Job Description
Business Development Manager
JOB SPECIFICATION
Reports to: Sales Director
Contract: Permanent
Based: St Albans
Salary: Up to £40k (dependant on experience) OTE £60k
Travel: Up to 20% national travel
A full UK Driver’s Licence is essential for this role.
ABOUT TRUST HIRE
We are an award-winning, privately-owned, St Albans-headquartered business providing security systems to our blue-chip customer base across the UK.
This role is based at our St Albans office; however you will be expected to travel regularly to our office in Glasgow in addition to travel regularly to our client sites all across the UK.
We are growing rapidly and have ambitious company group plans to achieve a turnover of £50m per annum by 2030. We embrace new ideas and change and value everyone’s input into how we continue to thrive and grow.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a smart, ambitious, Business Development Manager to join our team. Ideally you will have experience in a business-to-business solution sales environment. You will be an effective communicator with a thirst for success.
You’ll have the ability to meet tight deadlines and achieve KPI's.
You will be responsible for delivering new business and for leveraging Trust Hire’s value proposition, learning and understanding the client’s needs and tailoring a solution to suit.
You will be a natural hunter, building new business and sharing strategies and plans with your colleagues to achieve common goals and KPI’s.
OUR CORE VALUES
1. Service-Oriented
2. Value-Driven
3. Innovative
4. Dependable
5. Responsive.
WHO YOU ARE
6. You are an ambitious and dynamic new business hunter, capable of prospecting within target sectors, gaining the opportunity to bid for new contracts.
7. You are professional at all times, and capable of operating credibly across a range of industries.
8. You are skilled at client relationship management.
9. You are experienced in relationship building, customer engagement and strategic business development and can operate at this level at all times.
10. You are passionate about carbon reduction and security.
11. You have experience of dealing with senior buyers and C-suite specialists.
12. You are data driven with strong analytical skills and a good understanding of reporting/management information.
13. You are a confident networker and thrive on building lasting relationships.
14. You are organised, self-motivated with a growth mindset
15. You are consultative in your sales style and capable of delivering service excellence.
KEY ATTRIBUTES
16. Caring deeply about the customer and how we bring value to their business
17. Leading and influencing
18. Building brilliant, collaborative, and productive relationships
19. Being business-minded and commercially astute
20. Working diligently and effectively to secure profitable, sustainable business within a dynamic environment
21. Making astute decisions
22. Striving for excellence in all you do
23. Listening and interpreting a customer’s needs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Business Development Manager within a highly professional sector, you’ll be accountable for delivering new business against our ambitious sales strategy of achieving £50m turnover per annum by the year 2030.
As such, we see the key responsibilities of the role as being:
24. Personal Sales target - revenue and upsell
25. Build and maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities
26. Report accurate forecast, pipeline and activity data via CRM
27. Deliver on-site presentations to clients
28. Attend Sales/Product training days
29. Liaise with Procurement, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors
30. Attend Meet the Buyers Exhibitions
31. Utilise social media, lead generation resources and network effectively to grow your profile in our market sectors.
This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate, and we welcome your input in shaping our Customer Relationships journey.
The five proposed strands of our Customer Relationship strategy you will contribute towards are:
32. Serve – Account Management
33. Sell - Business Development
34. Store – CRM Management
35. Shout – Marketing and Communications
36. Seek – Research/Lead Generation.
At Trust Hire, we value the diversity of our people and the varied experiences, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives they bring. We work hard to foster a culture where those differences can thrive and where every one of us can fulfil our potential.
Due to the nature of our business all employees are Security Screened to BS 7858:2019 standard. For people who do not currently hold a SIA License a Basic Disclosure check will be included within the screening process.
As a fair and ethical employer, in accordance with guidelines taken from the 2010 Equality Act, Trust Hire is committed to promoting equal opportunities for all irrespective of colour, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origins, gender, marital/civil partnership status, sexuality, disability or age.
Requirements
Sales CRM Lead generation B2B solutions