Business Development Executive

Proactively seek out, generate, and respond to leads in relevant services, converting to quotations and business won.
Build, maintain and improve relationships with relevant partner organisations, networks, and consultants to strengthen market presence, generate incoming referrals and win new business.
Contribute to company sales targets through a range of channels which may include, telephone sales, completing tenders, consultant referrals and meeting with potential clients.
Effectively manage a portfolio of leads and quotations for a range of services.
Ensure strategies and services maintain ongoing relationships with existing customers to maximize retention opportunities to upsell services and retain clients.
Arrange and attend client appointments as appropriate to help win new business.
Identify and access new routes to market, increase our customer base and sales.
Work effectively alongside Marketing to arrange and deliver relevant events, website content, materials and tenders as required for designated services.
Ensure the CRM is up to date with accurate recording of all leads, quotations and won business.
Professionally and effectively represent CfA at local, regional, and national levels, promoting the profile and positive image of the company with all partners, customers and other stakeholders., We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We're supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

Strong ICT skills, particularly MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint, and databases.
Excellent customer care skills and customer focused.
A good listener and attention to detail.
Excellent telephone skills, manner with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Developing excellent working relationships.
A self-starter, well organised with the ability to self-manage and prioritise workloads.
Confident and able to close deals.
Team player with problem solving skills.
Ability to relate to people at all levels.
Skills Required:

Experience in a customer service delivery environment.
History in a B2B sales role.
Working with customer contacts at all organisational levels.
Developing and implementing plans and achieving sales targets.
CfA product knowledge and CfA procedures and processes, particularly application review, quotation, database requirements.
Accuracy in generating professional quotations.
Delivering professional presentations.
Preferably educated to NVQ Level 3 or higher.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

The Growth Company's Centre for Assessment (CfA) team have an exciting new opportunity for a Business Development Executive To win new business across CfA range of assessment and training services to set targets, promoting CfA as the preferred supplier to all interested parties.

Centre for Assessment (CFA) is a leading UKAS-accredited certification body specialising in providing assessment, certification and training services to thousands of clients both nationally and internationally. With over 20 years' experience in the assessment and certification industry, CfA work in partnership with a highly skilled team of auditors and assessors to provide a client-focused, value-adding service.