Business Development Manager

Hiring People; Crawley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Carnegie Group is seeking a proactive Business Development Manager to grow revenue across the South East from our Crawley office. This role focuses on relationship-building, networking, and coordinating tenders rather than hard selling.

You will support marketing activity and manage events and opportunities with a collaborative team. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, organised and commercially minded, with experience in construction, property or related sectors preferred but not essential,

Qualifications

• Proven ability to generate new business through networking and referrals.
• Experience with building relationships with clients, developers, architects and consultants.
• Comfort in leveraging LinkedIn for outreach and relationship development.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business through networking, referrals and targeted outreach.
• Build relationships with clients, developers, architects and consultants.
• Reconnect with previous customers and develop repeat business opportunities.
• Represent Carnegie Group at networking events, trade shows and industry functions.
• Organise and host business and client events.
• Manage and maintain the sales pipeline using Zoho CRM.
• Work with our marketing agency to showcase projects and maintain marketing materials.
• Coordinate the tender process and maintain the tender library.

Skills

Networking

Relationship building

CRM

LinkedIn

Tools

Zoho CRM

Job description

Build Relationships.Create Opportunities.Make an Impact.

We're looking for a proactive, commercially-minded Business Development Manager to help grow Carnegie Group across the South East.

This isn't a traditional hard-sales role.It's an opportunity for someone who enjoys building genuine relationships, networking, representing a respected business, organising events, supporting marketing activity and coordinating tenders.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate new business through networking, referrals and targeted outreach.
• Build relationships with clients, developers, architects and consultants.
• Reconnect with previous customers and develop repeat business opportunities.
• Represent Carnegie Group at networking events, trade shows and industry functions.
• Organise and host business and client events.
• Manage and maintain the sales pipeline using Zoho CRM.
• Work with our marketing agency to showcase projects and maintain marketing materials.
• Coordinate the tender process and maintain the tender library.

About You

• A natural relationship builder who enjoys meeting new people.
• Proactive, organised and self-motivated.
• Confident making introductions and developing new opportunities.
• Commercially aware, resilient and professional.
• Construction, property or related sector experience would be advantageous but isn't essential.
• Experience of using LinkedIn for business development and relationship building

What Success Looks Like

• New opportunities and qualified meetings generated.
• Pipeline growth.
• Repeat business secured.
• Tender success rates.
• Strong client engagement and referrals.

Full-time (40 hours per week), 6 month initial contract, based at our Crawley office with regular travel across the South East.A full UK driving licence is essential.

Join Carnegie Group and play a key role in building relationships, creating opportunities and supporting our continued growth.