Business Development Executive

Monday to Friday 9-5 with 30 mins lunch break and excellent benefits including:-

• Up to 35 days’ holiday including bank holiday and no weekend or bank holidays working.
• Salary is £32,000 + potential to earn up to 50% of annual salary in bonus over the annual year
• Pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to £500 Refer a Friend Bonus Scheme
• Discount and cash back on hundreds of high-street retailers
• Excellent training and career progression opportunities
• Employee engagement events

My client is looking to recruit a Business Development Executive to join the busy Commercial team.

Working within our B2B Sales Department, you will proactively contact potential business customers as well as take inbound calls to identify new business opportunities within the healthcare market.

Once contact has been established and sales opportunities made, you will manage through the sales funnel and close where appropriate.

This role is York based but we are happy for you to work remotely. However, requirement to attend the York office on occasion will be required.

The post holder will:

• Achieve set KPI’s including: outbound call rates, virtual meetings, and prospecting for new business
• Achieve your regional sales target.
• Identify opportunities for new schemes including Healthcare schemes and Cash Plans.
• Accurately and proactively use the CRM system (Salesforce) in maintaining housekeeping best practice as well as generating leads
• Achieve monthly compliance targets in line with Quality Assurance guidelines
• Provide excellent customer service ensuring an excellent customer journey.

Skills and experience required:

• Demonstrable experience of outbound B2B telephone, as well as virtual sales environment and able to evidence at least 12 months of consistent achievement of sales targets and KPI’s.
• Able to prospect and speak to people at all levels of an organisation. Be confident in understanding client needs and able to articulate in a clear and concise manner our products.
• Tenacious, resilient with excellent interpersonal, communication and consultative sales skills.
• Use of a CRM system to track sales funnel and keep all records up to date.
• Competent in using Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• A demonstration of commitment towards teamwork and appreciation of how this can drive sales performance and excellent customer service by sharing best practices.

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