Business Development Manager

Location

Staines upon Thames, Surrey | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

word builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of  Business Development Manager.

This position will drive growth, build long-lasting customer relationships and collaborate with an experienced sales and technical pre-sales team. The successful candidate will be charged with Business Development for new and existing clients in the UK and Western Europe.

We see this as an ideal opportunity for someone looking to make their next step in sales. You will be excited about developing new business opportunities with new customers and helping to shape the direction of our business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that new business sales targets are met for sector solutions,
• Focus on strategic new business opportunities,
• Support business development team in managing and winning tactical sales opportunities,
• Work closely with Sales team members across the organisation to ensure their optimised contribution to the company as well as their own personal progression,
• Identification of new business development opportunities within target markets,
• Work closely with marketing and pre-sales personnel to ensure new business opportunities are managed effectively and messaging is in-line with industry trends,
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key industry decision makers.

Requirements

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career. We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area. If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

• Ability to develop and execute complex sales strategies,
• More than 5 years’ experience in complex ‘new-business’ sales to the sector market or equivalent,
• Proven track record of selling
• Consistent top salesperson,
• Experience of structured sales methodologies recognised to be suitable for managing complex sales.

It would be advantageous to have:

• Experience working within the Energy sector, selling services and consultancy in the UK and Europe,
• Experience selling in the Digital Transformation space, including working with Data-centric customers who are looking for Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts.

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

This role offers a highly competitive, success-driven, open-ended commission scheme where we reward those that over deliver.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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