Junior Business Development Executive

Exciting Opportunity: Junior Business Development Executive – Trendy Tech Firm | Birmingham

Join a fast-growing, innovative tech company in Birmingham as a Junior Business Development Executive! This role is perfect for someone looking to kick-start their career in sales and business development.

You’ll be responsible for identifying and connecting with target companies, building strong relationships, and helping drive growth through strategic outreach.

Key duties of the role:

• Expand the pipeline by sourcing companies that fit the acquisition profile.
• Drive outreach via calls, emails, and social media to engage new prospects.
• Attend industry events and trade shows to build initial connections with target companies.
• Building client relationships and engaging with stakeholders.
• Leverage AI, marketing tools, and CRM data to grow and manage stakeholder relationships.
• Follow up promptly on all prospecting activity, both outbound and inbound.
• Lead initial conversations, calls, video, or in-person, to assess the suitability of target companies.
• Record key interactions and meeting notes at a high standard to support deal tracking.

Skills needed for this role:

• An entrepreneurial mindset, with exceptional communication skills.
• A degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, Sales, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience in building client relationships and engaging with stakeholders
• Self-motivated and proactive worker, who excels working both independently and as a team.
• Two plus years in business-to-business sales, business development, or lead origination roles.
• Expresses a strong business sense and approach to sales, with the ability to connect with target companies.
• Holds an interest and an understanding of Finance and IT, demonstrating a passion to learn and develop.
• Hold and lead engaging conversations with business owners, building relationships.
• Consistently models the behaviour expected.

For this role you will need to have had previous experience in building client relationships and engaging with stakeholders.

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