Business Development Manager (Hybrid Working)

Hybrid, Reading, Remote

Full-time

Permanent employee

40,000 - 55,000 £ per year

Your mission

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive salesperson who thrives on networking, strategic account development, uncovering opportunities and driving growth through logo acquisitions.
Your role is to originate and close new business sales from prospecting and discovery to negotiation and contract signing. You will keep any customers you bring on, developing the relationships and driving expansion revenue.
You will have the chance to gain partner accreditations, specialise in key technologies and become the “go-to” person within AC for specific services and tools.

Key Responsibilities

Drive new business and revenue growth through strategic prospecting and consultative selling.
Managing the full sales cycle – from lead generation to closing and account management.
Build ongoing trust-based client relationships by understanding their challenges and solution selling.
Collaborate with technical and marketing teams to deliver seamless implementations, client attraction and success.
Manage and maintain your pipeline of opportunities, ensuring forecasts are accurate and up to date.
Use data driven insights to shape proposals, solve complex challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes.

You’ll be central to our growth strategy, driving new business in one of the most exciting and fast-growing industries in the world. Technological innovation is taking place faster than ever before and companies and organisations in every sector are investing more than ever in software and IT services. You will be at the forefront of helping them to accelerate their time to market, capture opportunities and improve efficiency.

Your profile

Essential

Proven track record of consultative and strategic sales success
Full 360 sales experience (Lead generation through to account growth)
Ability to balance new business development with account growth
Self-motivated and results driven, with excellent time management skills
Strong communication, negotiation and commercial acumen
Comfortable working remotely while staying highly engaged with colleagues and clients.
Proficiency with sales tools such as: HubSpot, Sales Navigator and Apollo.io

Nice to have

Keen interest in the Technology sector
An understanding of the software development lifecycle
Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, confluence, bitbucket)

Why us?

£40,000 - £55,000 base salary plus uncapped commission

We know that at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry, so we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team whose members learn from one another. We offer challenging projects within a supportive culture with a clear path for growth.

Benefits include:

33 days’ holiday (including bank holidays)
Private healthcare
Dental insurance
Enhanced maternity & paternity plans
Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget
Flexible working hours and environment
Access to the Electric Car Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension Scheme
High spec. machine and access to virtual test lab
Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions.

About us

Automation Consultants is a leading agile and DevOps consultancy with a complementary software arm. Our consultancy services dedicated to improving our customers’ business performance through digital and agile transformation and automation of software development processes. Our software, which is sold under the AppFox name, complements these services. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry-recognised automation solutions, software and managed services. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.