Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

Due to expansion, a very highly respected risk management and fraud investigation company are looking to recruit  3 Business Development Managers.

You will be a confident, personable graduate (law or accountancy). Previous sales experience is not essential.

The Business Development Manager role is very diverse and there is great opportunity for those who are dedicated and hard working.  The role will involve visiting potential and existing clients (from the financial, insolvency & legal sectors) across the geographical areas below.  

Due to access to confidential information, all employees are security screened prior to employment/ during probationary period.

We require:-

BDM to cover the South East of England to include Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire  Greater London, Essex, Kent, Oxfordshire.   

These roles require committed personnel who are prepared to go above and beyond and who are not merely looking for a 9 to 5 role, as customer service is paramount.

Duties will include (but not limited to):-

• Visiting potential and existing clients.
• Building client relationships.
• Actively promoting MAPS’ services within your geographical area.
• Setting up projects (electronically and hard copy as required) and ensuring correct procedures are followed and appropriate documentation is sent to clients and suppliers.
• Ensuring documents are returned completed in a timely manner.
• Responding to and resolving any client sales issues.
• Updating internal records including spreadsheets, sage and CRM systems.
• Ensuring overall target sales of the business is achieved in the set timely manner.
• Sales/profit targets will continually increase as directed by your Director Line Manager.
• Taking ownership/responsibility of issues in forward thinking manner.
• Liaising with clients both verbally and in writing in a professional manner.
• All communications with clients must be confirmed by email the same day as the communication.
• Be able to prioritise workload.
• Attending functions.
• Overnight hotel stays from time to time to accommodate functions/meetings.
• To assist our Compliance Manger with maintaining records for audits of our ISO27001 systems.
• Ensuring all relevant documentation/correspondence is electronically filed in relevant folders.
• Completing weekly meetings report for the forthcoming week’s meetings to include company/contact details and reason for meeting.
• You are required to provide weekly written sales updates on a Friday to your Director Line Manager on the week’s sales activities and a monthly report by the 2nd of the month to provide the previous months prospective sales and actual sales for the company.
• Ensuring all management systems, legislation, policies and procedures currently in place or introduced at a later date) including our ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) and GDPR are adhered to.
• Be proactive in implementing improvements to current working systems.
• Expense budget & objectives

Salary £35k per annum basic plus commission & car allowance.