Remote UK Growth & Client Acquisition Lead

Employmate Limited; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 446,000 - 580,000; Full time

Job summary

Employmate Limited seeks a Strategic Client Acquisition Manager to drive new business in the United Kingdom from a fully remote base in South Africa. You will identify prospective clients, engage senior decision makers and advance opportunities through the sales cycle.

Key responsibilities include outbound prospecting, meetings, and building a strong UK pipeline while collaborating with leadership. English communication and a hunter mindset are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in business to business outbound sales or new business development.
• Proven success generating opportunities through proactive prospecting.
• Excellent cold calling skills and confidence communicating with senior business decision makers.
• A genuine hunter mentality with the ability to create opportunities independently.
• Experience conducting discovery and qualification meetings.
• Experience developing and progressing prospects through a business to business sales pipeline.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
• Confidence engaging with UK based decision makers.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to identify genuine business opportunities.
• Ability to work independently within a fully remote environment.
• Excellent organisational, follow up and pipeline management skills.
• Confidence using CRM systems and modern sales tools.
• A commercially focused and results driven approach.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with international colleagues and leadership teams.
• Ambition to develop into a self sufficient business development professional capable of managing the complete sales cycle.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and engage prospective clients within defined United Kingdom target markets.
• Generate new business conversations through cold calling, email and LinkedIn.
• Build relationships with senior decision makers and key stakeholders.
• Conduct initial discovery and qualification meetings.
• Develop a detailed understanding of prospective clients' businesses, challenges and commercial requirements.
• Evaluate potential opportunities to determine commercial suitability.
• Develop and progress qualified prospects through the business to business sales pipeline.
• Manage follow up activities and maintain consistent communication with prospective clients.
• Support proposals and participate in commercial discussions.
• Initially work alongside senior leadership during later stage sales meetings.
• Build and maintain a sustainable pipeline of new United Kingdom business opportunities.
• Progressively take ownership of the complete sales process from initial outreach through to successful conversion.

Skills

Outbound sales

Cold calling

Lead qualification

English communication

Independent work

CRM proficiency

Pipeline management

Relationship building

Tools

Aircall

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

CRM systems

Job description

Employmate Limited seeks a Strategic Client Acquisition Manager to drive new business in the United Kingdom from a fully remote base in South Africa. You will identify prospective clients, engage senior decision makers and advance opportunities through the sales cycle.

Key responsibilities include outbound prospecting, meetings, and building a strong UK pipeline while collaborating with leadership. English communication and a hunter mindset are essential for success.