Business Development Manager- Midlands

Aimee Willow Connex; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected risk management firm is seeking a Business Development Manager in the Midlands. The role involves visiting and building relationships with potential and existing clients in various sectors, requiring a graduate with previous sales experience. Ideal candidates are committed and ready to exceed basic expectations in customer service, ensuring compliance with company policies and improving current systems.

Qualifications

• Confident and personable graduate (law or accountancy).
• Previous sales experience is essential.
• Prepared to go above and beyond customer service expectations.

Responsibilities

• Visit potential and existing clients across various sectors.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Promote services actively within the geographical area.
• Ensure adherence to internal management systems and legislation.

Skills

Sales experience

Communication skills

Relationship building

Problem-solving

Education

Graduate in law or accountancy

Tools

CRM systems

Spreadsheet software

Job description

Overview

Business Development Manager - Midlands

Due to expansion, a highly respected risk management and fraud investigation company is looking to recruit a Business Development Manager in the Midlands. You will be a confident, personable graduate (law or accountancy). Previous sales experience is essential.

The Business Development Manager role is very diverse and offers a great opportunity for those who are dedicated and hardworking. The role will involve visiting potential and existing clients (from the financial, insolvency and legal sectors) across the geographical areas below.

Nottingham
Derby
Stoke-on-Trent
Telford
Coventry
Birmingham
Worcester
Bristol
Cardiff

Due to access to confidential information, all employees are security screened before employment/during the probationary period.

This role requires committed personnel who are prepared to go above and beyond and who are not merely looking for a 9–5 role, as customer service is paramount.

Responsibilities

• Visiting potential and existing clients.
• Building client relationships.
• Actively promoting our services within your geographical area.
• Setting up projects (electronically and hard copy as required) and ensuring correct procedures are followed and appropriate documentation is sent to clients and suppliers.
• Ensuring documents are returned completed promptly.
• Responding to and resolving any client sales issues.
• Updating internal records, including spreadsheets and CRM systems.
• Ensuring overall target sales of the business are achieved in a set time frame.
• Sales/profit targets will continually increase as directed by your Director Line Manager.
• Taking ownership/responsibility of issues in a forward-thinking manner.
• Liaising with clients both verbally and in writing professionally.
• All communications with clients must be confirmed by email the same day as the communication.
• Be able to prioritise workload.
• Attending functions.
• Overnight hotel stays from time to time to accommodate functions/meetings.
• To assist our Compliance Manager with maintaining records for audits of our ISO27001 systems.
• Ensuring all relevant documentation/correspondence is electronically filed in the relevant folders.
• Completing weekly meetings report for the forthcoming week's meetings to include company/contact details and reason for meeting.
• You are required to provide weekly written sales updates on a Friday to your Director Line Manager on the week\'s sales activities and a monthly report by the 2nd of the month to provide the previous month\'s prospective sales and actual sales for the company.
• Ensuring all management systems, legislation, policies and procedures currently in place or introduced later, including ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) and GDPR, are adhered to.
• Be proactive in implementing improvements to current working systems.
• Expense budget & objectives