Business Development Manager in UK

Location: UK
Salary: £30,000 per year
Recruiter: Sanctuary Graduates
Job Hours: Full-time

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Do you have:

  • Have recruitment sales experience?
  • Want to drive dive the growth for our established best-in-class recruitment product - Early Careers RPO? We’re rapidly winning market share from our competitors and have a huge opportunity for a hungry, ambitious salesperson to generate massive revenue for our fast-growing SME.
  • This is a straight sales role - fantastic operational teams deliver the recruitment for the clients you bring in, so you won’t be involved with candidate interaction.


Sanctuary Graduates the Early Careers and Diversity Experts, are seeking an ambitious sales professional with some pre-existing recruitment sales experience to join our business development team as a Business Development Manager.


In return, we will offer a £30-40k basic salary (DOE) with uncapped commission and no threshold within a high-growth, high-yield position in our growing business. You will work alongside Sanctuary's MD and Director of sales who will provide 1-1 support and learning opportunities.


Sanctuary Graduates (The Early Careers and Diversity Experts)

  • We are the leading early careers and diversity recruitment experts - we help 100s of employers reach, attract and recruit the best graduates, interns and apprentices across all sectors.
  • We have built student networks and university and school partnerships to deliver businesses the early careers talent they need.
  • Partnered with the Social Mobility Foundation, we are passionate about, and thought leaders in, diversity within Early Careers.
  • We are a rapidly growing scale-up business with an impressive array of happy, long-term clients including KPMG, ghd, Mu¨ller, Stagecoach, Markel Insurance, Baillie Gifford, JDE and many more.
  • As true Recruitment Partners to our clients, we act as an extension of their team and ensure they are treated like our only client.
  • We’re leaders for the product you’ll be selling, meaning you’ll have an extremely strong foundation to sell from


What is the role?

Main Aim: Bring new recruitment clients into the business for our brilliant operational teams to deliver the recruitment.

Responsibilities include:

  • Identifying, qualifying, pitching and closing potential leads within certain verticals
  • Owning each vertical and unlocking the potential, using case studies and previous evidence of success and excellence
  • Pitching to a variety of clients including formal tender processes
  • Working closely with the operations team to renew and grow client accounts
  • Writing and sending our marketing content and optimising this process
  • Learning and absorbing industry trends and insights, and using these to improve the messaging to your potential clients
  • Spotting opportunities for growth
  • Your leads will be generated for you so you can spend more time selling and growing opportunities
  • You will receive 1-on-1 mentorship with a Senior Sales Director


What you will bring to the role:

  • Recruitment Sales Experience: proven recruitment sales experience with success in meeting sales targets
  • Interpersonal skills: Experience at building and growing client relationships
  • Caring mindset: for your clients and colleagues
  • Quick learner: Someone looking to quickly absorb the specialist knowledge around them to be able to sell our products in a short timeframe
  • Positivity: A can-do character, to rub off on colleagues and clients
  • Progression: Keenness to grow the business and the team around them with a growth mindset
  • Initiative: always finding a way to deliver


Why should you apply?

  • Bonus - you will earn commissions on all sales you generate
  • Socials - we have regular socials, team days and weekends away. We also have regular business-wide monthly and seasonal celebrations and dedicated social secs who organise fun socials.
  • Subsidised gym membership - you will have subsidised access to our in-office gym.
  • Discounted office restaurant - enjoy our rooftop restaurant which is discounted for Sanctuary employees.
  • Homely office vibe -we have a lovely team, our office has beer and wine fridges, cupboards full of food, darts, and many more things to make you feel at home.
  • Holiday & day off for your birthday - you will 25 days annual leave and we will give you the day off for your birthday to celebrate!
  • Private?healthcare - your wellbeing is a priority of ours and you will have access to Vitality private healthcare, with endless benefits.
  • Pension scheme - we will provide a paid pension during your time at Sanctuary.
  • Flexible working - we offer a hybrid working environment.


About Sanctuary Graduates


Sanctuary Graduates is an innovative graduate recruitment agency which solves graduate attraction problems for dozens of firms, both Times Top 100 employers and other companies & SMEs, with our unique peer2peer recommendation system.

How do we do this?
We employ 1000+ student headhunters, students themselves who search their campuses for our clients' graduate and intern talent. They identify and headhunt their friends, peers, course-mates and society colleagues, scouring the grass-roots on campus for talent for our clients.

Looking to hire graduate talent?
Please get in touch: tom@sanctuarygraduates.co.uk; 0203 609 3100; www.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk

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