If you have the talent,

A UK-based start-up agency, offering white-labelled B2B specialist copywriting and content strategy, is looking for a full time, experienced Business Development Manager to work on sourcing and signing new business for their agency.  

Education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications or similar, or commensurate work experience
• Experience in sales and marketing
• UK sales experience an advantage
• Minimum of 4 years' agency experience, preferably most of that within a new business role
• Demonstrable ability to hit targets and drive new business and account growth
• Experience in leveraging social media channels (i.e. LinkedIn) for networking and new business opportunities.
• A solid understanding of the B2B enterprise tech and channel marketing space
• A working knowledge of a wide variety of content forms and types, with an eye on best practice and emerging trends
• Experience juggling multiple projects and competing tasks simultaneously

Skills:

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Exceptional negotiation skills

Personal attributes:

• Must be professional and able to form a connection with potential new clients
• Must be an confident, outgoing, people’s person with a penchant for making connections
• Must have a can-do attitude and be ready and willing to get your hands dirty
• Must be ambitious and driven to constantly achieve targets and improve results
• Attention to detail
• Solutions driven
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced, pressured environment
• Thoughtful individual who is able to think strategically and is not afraid to ask tough questions
• Self-motivated
• Flexible
• Conscientious
• Team player
• Must be proficient with HubSpot and MS Office (Word, Outlook etc.)
• Experience using Teams, Asana, SharePoint and Salesforce an advantage

The successful candidate will work remotely but must be available during South African and UK business hours.