Graduate Business Development Rep: Growth & Prospecting

Focus Resourcing; Reading; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Resourcing is seeking a Graduate Business Development Representative in Reading to generate new sales opportunities and add qualified leads to the sales funnel. You will prospect, follow up opportunities and pass on qualified leads to senior team members.

Key duties include lead generation by cold calling, logging all activity in the CRM, and booking meetings for the colleagues. A degree is essential; customer-facing experience and strong communication skills are highly valued.

Qualifications

• A degree is essential, any discipline.
• Previous office experience, ideally customer-facing.
• Strong communication and confidence speaking with people.
• Comfortable cold calling.
• Ambitious, highly motivated and eager to learn.
• Resilient with a positive, proactive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Generating leads by cold calling prospective clients.
• Document, track and monitor all leads and activities in the CRM.
• Booking meetings for senior members of the team.
• Identify opportunities for campaigns.
• Nurture relationships with longer term prospects.

Skills

Strong communication

Cold calling

Ambitious

Resilient

Customer-facing

Education

University degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Focus Resourcing is seeking a Graduate Business Development Representative in Reading to generate new sales opportunities and add qualified leads to the sales funnel. You will prospect, follow up opportunities and pass on qualified leads to senior team members.

Key duties include lead generation by cold calling, logging all activity in the CRM, and booking meetings for the colleagues. A degree is essential; customer-facing experience and strong communication skills are highly valued.