car or allowance

Free on-site parking

Healthshield

Job summary

Office Angels is proud to recruit for a Business Development Executive, joining a successful design and manufacturing business in Ashford. In this front-end commercial role, you will create opportunities and work closely with a Regional Business Manager to develop a healthy sales pipeline.

The position requires experience in B2B sales and a proactive approach to building client relationships. The successful candidate will enjoy benefits such as 25 days annual leave, a bonus scheme, and transportation assistance.

Qualifications

• Experience in a B2B sales or business development role.
• Confidence in getting in front of customers and building relationships.
• Commercially aware and able to work in a fast-paced role.

Responsibilities

• Create and develop opportunities within the market.
• Work with a Regional Business Manager to build a pipeline.
• Maintain a high level of market activity and relationship building.

Skills

B2B sales experience

Technical or construction background

Confidence in customer engagement

Excellent organisational skills

Job description

We're really proud to be recruiting exclusively for this new position as a Business Development Executive on behalf of a hugely successful design and manufacturing business.

Reasons to work at this company

• 25 days annual leave
• A day off for your birthday
• EV Company car or allowance
• Free on-site parking
• Perkbox
• Healthshield
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Open plan offices, with large windows and modern office equipment
• Opportunities to develop your skills and career

Location

Near Ashford, Kent (Your own transport is required due to the location of this company).

Salary

£32,000 - £36,000 + up to £5,000 bonus based on performance.

Hours

Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm, with 1 hour for lunch.

The Role

This is a front-end commercial role focused on creating and developing opportunities.

You will work closely with a Regional Business Manager to build a pipeline, open doors with customers, develop opportunities early, and support deals through to conversion. The role operates as part of a tag team approach, where you focus on generating and progressing opportunities, working in tandem with the Regional Business Manager as opportunities develop. You will not be producing quotations or closing deals but will play a key role in generating and developing opportunities and supporting the overall conversion process.

Key Responsibilities

• Pipeline Creation and Market Activity
• Identify and develop new opportunities across main contractors, industry consultants, and end clients.
• Proactively generate leads, secure meetings, and build initial relationships.
• Maintain a high level of external activity including calls, meetings, site visits, and networking.
• Work on opportunities from early stage through to qualified pipeline.
• Ensure opportunities are understood, properly qualified, and actively progressed.
• Collaborate with the Regional Business Manager as opportunities develop and move closer to conversion.
• Act as an initial point of contact for new opportunities.
• Build relationships with contractors, consultants, and end users.
• Work closely with the Regional Business Manager to progress live opportunities.
• Support ongoing client engagement, follow‑ups, and coordination of activity.
• Help maintain momentum on opportunities to ensure they continue to move forward.
• Work closely with estimators to ensure quotes are delivered in a timely and accurate way.
• Provide clear and relevant information from client discussions to support the quoting process.
• Act as a link between the client, the Regional Business Manager, and estimating.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date information within the CRM system.
• Be able to explain the current position of opportunities and what needs to happen next.

Candidate Profile

• Experience in a B2B sales or business development role
• Experience in a technical, construction, engineering, or services‑led environment
• Confidence in getting in front of customers and building relationships
• A proactive approach with the ability to create opportunities, not just respond to them
• Excellent organisational skills to be organised and structured, with the ability to manage multiple opportunities
• Commercially aware
• The ability to work in a fast‑paced, externally focused role

Equal Opportunity Statement

Office Angels is an equal‑opportunities employer who puts expertise, energy and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities and more. By showcasing talents, skills and unique experiences in an inclusive environment, we help individuals thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.