Senior Business Development Manager - Digital Marketing

A fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning Digital Agency with 5 offices across 4 countries that use the very best technologies to deliver innovations to their enterprise-level clients, as part of a digital evolution. As part of their growth strategy, they are seeking a new business hunter to join their team of experts working with world leading brands.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Business Development Manager, you’ll create, own and deliver a fresh digital marketing and business plan for both new and existing clients. With a strong background in new business development, you will assist on pitches to acquire new logo clients supported by a small but perfectly formed senior management and client service team. Once converted you’ll work with the Account Director to nurture these key accounts and seek out further new opportunities with a proactive, positive growth mind set.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying, nurturing and developing opportunities for new business
• When developing opportunities, utilise insight from performance of websites and digital marketing technologies to provide initial recommendations and improvements.
• Writing proposals, pitches and tender documents and presenting to senior client stakeholders at board level
• Ensuring the profitability and growth of client accounts by building great relationships and identifying new opportunities within them.
• Understanding, gathering and documenting clients’ digital project requirements
• Stay abreast of digital projects to further expand the portfolio on offer to prospective clients

The successful candidate will have around 5 years’ experience as a business development professional, with first rate rapport building talents and a proven sales track record of winning new business as well as experience working in a digital agency or similar marketing technology related service. They will have solid tenures in previous roles and consistent performance in enterprise-level client acquisition, leading digital initiatives such as complex website builds and content management solutions. A strong understanding of digital marketing is essential, as well as an understanding of the latest applicable digital trends and enterprise web technologies such as CRO, GEO, Digital Automation and CMS.

This is a rewarding and exciting opportunity for a loyal and committed Business Development Manager or new business focused Account Director, who is looking to join a respectful, collaborative team within a successfully expanding digital agency.

Screening Questions:

Do you have at least 5 years’ new business development experience?

Do you have a successful recent sales track record within a Digital Agency?

Can you demonstrate longevity and solid tenures with your previous employers?

Are you resident with unrestricted right to work in the UK and able to commute to Leeds at least once a week?

Location: Leeds/Hybrid

Salary: Circa 50k DOE basic + Bonus

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