Job Description
Job Title:
Recruitment Business Development Intern
As part of their continuing growth, a successful, niche international recruitment agency is seeking a talented Business Development Intern.
You will be joining a team that strive for excellence in their work, so you will demonstrate enthusiasm and creativity every day, and be a confident communicator and a natural at building long-lasting relationships.
The role will involve a degree of remote working so suitable home office environment is required.
Purpose of the role:
To work with the delivery function to identify and maximise new business opportunities in existing clients and leverage all commercial opportunities across major key accounts
- • To contribute to the strategic direction of the business through identifying and creating commercial ‘recruitment solutions’ for major business gains
- • To achieve specific new business targets and growth goals
Key Responsibilities:
· Network with contacts across the industry to develop new contacts in existing clients
· Take a lead role in accounts
· Initiate and lead new client pitches and major account opportunities
· Keep abreast of industry challenges to ensure innovative recruitment solutions are being presented to clients
· Seek and identify new and commercially viable business opportunities
· Pro-actively map and network with contacts, to develop strategically important relationships
· Initiates new and innovative client development methods
· Works closely with Director to identify new client engagement strategies based upon client and market demands
· Identifies and attends all relevant industry events and networking opportunities
· Keeps abreast of industry updates and is 'known' as a Market Expert in their field
· Creates webinars, strategy sessions and is highly pro-active in all areas of social media, to create awareness and to generate new business
· Analyses own performance regularly to ensure they remain on track
· Excellent use of pro-active client development systems
· Pro-active in identifying new opportunities and innovative creative solutions
· Achieves and monitors their own monthly new business activities
If you are a sales person and have a strong drive to succeed, this is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in Business Development, whilst being supported in your own personal and professional development. We recruit and build teams based around our company values, so you can expect a development path to support your growth.
Qualifications & Experience:
- • Interest in sales/telesales, ideally B2B
- • Pro-active approach – hunter type
- • Enjoys building and leveraging a network
- • Confident
- • Advanced communication skills, both verbal and written
- • Ability to engage and network at Director level
- • Ability to sell high level commercial solutions
- • Can confidently lead and control business meetings
- • Can spot opportunities with ease
- • Leverages their knowledge and contacts for commercial gain
- • Strategic thinker (big picture)
- • High level of self-drive and discipline
- • Target orientated / KPI driven
- • Creative thinker and ideas person
- • Minimum degree or equivalent qualifications in any subject
Personal Attributes & Competencies
- • Excellent communication skills including telephone, online, written and on occasion face to face
- • Punctual, flexible, and reliable
- • Excellent organisational and prioritisation of tasks
- • Ability to use own initiative
- • Excellent at building relationships
Remuneration:
Unpaid
Location:
Remote working
Length:
6 weeks to 6 months
