Business Development Manager - UX services

Michael Page (UK); London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data and technology consultancy provider seeks a Business Development Manager in London. The role includes generating senior-level relationships, forecasting sales, and leading teams. The ideal candidate will have a successful business development track record and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Hybrid working - 2-3 days/week in the office

Qualifications

• Proven track record in business development.
• Experience selling UX design and implementation services.
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Generate relationships at a senior level - CMO, CIO, CTO.
• Accurately forecast sales and revenue.
• Engage with marketing and internal stakeholders to support business goals.

Skills

Results driven

Excellent written/verbal English

High levels of personal motivation

Time management

Strong listener

Commercially confident

Excellent communication skills

Tech savvy

Tools

Google Analytics

Microsoft Office

Drupal

Acquia

Laravel

Shopify

Headless CMS

Job description

• join a growing team with a fantastic culture and career progression
• join a global company with a fantastic L&D program and benefits package

About Our Client

My clients is a leading data and technology consultancy provider with circa 1,500 people working in over 50 markets globally. With over 3,000 clients, you'll be part of a growing and successful sales team that spans 4 business units covering Consumer & Market Intelligence, IT and Network Services, Digital Transformation and Information Intelligence, which gives the company a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Job Description

As the Business Development Manager, you will have the following key responsibilities:

• Generate relationships at a senior level - CMO, CIO, CTO
• Accurately forecast sales and revenue
• Excellent research skills and understanding of business issues
• Stakeholder triangulation to understand what is happening within a brand
• Using your understanding company's key services and understand how to pitch them
• Objection handling
• Negotiation - both commercial/legal
• Engaging with marketing to understand upcoming activities and how they can feed leads
• Engaging internal stakeholders including pre-sales and delivery teams to support meetings, pitches and QBR's
• Ability to build out clear plans on achieving goals and targets

The Successful Applicant

The successful Business Development Manager candidate will have the following:

• Results driven with a professional approach to business development and a successful track record.
• Experience selling professional services around UX design and implementation
• Excellent written / verbal English
• Competitive
• High levels of personal motivation/ driven and a self -starter
• Time management
• Strong listener
• Persistent
• Commercially confident
• Persuasive at senior levels
• Ability to uncover and numerate business issues
• Confident in defining solutions and mapping them to business goals
• Ability to lead multi-disciplined teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Good understanding of all Microsoft Office products
• Tech savvy with an interest (or understanding) in solutions such as Google Analytics
• Understanding of the benefits of using software such as Drupal, Acquia, Laravel, Shopify, Headless CMS would be beneficial

What's on Offer

Basic salary of £45-65k (depending on experience) + £25k OTE (uncapped)

Based in West London - hybrid working - 2-3 days/week in the office

Generous benefits package