Business Development Manager- North

Aimee Willow Connex; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable risk management firm is seeking a Business Development Manager to expand its services across the UK. The role involves visiting clients, building relationships, and ensuring achievement of sales targets. Candidates should be confident graduates, preferably in law or accountancy, with a dedication to customer service. The position will include travel and requires proactive individuals committed to growth.

Qualifications

• Confident and personable graduate.
• Previous sales experience not essential.
• Commitment to customer service.

Responsibilities

• Visit potential and existing clients.
• Build client relationships.
• Promote MAPS' services.
• Ensure timely completion of targeted sales.
• Liaise with clients professionally.

Skills

Client relationship building

Sales target achievement

Proactive improvement implementation

Education

Graduate in law or accountancy

Job description

Overview

Due to expansion, a very highly respected risk management and fraud investigation company are looking to recruit 2 Business Development Managers.

You will be a confident, personable graduate (law or accountancy). Previous sales experience is not essential.

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

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

We require:-

One BDM to cover the north of the Country to include Scotland down through Cumbria, Tyne & Wear, Yorkshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and areas above East Midlands.

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

Responsibilities

• Visiting potential and existing clients.
• Building client relationships.
• Actively promoting MAPS' 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 the set timely manner.
• 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 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 at a later date) including our ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) and GDPR, are adhered to.
• Be proactive in implementing improvements to current working systems.
• Expense budget & objectives