Business Development Director

Are you a Sales professionals at the top of your game? Read on...

As Business Development Director, you will be responsible for driving sales and revenue for a new Social Media venture with a focus on UK business. You will do this by building strategic, long term relationships with top companies in the FMCG/Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare and Consumer Technology industries.

You will guide client development and sales strategy for one or more of these key verticals with a view to developing the industry-leading social media and online brand metrics technologies on which this venture is based. This will create added-value services for marketing strategy including brand monitoring, consumer insight research, product & service innovation, campaign performance measurement, brand tracking, social business transformation and strategy development.

To be in the running for this role, you will be comfortable in demonstrating the following:

• Identifying developing and leveraging relationships with the senior Marketing and Research Executives in your verticals
• Demonstratable experience in the FMCG/Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, and/or Consumer Technology industries
• Creating long term sales strategy and prospecting plans
• Developing impactful communications and presentations, matching our capabilities to client issues and requirements
• Maintaining up to date prospect interactions
• Completing all pipeline and sales forecasts accurately and on time
• Working to build a consultative sales approach with clients and colleagues

We are looking for someone with a Business Development mindset, cultivated in FMCG or related sales, who can sell out highly innovative solutions to like-minded individuals.

The reward and career prospects are impressive – to reflect your skills to date. We’ll give you the opportunity to move them one step further...