Title:  Business Development Executive

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent (Remote)

Starting Salary Range From: £24,116

The department you'll join - Business Development (Sales)

Following rapid growth within the company, we have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Business Development Executive to join our sales team. The role holder will secure quality appointments for our Business Development Managers. The candidate will create strong relationships, ensuring that all Vivup products and services are illustrated and understood throughout the sales process. This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious professional to make a significant, long-lasting contribution to a high-profile business, at a key point in its development.

 
The difference you'll make, accountabilities and responsibilities

Working with the Head of Business Development and the Senior Business Development Executive to provide appropriate support across the business to ensure the brand and image of the company is enhanced.

You will take responsibility for your own professional development and keep up to date by reading relevant journals, attending networking meetings and relevant courses so that state of the art thinking can be utilised within the company proposition. You will be a credible ambassador for the company at all meetings with external organisations so that the Company’s reputation is maintained and best interests served.

• To deliver activities included in the Sales Plan by securing appointments for the Business Development team
• Understand the Vivup products and services to ensure this knowledge is passed onto employers to maximise the engagement of the range of health and wellbeing benefits to themselves and their employees.
  
• Generate and progress leads by researching and contacting decision makers through telephone and written contact.
  
• Create reports on sales activity including number of organisations contacted, qualified appointments confirmed and progress on lead generation. Understanding of the challenges faced and solutions needed to be an effective Business Development Executive.
  
• Work closely with the Head of Business Development, Senior Business Executive and Business Development Managers to support all tasks associated with the Vivup life cycle.
  
• Identify opportunities for referrals from the customer during the support process at other local or associated organisations and work with strategic partners to generate more referrals.
  
• Maintaining and updating the CRM system with all contact notes to enable effective customer management and reporting.

Who we’re looking for, skills and experience

• A Level standard or equivalent experience
• Communication – Professional and clear communication skills coupled with the demonstrated ability to network and build strong business relationships. Articulate and tactful both on the phone and face to face with effective writing, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to convert requests into focused, clear and concise responses
• Sales Competency – Identify customer needs, sell the virtues of our products and identify new products to address customer and market requirements.
• Organisation - ability to prioritise a busy workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Good team player with a willingness to collaborate to achieve solutions
• Systems - MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Please note the roles are home based in the UK, so you must have the full legal right to work in the UK.