Driver Hire Bedford and Huntingdon
Business Development Executive
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Location: Yeovil, Shepton Mallet & BA Postcode Areas
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Starting Salary: £27,500 per year, rising to £30,000
Bonus: Uncapped personal and business performance bonuses
OTE: £45,000 – £55,000
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working Pattern: Approximately 90% field-based, 10% office-based
Driver Hire Yeovil & Shepton Mallet is looking for an experienced, confident and commercially focused Business Development Executive to help drive the continued growth of our business across Yeovil, Shepton Mallet and the wider BA postcode area.
This is a predominantly field-based business development role, with approximately 90% of your working week spent out meeting businesses, developing relationships and creating new opportunities.
You will spend the majority of your time visiting prospective and existing clients throughout the territory, speaking directly with business owners, transport managers, operations managers and other key decision-makers.
The remaining time will be spent working from the office, developing your pipeline, following up opportunities, liaising with the recruitment team and ensuring new business opportunities are converted into successful client relationships.
Previous experience within the recruitment industry is essential for this position.
We are looking for somebody who already understands recruitment, knows how to identify staffing opportunities and can confidently discuss recruitment solutions with prospective clients.
This is not a purely desk-based sales position. You need to enjoy being out in the field, meeting businesses face-to-face, opening doors, asking the right questions and building genuine long-term commercial relationships.
The Role
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Supporting the continued growth and development of Driver Hire Yeovil & Shepton Mallet
- Winning new clients throughout Yeovil, Shepton Mallet and the wider BA postcode territory
- Spending approximately 90% of your working time out in the field meeting prospective and existing clients
- Planning and managing your own weekly client visit schedule
- Identifying businesses that use temporary, permanent or contract recruitment services
- Generating new business opportunities through face-to-face meetings, local canvassing, telephone calls, email and social media
- Visiting prospective clients to introduce Driver Hire and understand their current and future recruitment requirements
- Building relationships with business owners, transport managers, operations managers and other key decision-makers
- Identifying, qualifying and developing new business leads
- Creating, managing and progressing your own sales pipeline
- Understanding clients’ recruitment challenges and identifying where Driver Hire can provide an effective solution
- Presenting Driver Hire’s recruitment services professionally and consultatively
- Following up prospective clients consistently and maintaining regular communication
- Identifying opportunities for temporary, ongoing, temp-to-perm and permanent recruitment
- Working closely with the recruitment team to ensure new opportunities are converted into successful placements
- Developing existing accounts and identifying opportunities to increase business
- Maintaining accurate records of client meetings, conversations, leads, follow-ups and opportunities
- Monitoring activity across your territory and identifying new areas for commercial growth
- Representing Driver Hire professionally throughout the BA postcode area
- Helping grow an ambitious, locally owned recruitment business
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What We Offer
- Starting salary of £27,500 per year
- Salary increasing to £30,000 following successful completion of three months
- Uncapped personal and business performance bonuses
- Realistic OTE of £45,000 – £55,000
- Monday to Friday working hours
- Approximately 90% field-based working
- Company vehicle available during working hours for client visits
- A high level of autonomy to manage and develop your own territory
- Support from the UK’s largest specialist transport and logistics recruitment company
- Genuine opportunity to make a significant impact within a growing local business
- The opportunity to build and develop a substantial client portfolio
- A varied position where you will be out meeting businesses rather than sitting behind a desk all day
Requirements
You Must Have
- Previous experience working within the recruitment industry
- Experience in recruitment sales, business development, account management, client development or a similar commercially focused recruitment role
- A strong understanding of how recruitment businesses operate
- Experience identifying and developing new client opportunities
- Confidence approaching businesses and arranging face-to-face meetings
- A genuine willingness to spend the majority of your working week out in the field
- Strong communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills
- A professional and consultative approach to business development
- The ability to create, manage and develop your own sales pipeline
- Confidence generating business through face-to-face meetings, telephone, email and social media
- The ability to identify genuine recruitment opportunities and qualify prospective clients
- Strong organisational and territory-management skills
- A proactive, self-motivated approach to winning new business
- A full, clean UK driving licence
- The ability to drive an automatic vehicle
- Be aged 23 or over due to company vehicle insurance requirements
- Be able to travel regularly throughout Yeovil, Shepton Mallet and the wider BA postcode area
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About Driver Hire
Driver Hire is the UK’s largest specialist transport and logistics recruitment company. While it is a national brand, it operates as a franchised network, meaning the local office is locally and independently owned, giving clients and candidates the benefit of a trusted national brand combined with the personal service of a local, family-run business.
Driver Hire Yeovil & Shepton Mallet supports businesses throughout the BA postcode area, providing professional recruitment solutions across transport, logistics and associated sectors.
We pride ourselves on understanding our local market, developing long-term relationships with clients and candidates, and delivering a professional recruitment service backed by the strength and experience of the Driver Hire national network.
Apply Today
If you are an experienced recruitment professional who enjoys winning new business, getting out into the local market and developing long-term client relationships, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to join Driver Hire Yeovil & Shepton Mallet as our new Business Development Executive and play a key role in growing our client base throughout the BA postcode area.
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