The Role

You'll spend a substantial part of your day on the phone, proactively contacting potential customers and following up on construction projects. You'll need to enjoy starting conversations, be persistent when people are difficult to reach and keep opportunities moving through regular, well-judged follow-up.

Alongside calling, you'll research projects, identify the right contacts and understand their requirements and timescales. You'll speak with architects, developers, main contractors, façade contractors, buyers and installers, securing relevant meetings and qualified enquiries for the wider MyDek team.

This is a practical business development role where preparation and persistence count. Each conversation should help you learn something useful, build a relationship or agree a clear next step.

Working alongside our external business development team and directors, you will keep the CRM accurate and up to date, and co-ordinate with technical, estimating, operations and leadership colleagues to keep opportunities progressing.

Additionally, you will:

• Prepare the context, purpose and questions for meetings
• Answer straightforward customer queries and involve technical colleagues when a question needs a specialist
• Manage inbox and email communications
• Provide clear briefs to internal teams and follow up on agreed actions
• Read and interpret construction drawings to understand project requirements and assist the estimating team when required
• Build your knowledge of our products and relevant construction and specification stages

About You

To be considered as a Business Development Executive, you will need:

• Confidence and willingness to make a high volume of proactive outbound calls
• Persistence through unanswered calls, setbacks and long sales cycles
• Curiosity and listening skills to ask useful questions and understand project needs
• A consultative approach, with the ability to secure relevant meetings and influence customers to take the next step
• Good research, organisation and follow-through, including accurate CRM records
• Commercial awareness: understanding a project's scope, budget, timing, decision-makers and the next step towards an enquiry or order
• Willingness to learn MyDek's products, answer straightforward questions and bring in the right specialist when needed
• The ability to read and interpret construction drawings, with a willingness to support estimating when needed
• The right to work in the UK

Ideally, you will also have:

• Awareness of façade or cladding systems
• Awareness of higher-risk building gateways and the Building Safety Regulator process

Other organisations may call this role BDE, Sales Executive, New Business Executive, New Business Development Executive, Outbound Sales Executive, Telesales Executive, or Internal Sales Executive.

Webrecruit and MyDek are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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