Business Development Manager (Permanent)

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: London.

Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 +Bonus

Job type: Permanent, Full time.

The Role:

Want a role where every single sale makes a Serious impact on the world?

Here at Serious, we've planted over 900k trees and recovered the equivalent of 150,000 plastic bottles from the oceans to help in the fight against the triple threat of deforestation, climate change and plastic pollution.

There's plenty more where that came from, and we've got massive ambitions for the future. We've just completed our first fundraise so it's a great time to join this fast growing, impact-led start up.

We've achieved this by getting people to make the very simple switch to our Serious product range made up of toilet paper, soap, laundry and cleaning products, with more to follow.

We're looking for a brilliant salesperson who is as passionate about making a big impact on the world as we are. We started the business to look after future generations. Between the four founders we have eight kids between us, and on the current trajectory, by the time our youngest reaches 21, we'll have planted over half a billion trees.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Sourcing new leads and building a pipeline.
• Outreaching to new targets companies.
• Meeting with prospective clients virtually and in person.
• Working towards monthly targets.
• Supporting the Sales and Operations Teams with administrative duties.
• Researching businesses, individuals and industry trends to identify potential new clients and markets and ways to serve existing clients better.
• Preparing client presentations and materials, including PowerPoint.
• Attending networking opportunities including conferences and industry events.
• Sending sales decks and proposals to prospective partners.
• Responding to inbound sales enquiries.
• Contributing to the smooth running of business operations.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years' experience in a B2B sales role.
• Some knowledge or experience in the cleaning and hygiene sector or consumable goods would be a bonus.
• Experience working in the social enterprise / sustainability space and keen to be part of a company wanting to make a real impact.
• Commercial awareness.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Enthusiastic and dependable.
• Focused and goal oriented.
• A team player.
• Highly organised with good time management.
• Ability to
• Solid knowledge of Sales management and b2b sales pipeline management.
• Familiarity with analytical, productivity, and reporting tools such as Hubspot, ClickUp MS Office, Slack, LinkedIn.
• Fluency in English is required.

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

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