Business Development Representative

SmartAssets; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A company in AI-driven marketing solutions is seeking a Business Development Executive to engage with enterprise businesses and build strong client relationships. The role involves research, strategic planning, and the accountability for prospecting new business and developing long-term strategies. Successful candidates will have a customer-focused mentality, excellent communication skills, and a background in prospecting. A competitive salary of £35,000 – £40,000 plus an uncapped commission structure is offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Wide range of benefits

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• 1+ years of prospecting experience in a relevant field.
• Strong ability to communicate with senior business leaders.
• Interest in marketing technology and AI.

Responsibilities

• Identify and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Conduct market research to identify trends.
• Develop long-term sales strategies aligned with company goals.

Skills

Prospecting experience

Customer-focused approach

Communication skills

Strategic planning

Market analysis

Tools

Hubspot

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Job description

As a founding member of our Business Development function, your role will be to capitalise upon your experience of engaging with enterprise businesses to build top-of-funnel opportunities with large Advertisers.

Your role will be to identify, prospect and nurture senior stakeholders on the benefits that our solutions can deliver. Building a great customer experience and rapport from the outset.

What You'll Do

• Accountable for meeting setting, outbound prospecting, conversion, quota, feedback, and customer obsession for strategic accounts
• Collaborate with marketing and product teams on narrating our value proposition.
• You are customer-focused, organized and successful at navigating objections through value-driven messaging
• Great at prospecting using value-driven messaging personalised to delight our customers using email, social, video and calling
• Build the pipeline in partnership with the Enterprise Sales and Marketing teams
• Strategic Planning and Execution: you will be developing long-term sales strategies aligned with company goals
• Market Analysis and Insights: you will be conducting market research to identify trends and opportunities.
• Relationship Management & mapping: you will focus on building strong partnerships with key accounts globally, building lasting relationships.
• Develop in-depth understanding of customer's organisation, business goals and challenges to better understand their needs.
• Work with Hubspot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator & Additional Prospecting Tools
• Hybrid working with minimum 3 days per week in the London office

More About You

• You are a self-motivated, articulate, creative individual with an interest in the advertisement landscape.
• Highly results-driven, with evidence of previous success in a similar role
• Take accountability for owning top of funnel activities, from approach to execution.
• Concise and trustworthy communicator. Speaking to senior business leaders comes naturally to you.
• Keen to take on responsibility and build a new business function, with your recommendations formulating our strategy.
• An interest in the Artificial Intelligence space and understanding of basic concepts.
• Able to adapt your approach to navigate shifts in product or commercial development
• Background in Martech is a plus but not essential
• Experience: 1+ years of prospecting experience
• Open to travelling domestically and internationally for events/engagements.

About SmartAssets:

Incubated within the The Marketing Cloud, our AI platform empowers brands and creative agencies to produce high-quality advertising content by providing insight into the effectiveness of their creative choices. As part of the Stagwell,, we leverage industry-leading technology and enjoy privileged access to agencies across the advertising spectrum.

Our Values:

• Collaboration. We believe that bringing together different and varied expertise delivers results greater than the sum of their parts. Part of collaboration is ensuring we challenge each other constructively. This way we ensure that what we are building is really robust, and that we have mutual understanding and transparency
• Curiosity. We want to know why an ad works or doesn't work. We want to get under the skin of what engages and audience and moves them to action. We believe that data is key to the creative process and enables us to really celebrate excellence in advertising. Something not working is still a valuable data point, which we embrace, bringing science into the art of advertising. We want to know what we don't know
• Commitment. Bringing innovation to the market requires belief and drive. We have incredible momentum and great backing. We must remain committed to making SmartAssets the success we know it can be, focusing on what clients really need and delivering against that every single day

Benefits

In return for your interest and expertise, we can offer an exciting and multicultural place of work, competitive salary, wide range of benefits, and the chance to progress your career within a truly global organization. Base dependent on experience + uncapped commission structure.

We offer a base salary of £35,000 – £40,000 (depending on experience) and a very competitive commission structure.