Business Development Manager

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leverage your current contacts to immediately generate revenue for CMC by promoting our  CFD offering
• Source prospective clients for the Company in addition to your current network
• Follow up on all prospective leads, explaining CMC Markets’ USPs in order to optimise CMC’s position in the marketplace
• Develop, build and maintain strong relationships with your existing clients
• Keep abreast of global and economic news in order to provide trading support to your clients
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of competitor companies within related markets; sharing knowledge with relevant internal departments
• Collaborate across CMC to ensure that all clients’ requirements are identified and relevant IT and trading platform solutions are offered
• Educate clients on the use of CMC’s platform, systems and trading processes to ensure maximum client satisfaction – and consequently maximum revenue for CMC
• When dealing with all customers or colleagues ensure that we provide a clear, fair and  consistent high quality service that presents a professional and positive image of CMC Markets
• Maintain strong regulatory knowledge relevant to your role and experience of liaising with Legal & Compliance to ensure best sales practice
• Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training
• When dealing with all customers, clients or colleagues ensure that we provide a clear, fair and  consistent high quality service that presents a professional and positive image of CMC Markets
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Have already built great contacts within the CFD/FX sector
• Be able to demonstrate a keen interest and understanding of the financial markets and industry
• High degree of self-motivation and ambition
• Proactive, positive and flexible approach to teamwork
• Strong ability to sell
• Hard working individual with a real passion for talking to people about FX trading and other margin trading products.
• Knowledge and awareness about our competitors within the CFD/Spreadbet sector
• Commercial awareness to identify good leads and business opportunities for partnerships
• Have strong experience in financial sales, with experience of dealing with companies within the CFD/Spreadbet sector.
• Be extremely motivated with great attention to detail
• Be highly articulate, both in person and in writing, with the ability to communicate with and sell to clients of differing backgrounds