Marketing Signals is looking for a Business Development Manager in Cheshire, United Kingdom. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.
Job Responsibilities:
- Promote from the directors and wider teams, you will identify suitable targets to sell in relevant and appropriate agency services and solutions.
- Work as a point of contact for new prospects, responding to inbound inquiries in good time, initial qualification to generate next step ‘face to face’ meetings and successful outcomes.
- Evangelize our unique agency proposition and inspiring sales leads to the benefits of working with an award-winning trusted agency, providing a memorable first contact experience through to onboarding to the operational teams.
- Responsibility for and management of all your sales activity.
- Contribute to improving our sales collateral and sales processes in order to prepare engaging and insightful presentations.
- Operate alongside our Account team at the commencement of client projects to ensure a smooth transition from the Sales to Ops is given.
- Attend relevant industry or networking events that offer potential presenting and speaking opportunities to draw new organizations into our pipeline.
- Contribute to thought leadership pieces for our own marketing activity.
- Perform yourself and doing business in a way which is consistent with all of our brand values and overall company ethos.
- Produce regular, accurate weekly sales forecasts to the directors and operations management to allow future revenue and resource planning to be undertaken.
- Cooperate as part of the sales, marketing and operations teams to achieve monthly, quarterly and annual business targets.
Job Requirements:
- At least 3 years proven experience in a commercially focused role within a digital agency environment.
- Effective experience in generating leads via proactive prospecting, nurturing and successfully winning new business opportunities whilst exceeding set revenue targets.
- Proven track record of bringing relevant new business into an organization and onboarding across to the account teams.
- Familiarity with the autonomy to work alone and hit targets deploying your own proven methodology and approach.
- Curious with a real passion for innovative technology and ad formats along with the opportunities they may present to clients.
- A highly motivated self-starter that enjoys setting goals and winning.
- Ability to accurately capture initial client requirements and present solutions in a language the client understands.
- Ability to build and consistently maintain strong contacts across new business prospects and our customers at all levels of seniority.