Company: Sanctuary Graduates

Team: Management

Salary:

£100k+ (overall package with commission and bonus)

Base: min £60k

Location: London Liverpool Street

Start: December/January (ASAP)

Experienced required: 5 years+

Reporting to: MD

Role

We are seeking a driven business development director, who must have a minimum of 5 years B2B sales, ideally from a recruitment sales background. 

The Opportunity – Business Development Director

• Sanctuary Graduates is seeking an experienced B2B salesperson with strategic capability to head up the business development team in order to drive substantial growth in alignment with our punchy growth plans.
• This is a huge opportunity to develop the sales strategy in a progressive, vibrant business, selling and marketing to hundreds of top employers and becoming further established in the early careers space.
• Sanctuary Graduates have entered a planned rapid growth phase, but we are conscious that, despite being well established, we are only just getting started in realising our potential in the market.
• The role will develop quickly from lead generation, cold calling and delivering sales to targets, to building out a small product-specialised team, assuming a fully directing role within 2 years.

Responsibilities include:

• Ownership of business development area, growing the function and team around you as we expand
• Identifying, qualifying, pitching and closing potential leads
• Pitching to a variety of clients including tender processes
• Working with the operations team to grow accounts to 6 figure clients annually
• Writing and sending our marketing content and optimising this process
• Creating pitch decks, content, digital assets to market to clients
• Learning and absorbing industry trends and insights, and using these to improve the business
• Spotting opportunities for growth

• Year 1:
  • Working towards clear personal annual target selling key recruitment products and working with the MD to meet the Y1 growth targets across the business
  • Managing a team of 3

• Year 1-2:
  • Building a clear sales strategy to meet growth targets across all products and assemble a team specialising in selling each of our products
  • Managing a team of 5

• Year 2-3:
  • Assume Sales Director role, with accountability for and ownership of the sales strategy

Who are Sanctuary Graduates – The graduate recruitment & diversity experts?

• We are Sanctuary Graduates: the graduate recruitment experts. We pride ourselves on our proven ability to connect the top graduate talent from over 200+ universities with employers from across the UK – and we are growing, fast (100% growth in 2021).
• Established in 2010, we’re proud to work with over 100 client employer partners, including KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, Reckitt, JDE, JLL, Ruffer, Disney, IBM, Fidelity International and BDO, delivering an innovative suite of graduate recruitment and marketing services.
• Partnered with the Social Mobility Foundation, a commitment to and passion for diversity and social mobility runs through the core of our business and our trademark personal touch ensures great relationships both within the business, but also with our clients, candidates and university partners.
• We offer the following flagship products to our clients:
  • Attraction: unrivalled campus networks, best in market Brand Ambassador service
  • Screening: Fantastic screening services from CV screening to Assessment Centres.
  • Recruitment process outsource and contingency recruitment: full end to end recruitment

Person Specification

• Sales experience: Proven success in meeting and exceeding sales targets
• Strategic capability: Experience at building and implementing sales strategies
• Growth mindset: Someone who will always look to improve our products, company perception and critical internal processes
• Quick learner: Someone looking to quickly absorb the specialist knowledge around them to be able to sell our products in a short time frame
• Future Leader: the desire and capability to become our sales director within 2-3 years

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