Business Development Consultant

If you have strong sales, customer service or contact centre experience, handling high call volumes on an outbound or inbound basis, then this could be a fantastic opportunity for you!

We are delighted to be working with this rapidly expanding mutual society, who have experienced some impressive growth recently, and have a leadership team in place to make sure this continues and have big plans for the future, meaning there is some great opportunities at the moment for hard working and career minded people who want to join them on this journey. They are now looking for a someone to join them as a Business Development Consultant.

They offer some genuinely great perks here, such as staff away days and social functions, with a benefits package that includes, Private Health Cover, 25 days holiday + bank holidays to start, free eye care, a 10% of salary annual bonus and a 10% non-contributory pension, death in service (x4 of base salary). And the benefits do not stop there, as they also offer a staff Employee Assistance program, and discounted membership investment opportunities as well as a further two days leave year fully paid to go and work for a charity of your choice. They also offer hybrid working and onsite parking is also provided.

Your role will require you to make outbound sales calls and generate leads, identifying new opportunities for the sales team, attending corporate business events and representing the company. On top of this you will also book business development meetings, research new business prospects, carry out competitor analysis and produce reports on sales figure and trends for management. This will also include offering a variety of proposition training support to the mutuals partners, including webinars and presentations to build brand awareness and meet agreed sales target.

To be considered for this role, no financial services experience is required (though this would be a bonus) however you will need to possess good experience in a high call volume environment in a sales or customer service focused role. A good standard of education with a minimum grade C GCSE, or equivalent, in Maths and English is also required.

This is a truly fabulous opportunity to join a great local employer in Gloucestershire, who offer a warm and friendly working environment, working with a great team!

Office hours are 8:45am to 5pm and the salary on offer is £26-31,000, depending on experience including all the benefits mentioned above, with them offering hybrid working. (You will need to be in the office 2/3 days a week)

If you wish to discuss this role in more detail, please contact Kieran Boyle at CKB Recruitment