Graduate Business Development Representative

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

Overview

An excellent opportunity has come up with a growing, global company who specialises in business innovation and business change. As the Graduate Business Development Representative, you will generate new sales opportunities and add qualified leads to the sales funnel. You will be responsible for prospecting, following up opportunities, and passing on qualified leads to other sales agents who will convert them into new customers.

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

Qualifications

• A degree (essential) - any discipline considered
• Previous office experience, ideally within a customer-facing role
• Strong communication skills and confidence speaking with people
• Comfortable cold calling
• Ambitious, highly motivated and eager to learn
• Resilient with a positive, proactive attitude
• Salesforce experience would be advantageous but not essential