Business Development Manager in West Midlands

Business Development Manager

Business Membership Organisation

Birmingham Offices

Basic Salary Up to £35,000 dependant on experience plus commission

Permanent, Full Time

B2B new business development experience is a MUST!

Our client an established and highly reputable business membership organisation is looking for a 3 x Business Development Managers to join their new business team.

The Role of Business Development Manager

As a Business Development Manager at the membership organisation, you will play a pivotal role in driving growth and expanding our member base. Your primary responsibilities will include proactively generating and managing your own pipeline of leads, organising prospect meetings, and using a consultative sales approach to understand the needs of potential member companies. You will be responsible for acquiring new customers across our comprehensive range of commercial services, including membership, sponsorship, advertising, insight & intelligence services, as well as our international offerings such as export documentation and translations.

You will utilise various channels, including networking, cold calling, and digital marketing efforts to raise awareness and interest in the membership organisation with new audiences. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and enjoy representing the membership organisation at a variety of events in the Greater Birmingham region.

Person Specification

You will be commercially astute and experienced in generating new business in a B2B environment, applying a consultative sales approach to understand a prospect’s business challenges and objectives and highlighting services that could best support their business.

The successful candidate will ideally have at least three years’ experience in a new business development, sponsorship, or sales role with a proven track record of successfully achieving targets set. You will need to be confident in delivering presentations and sales pitches and have excellent organisation, planning and negotiation skills. You will need to be able to self-generate leads as well as follow up leads generated by our in-house marketing team. You will be a proficient user of Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel and ideally should have experience in managing leads using a CRM system.

To apply to this role please send your CV

Due to the volume of applications we are only able to contact successful applicants. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 10 working days please deem your application as unsuccessful on this occasion.

Membership Bespoke is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role. Membership Bespoke positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Membership Bespoke is the most experienced membership-focused recruitment firm in the UK, with 10+ years of experience delivering tailored permanent, temporary, interim, and Executive Search recruitment solutions to Trade Associations, Regulatory Bodies, Political Parties, and Professional Bodies.