Job category: Change

Due to company growth a brand-new opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Development Manager to join a fast growing and highly successful energy and data organisation.

The role will be fully remote, but you will be required to attend Head Office in Surrey around once a month. The geographical area will be National within the UK and you would be required to sell EV charge points and Solar and decarbonisation technologies to business, developing partnerships.

The role is a 50/50 split of brand-new sales and approaching existing customers from a warm database. I am searching for a true sales professional, with proven and demonstrable business development experience, with a confident and friendly approach and enjoys building relationships. You will be targeted and required to attend one prospective face to face customer meeting in person a week and ideally four Teams meetings a week.

You will be generating your own leads, identifying, engaging and securing new business and closing new clients, before passing them to a dedicated Account Manager and ensuring a smooth handover is complete.

Working to and delivering against KPI’s, you will have a flexible approach and be experienced and comfortable with reporting results and proving market research back to the business. Although you will be accountable for your own work, there is a strong emphasis around the team target and working together as a team, sharing ideas, knowledge and experience.

There is a competitive basic salary and achievable and uncapped commission on offer, along with all expenses paid for and a fantastic benefit package!

Skills/experience and attributes required:

• Ideally two- five years’ solid experience as a Business Development Manager
• Solid experience of face-to-face sales within a B2B environment is essential
• Ideally degree educated
• A car driver is ideally required
• Experience of EV charging point sales or solar power sales would be incredibly desirable
• A passion or knowledge about EV charging would be desirable
• Strong experience of all Microsoft packages including PowerPoint for presentations
• Experience of obtaining own leads, tracking leads and closing deals
• Inquisitive and enjoys fact finding
• Strong relationship building skills
• Dynamic, modern approach to selling and presenting using various technologies
• Vivacious personality, friendly and approachable
• Consultative sales approach with a strong sales acumen
• Driven, organised and self-motivated
• Thrives being part of a team

Our client is looking for an experienced PR Manager to join their vibrant and friendly team.

The organisation has won multiple awards and commendations over recent years including Creative Industries, SME of the Year and Future Talent and Skills Champion.

This would suit a PR Professional who is looking to take the next step in their career or someone that wants to work with inspirational clients within a really supportive environment.

They are happy to look at candidates from mid to Senior level as long as you can demonstrate your experience within an agency environment and are passionate about all things PR.

Key responsibilities:

• Devise media strategies with a creative approach and digital emphasis
• Generate interesting story angles to secure coverage
• Serve media to the highest possible standard on behalf of clients
• Nurture and build relationships with media, industry associations, partners and influencers
• Monitor the news agenda on a trade, regional and national level, ensuring reactive opportunities are seized and optimised on behalf of clients
• Distribute materials to target media using contacts, as well as media databases
• Sell-in PR stories to target media, including national and broadcast media; identify opportunities to cross-sell pitches to journalists on behalf of other clients
• Monitor and evaluate PR campaigns. Report with confidence internally and to client
• Provide support in preparing new business proposals and attend pitch presentations with the team

Key skills and experience:

Essential

• Strong PR experience in a busy agency environment
• Outstanding copywriting skills for press releases, articles and digital content
• Creative approach to campaigns, proactive in securing media placements and working with influencers and partners
• Strong understanding of social media platforms

Advantageous

• Knowledge or understanding of online PR and securing links to high-ranking media sites
• Experience of writing content with search in mind and/or working with SEO teams