Business Development Manager – Bristol HQ – £35k/£40 plus comms

This is an exciting new role for a driven, new business hunter to join an employee-centric telecommunications company based just off the M5 in Bristol. We are a small, but innovative company with exciting growth plans and they are now looking to expand their sales team by recruiting additional field-based Business Development Managers to expand our territory across the South West.

The successful Business Development Manager will:
• Be a new business hunter who has a proven track record of being able to create new opportunities
• Must have sales experience within the telecoms industry and understand mobile, connectivity and unified communications.
• Be driven and self-motivated
• Have experience of and a proven track record in achieving/exceeding targets
• Be very good at networking with decision makers on social media; primarily LinkedIn
• Be great at asking open, discovery questions to gain relevant information to create opportunities.
• Be happy to self-generate leads
• Be IT literate and happy using a CRM system

Location: The successful candidate will cover a territory near to their base; although primarily in the South West around Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham. They will have an office presence as and when required i.e. for sales meetings, training etc.

Hours: Monday to Friday 9am until 530pm

Salary: £35K- 40K depending on experience, plus uncapped commission.

Commission: based on gross profit which will be 20% of the basic salary. For example, if the basic salary is £40k per month, then the gross profit monthly target will be £8k GP. The successful candidate will receive 20% commission on £8k so £1.6k per month and therefore the OTE is £59,200. Candidates need to achieve this gross profit before then earn commission, which will be 20% of the gross profit thereafter. Commission is paid out over a 10-month period and ‘drip-fed’ to the salesperson. It is paid as soon as the customer is connected. For example, if a candidate achieves the £8k target then £1.6k is then paid over 10 months in monthly instalments.

Targets/KPIs: We will ask the successful candidate to write their own targets/KPIs depending on what they are trying to achieve.