HUNTER-STYLE BUSINESS DEVELOPER

Job Overview We are seeking a pure hunter-style Business Developer to open new client accounts, develop new territories and generate new recruitment opportunities. This is not a traditional 360 recruitment role. The primary focus will be on business development, cold outreach, winning new clients and securing qualified job briefs. Some candidate resourcing responsibilities may be introduced at a later stage, but the immediate priority is generating new business. Key Responsibilities • Identify and approach prospective clients across the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors. • Conduct high volumes of telephone-based business-development activity. • Open new client accounts and develop new geographical or sector-based territories. • Engage hiring managers and senior decision-makers. • Qualify prospective clients and recruitment requirements. • Secure detailed and workable job briefs. • Build relationships with new prospects from the first cold contact. • Maintain consistent follow-up activity across telephone, email and LinkedIn. • Develop a pipeline of prospective and active clients. • Use market-mapping and lead-generation tools to identify target organisations. • Record business-development activity and maintain accurate CRM information. • Work towards revenue, client-acquisition and job-generation targets. • Assist with candidate resourcing later, depending on business requirements. Candidate Profile The successful candidate should be: • Hungry, ambitious and strongly motivated by financial success. • Tenacious and comfortable working in a highly proactive sales environment. • Confident making cold calls and dealing with rejection. • Naturally phone-first in their approach to business development. • Able to build a recruitment desk or target market from the ground up. • Skilled at opening new accounts and converting cold prospects into clients. • Confident qualifying job briefs and identifying genuine hiring requirements. • Self-motivated and capable of working independently from home. • Comfortable working UK business hours. Ideal Background The strongest candidates will have experience in: • Engineering recruitment. • Manufacturing recruitment. • Technical recruitment. • Design-engineering or project-engineering recruitment. • New-business development within a recruitment agency. • Building a cold recruitment desk or entering a new market. Systems and Tools Provided • SourceWhale for outreach campaigns. • Lusha. • Market Mapper for identifying markets, candidates and hiring managers. • Ringover telephone system with call-transcription functionality. • Leading recruitment job boards. • LinkedIn Recruiter. • LinkedIn Sales Navigator. • Additional tools may be considered where they demonstrate a clear return on investment.