Plan B Talent Ltd
Business Development Executive
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Business Development Executive
Location: Hybrid (Home-based with travel across the UK as required)
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Life Assurance
- Group Income Protection
- Annual Wellbeing & Training Allowance
- Ongoing coaching and professional development
- Clear opportunities for career progression
Looking for your next challenge?
Do you enjoy building relationships, speaking with people, and making things happen? Perhaps you've built your career in hospitality, retail, customer service, account management, or sales and are looking for an opportunity where you can develop a long-term career in business development.
We're looking for someone with energy, resilience, and curiosity, someone who enjoys connecting with people, learning about businesses, and creating opportunities. You don't need years of B2B sales experience—some sales experience of some kind would be beneficial. What matters most is your attitude, communication skills, and willingness to learn. We'll provide the coaching and support to help you develop into a successful commercial professional.
The Role
As a Business Development Executive, you'll play a key role in helping our commercial team identify and engage new customers across the UK & Ireland. You'll research organisations, start conversations with potential clients, and qualify opportunities before introducing them to the wider Business Development team. Every conversation is different. This isn't a scripted call centre environment; it's about building genuine relationships, understanding customer needs, and opening the door to future partnerships.
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Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll receive ongoing coaching to develop your commercial skills and build a rewarding career within business development. We’d also like you to lead other members of the Sales Development Team too. You’ll work with them to set KPIs, measure performance, and coordinate training and upskilling sessions to support their development.
What You'll Be Doing
- Research organisations and identify potential new business opportunities. Working with marketing to cultivate specific campaigns relevant to the different audiences
- Contact prospective customers by telephone, email, and LinkedIn.
- Build rapport with decision-makers and understand their business needs.
- Qualify opportunities and arrange meetings for the Business Development team.
- Maintain accurate records using Salesforce CRM.
- Develop and nurture a healthy pipeline of prospective customers through regular follow-up.
- Work closely with colleagues to ensure a smooth handover of qualified opportunities.
- Share ideas to improve prospecting activity and customer engagement.
- Continually develop your commercial knowledge through coaching and training.
About You
You could have a background working in hospitality, retail, customer service, recruitment, internal sales, or another customer-focused environment where you've developed excellent communication skills and enjoy working towards goals.
You'll likely have:
- Experience in a customer-facing role where you've built relationships and delivered excellent service.
- Some experience of working in a sales environment, or with KPIs/targets is needed.
- Previous experience of working in lead generation would be highly beneficial.
- Confidence speaking with people over the phone and in writing.
- A naturally positive, resilient, and proactive approach.
- Strong organisation and time management skills.
- The ability to prioritise tasks and work independently.
- A genuine interest in developing a career in business development.
- Experience using CRM systems would be advantageous, although full training will be provided.
- Supervisory or team leadership experience is needed, although this doesn’t have to be in a sales capacity.
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Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to build a long-term career within a growing commercial team in an established, ambitious business.
You'll receive structured coaching, ongoing support, and genuine opportunities to progress as you develop your skills and experience.
If you're looking for an organisation that values attitude, integrity, and personal development as much as previous experience, we'd love to hear from you.
At Plan B Talent, we are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable, and diverse environment for all our clients, candidates, and employees. We believe that diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, socio-economic background, and cultural identity, is a powerful driver of innovation, success, and growth. We welcome conversations to discuss adjustments that might be needed as part of the application or interview process.
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