BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE – RECRUITMENT Elite Personnel

Student Pages Media Group Limited; Sutton Coldfield; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

23 days holiday

Immediate start

Sutton Coldfield location

Job summary

Elite Personnel in Birmingham North is seeking a Business Development Executive to drive new business for the agency’s recruitment team. This pure BD role focuses on identifying and approaching potential clients, winning vacancies, and building long-term relationships with hiring managers, HR teams, and directors.

The role offers either full-time or part-time hours, with immediate start and a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to win new business and develop accounts.
• Experience in recruitment or a related sales role is desirable.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable making outbound calls and attending events.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and approach potential clients.
• Win temporary and permanent recruitment vacancies for the agency.
• Make outbound business development calls and attend events.
• Build relationships with businesses across sectors and speak with decision-makers.
• Negotiate terms and arrange meetings to introduce recruitment services.
• Collaborate with recruitment team to fill vacancies you generate.
• Work towards new-business targets and KPIs.

Skills

Business development

New business acquisition

Cold calling

Networking

Negotiation

Account management

Job description

Are you an experienced recruitment professional who loves winning new business, but no longer wants the day-to-day responsibility of running a recruitment desk?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Executive to join an established recruitment business based in North Birmingham This is a pure business development role - NOT a Recruitment Consultant position.

The Role

Your focus will be simple - bring new business into the agency for our recruitment team to fill.

You will be responsible for:

• Proactively identifying and approaching potential new clients
• Winning temporary and permanent recruitment vacancies
• Making outbound business development calls
• Networking attending events
• Building relationships with businesses across a variety of sectors
• Speaking confidently with contacts at all levels, from hiring managers and HR teams through to Directors and business owners
• Following up leads and identifying new recruitment opportunities
• Re-establishing relationships with previous and dormant clients
• Arranging meetings and introducing the agency’s recruitment services
• Negotiating and agreeing terms
• Working closely with the recruitment team, who will take responsibility for sourcing and filling the vacancies you bring in
• Working towards agreed new-business targets and KPIs

Who Are We Looking For?

You will ideally already have recruitment industry experience and a proven track record of successfully developing new business.

You may be an experienced Recruitment Consultant who has always particularly enjoyed the sales and business development side of recruitment and is now looking for a new direction where you can concentrate purely on winning business.

You’ll need to be:

• Confident, driven, resilient and commercially minded, with the ability to pick up the phone, open doors and build genuine long-term client relationships.
• Most importantly, you will enjoy the challenge of turning a cold prospect into a new client and a new vacancy!
• Car owner driver

What’s On Offer?

• Full-time or part-time hours considered
• Immediate start available
• 22 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Business closed over Christmas
• Workplace pension
• Sutton Coldfield location
• Support from an experienced recruitment team
• An opportunity to focus on sales and business development without having to manage a recruitment desk

If you have worked successfully within recruitment and are looking for a role where you can concentrate on what you do best – winning new business – we’d love to hear from you.

Please note: We aim to respond to successful applicants within 48 hours. As part of our recruitment and compliance process, successful candidates will be required to provide a copy of their UK Right to Work documentation, a selfie for identification purposes, and complete an Elite Personnel application form.