Sales Development Representative

Sales Development Representative (SDR) – Executive Search & Life Sciences

Location: Manchester (Office-Based)

Company: QP Group

QP Group is a specialist executive search firm supporting some of the world's leading life sciences, healthcare technology, AI, data, and software businesses.

We're looking for a commercially minded Sales Development Representative (SDR) to build and manage our outbound business development engine. This is a pure new-business role focused on opening doors, generating opportunities, and creating relationships with prospective clients across the US and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Build targeted prospect lists and outbound campaigns.
• Generate meetings with hiring leaders, founders, and executives.
• Secure opportunities for executive search mandates, retained search projects, and large-scale hiring programmes.
• Develop relationships that lead to preferred supplier agreements (PSAs), service level agreements (SLAs), and long-term partnerships.
• Manage outbound activity across LinkedIn, email, phone, and events.
• Work closely with leadership to refine messaging, market strategy, and target accounts.
• Track pipeline activity and performance through CRM systems.

Requirements

• Previous experience in SDR, BDR, or B2B sales.
• Comfortable with cold outreach and high-volume business development.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Highly organised with a process-driven approach.
• Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by commercial success.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent generation of qualified client meetings.
• Creation of new retained search and recruitment opportunities.
• Establishment of strategic client relationships and supplier agreements.
• Building a scalable outbound sales process that supports the firm's continued growth.

This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing areas of QP Group and play a key role in driving new client acquisition across the global life sciences market.

Reach out to discuss - jack@qpexec.com