Business Development Executive

We have an excellent opportunity for a hard-working and tenacious Business Development Executive to join our sales team based in Coleshill. We specialise in providing a high-level of Graduate Recruitment to a variety of clients in the West Midlands Region. We are looking for a determined sales person to be responsible for outbound calling to a database of clients in the West Midlands, building relationships over the telephone and securing new business appointments for the Business Development Team.

Job title: Business Development Executive
Location: Coleshill, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Salary: £16,000 - £18,000 (+benefits)
Job Type: Permanent

Reporting to the Sales Manager, responsibilities will include:
*Providing genuine new business opportunities through the generation of fully qualified business appointments booked via the telephone.
*Clearly promote the benefits of the services available, communicating professionally, confidently and respectfully.
*Working from a well organised task list, ensuring that all call backs on your database are diarised correctly.
*Accurately record information relating to all calls
*Assist the Business Development team.
*Share successful approaches to calls and objection handling with other team members.
*Take personal responsibility for understanding of market intelligence and the services on offer and how best to effectively impart that knowledge to prospects.
*Follow the advised responses to all objections. Flag any gaps in your knowledge to your Manager for additional training.

You will be educated to degree level and will be able to demonstrate previous experience of B2B outbound telephone sales, within a similar consultative environment. You will enjoy working to targets and will be committed to maximizing all business opportunities. You will be success driven and commercially aware. You will have excellent communication skills and will be highly motivated, organized and have excellent time management skills.


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