Business Development Executive

Established in 2004 OLIVER is the worlds first and only specialist in designing building and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40 countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group were at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency spark creativity and drive insightful decision-making empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Business Development Exxecutive

Location: London

About the role:

This is a fast-paced but extremely rewarding role that will allow self-development as well as growth of the overall business. Essentially the success of the sales department will ultimately be the success of the business as a whole.

What you will be doing:

• Selling Olivers broad range of marketing solutions into brands and organisations with a turnover of 200m within your target industries;

• Manage the end to end pipeline for your target industries in Salesforce;

• Managing the entire sales cycle from prospect identification to contract implementation;
• Working closely with your colleagues at Oliver to develop and generate leads from our networks;
• Creating and designing bespoke agency solutions for clients;
• Selling onsite content creative and digital agencies that include a range of services including: online and offline end to end creative and design PR social media digital copywriting videography data & analytics etc;

• Developing structured sales strategies sales plans and profit targets as well as short term tactics;
• In collaboration with Marketing develop and manage an ABM program for your target industries;
• Achieve sales targets and KPIs set by your line manager;
• Report to your line manager Sales Director and wider business on the performance of your pipeline;
• Developing long-term profitable relationships with clients;
• Maximising new business development opportunities;
• Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market;
• Compiling and analysing sales figures;
• Collecting customer feedback and market research;
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors;
• Become an expert and seen as the go-to-person of your target industries
• Representing the business at conferences trade fairs and networking events

What you need to be great in this role:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in sales;
• Educated to a graduate level;
• Ideally selling marketing services content design or creative agency services to blue chip client marketers;
• Long term sales cycles;
• Creating RFI / RFPs;
• Face to face and telephone sales experience including prospecting negotiating and pitching;
• Hunter sales mentality;
• A consultative and solution based sales approach;
• Excellent document creation / sales deck capabilities;
• Ability to adopt different sales styles to match customers requirements;
• Ability to priorities leads and maximize revenue generation via sales pipeline control;
• Consistently high achieving academic record of graduate calibre;
• Commercially astute;
• Strong project management and time management skills;
• Confident working on own initiative;
• First class communication skills;
• Excellent relationship building skills;
• Entrepreneurial spirit. High energy and self-motivation.

Req ID: 17561

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Our values shape everything we do:

BeAmbitiousto succeed

BeImaginativeto push the boundaries of whats possible

BeInspirationalto do groundbreaking work

Bealways learningand listening to understand

BeResults-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community clients and creations

OLIVER a part of the Brandtech Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender sexual orientation gender identity age neurodivergence disability status or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively we work towards our missionembedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.