Business Development Executive

The role: Sales / Business Development Executive

Location: Leeds - Hybrid - 3 days in the office

Contract: Full time, 37.5 hrs per week

Package: Competitive base salary with an uncapped commission

Role Purpose

As a Business Development Executive at QA, your primary focus will be to grow your account base by identifying new business opportunities and nurturing existing client relationships. You’ll apply proven sales techniques from our in-house Sales Academy and benefit from ongoing coaching to drive long-term, high-value outcomes.

You’ll strategically prospect for new clients while deepening relationships with your current portfolio to maximise commercial success.

About You

• You’re an experienced Business Development professional with a strong track record of meeting sales targets across a diverse product range. Ideally, you’ve worked in a B2B sales environment, selling services and solutions. You thrive on building new relationships, solving client challenges, and delivering results under pressure.

Job purpose:

• You will join QA as a Business Development executive; your focus will be to further grow your account base by prospecting for new business and nurture your existing customers using sales techniques gained from our in-house sales academy and on the job coaching.
• Strategically prospect new business and nurture your existing client base to maximise high value and long-term opportunities.

A ‘day in the life’ of a Business Development Executive

• Lead client meetings to understand their business in order to deliver an impactful solution
• Analyse sales management information to strategically prioritise your sales pipeline to maximise financial performance
• Design a high-level creative solution to meet the client’s needs
• Drive commercial discussions, prepare quotes and proposals to deliver high quality material for client sign off
• Measure the strategic value being added to client account
• Develop strategic relationships with client C-Suite and other senior stakeholders

Sounds great, doesn’t it?! And in return we will offer you!

We understand the importance of downtime and wellbeing. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to support your health and work-life balance, including:

• 27 days annual leave
• Holiday buying scheme
• Medicash health plan
• Gympass membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 2 charity leave days per year

Our people

We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.

If this is what you’re looking for, here are the next steps:

Hit the apply button and register on our QA website to fill out our quick and easy application form.

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