Hybrid Business Development Manager

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About the role

  • Dynamic Business Development Manager driving sales with local government authorities. Utilizing consultative selling to build strong relationships and support project kick-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Working with contacts based mainly in transport and highways teams in local government, supporting them with gathering game-changing data
  • Running the Sales deal process end-to-end, including lead generation, running discovery meetings, pulling together proposals, navigating procurement processes, and getting to project kick-off
  • Working closely with the Revenue Operations function to generate new opportunities
  • Following our sales playbooks to ask the right questions at the right times, supporting your customers with relevant information
  • Presenting VivaCity’s offering in an engaging and educational manner
  • Attention to detail when scoping projects and putting together proposals
  • Forecasting opportunities realistically, in order to support Delivery
  • Sharing information about new customers and opportunities with Product
  • Keeping a close eye on your sales metrics
  • Being a member of a tight-knit sales team, participating and running skills and knowledge workshops to help yourself and colleagues be the best they can be

Requirements

  • Experience in a closing sales role
  • Understanding your customers’ needs and priorities
  • Timeboxing to balance wide-ranging activities
  • Running discovery calls to identify the right fit with prospects
  • Engaging and relevant written communication (emailing, messaging) and winning spoken communication ((cold-)calling, presentations)
  • Clear, timely communication to support product development and project delivery
  • Attention to detail when sharing information (tender writing, proposal writing, CRM updates, project scoping)
  • Utilising SaaS tools to save time, document information well
  • Sales playbooks
  • Sales targets and resulting metrics
  • A desire to understand VivaCity’s technology

Benefits

  • 25 days of holiday
  • Flexible working hours and work from home
  • Up to 30 days per year work from abroad
  • Up to 3 flexible bank holiday days
  • 3% employer pension contribution
  • £200 total working from home budget
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Up to 3 ‘childcare’ or ‘dependant’ days per year
  • Mental health support through Spill
  • Discounted gym memberships through GymFlex
  • £50 per person per quarter team social budget
  • Additional entertainment budget and company parties
  • Office food and drinks
  • Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Seasonal Flu jabs
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Payroll giving through salary sacrifice

Job title

Business Development Manager

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

£45,000 - £60,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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