Business Development Executive

Location: Ringwood

Salary: £Dependent on experience plus bonus

Hours: 8.30am - 5pm, 1 hour lunch, Monday - Friday; hybrid working 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home.

Benefits for the Business Development Executive:

• 25 days holiday pro rata
• Hybrid working
• Pension - Auto Enrolment - 6 % Employer and 2% Employee
• Parking
• Training provided

Aspire Jobs are delighted to be working with a well-established and growing group of companies who have a great company culture and who are looking to recruit a Business Development Executive on a full-time basis. Our client would also consider a Trainee person for this role, ideally someone who is currently working as a Commercial Account Handler and who wants to progress to a Business Development Executive role.

Responsibilities of the Business Development Executive:

• To proactively generate new business to complement the business plans of the business.
• Initiate and conduct marketing campaigns to generate own leads and appointments by a combination of tele-marketing, mailshots, networking and referrals.
• To track and monitor progress of each target market project, monitoring conversion rates for leads, appointments, quote and sales activity.
• Proactive generation of new business appointments and sales to realise individual new business targets and self-monitoring individual sales activity to ensure all avenues are maximised.
• To generate and support target market focus projects across the company.
• To adhere and support new and existing sales incentives across the company, i.e. Cross selling, networking and referrals.

Requirements of the Business Development Executive:

• Confident communicator
• Proactive
• Strong at generating new business opportunities and building long term relationships
• Sales driven
• Target driven
• Excellent customer service background
• Good account management skills
• Flexible attitude
• Strong work ethic