Business Development Manager

As an experienced Business Development Manager, you're now looking for a new role that offers more challenge and responsibility, plus the scope to develop your career with a growing and ambitious organisation.

Then take a close look at this exciting opportunity to join the team. A well-established live-in care company, we have built an excellent reputation for high-quality homecare services that enable our customers to enjoy the happiness, safety, and independence of living in their own homes. Making that happen is the hands of our network of dedicated live-in carers. Their focus is on delivering exceptional care that helps our customers live their lives to the full.

You will be responsible for the development and implementation of the business development strategy across our homecare services. You will be working closely with our team, to ensure that Live-in Care is placed key within the marketplace.

This role also has a strong commercial element: we'll look to you to develop first-rate professional relationships with key individuals within local authorities and commissioning bodies, identify opportunities and win new business.

Excellent communication, networking and influencing skills are clearly important, along with a thorough understanding of the commissioning process. On top of that, you should be an inspirational leader with proven experience of managing performance and delivering a customer facing service. The ability to achieve KPIs, exceed targets and drive business growth is essential too.

As a relatively small and growing company, there is the real opportunity to progress your career here, we will be looking at you to develop the business development team.

We like great people to stay with us for the long-term, so we'll do everything we can to help you build a remarkable future.

Key requirements

• 2+ years' experience in a business development role
• Proven track record of delivering to new business targets on a consistent basis.
• Demonstrable gravitas to develop and build strong relationships with new clients, commissioners, and local authorities.
• Target market research and analysis to enable the communication of complex data to suit the audience.
• Confident presenter and public speaker
• Sales pipeline management
• Client relationship management
• Negotiation skills
• Able to build positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Creative thinker with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Strong IT systems skills knowledge and highly analytical to develop meaningful MI reports and sales metrics.

Be prepared to undertake national travel as and when required