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Growth & Business Development Manager
About the job Growth & Business Development Manager
New Business & Growth
- Identify and develop new business opportunities across enterprise, mid-market and SME segments.
- Build and execute a structured new-logo acquisition strategy.
- Identify target accounts, industries and market segments with high growth potential.
- Conduct proactive outbound prospecting through cold calling, email, LinkedIn, networking, events and referrals.
- Research organisations and identify relevant decision-makers, influencers and buying centres.
- Establish relationships with CXOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Digital Heads, Procurement and Business Heads.
- Generate qualified meetings and convert them into active sales opportunities.
- Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline with a healthy mix of short-, medium- and long-term opportunities.
- Understand customer business challenges and translate them into technology opportunities.
- Sell IT services and solutions through a consultative and value-based sales approach.
IT Solution Sales
Position solutions across areas such as:
- Digital Transformation; Application Development & Modernisation; AI & Generative AI; Cloud & DevOps; Cybersecurity; Data & Analytics; CMS & Digital Experience; CRM & MarTech; Managed Services & Application Support; IT Consulting.
- Work with presales and technical teams to develop appropriate solution approaches, proposals and commercial offerings.
- Conduct customer presentations, solution discussions and commercial negotiations.
- Manage opportunities from lead generation qualification discovery proposal negotiation closure.
- Convert new customers into long-term strategic accounts.
- Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities within acquired accounts.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and establish multiple points of contact.
- Develop account growth plans for high-potential customers.
- Maintain regular engagement with customers to identify emerging business and technology requirements.
- Research market trends, competitors, customer needs and emerging technology opportunities.
- Identify new industries and customer segments for business expansion.
- Develop go-to-market approaches for selected services and solutions.
- Represent the company at industry events, conferences, networking sessions and customer meetings.
- Build relationships with technology partners, consultants and business networks to generate additional opportunities.
- Maintain accurate opportunity and account information in the CRM.
- Track prospecting activity, meetings, opportunities, pipeline and revenue.
- Provide accurate weekly and monthly sales forecasts.
- Maintain a disciplined sales pipeline and opportunity progression.
- Prepare regular business development reports for management.
- Ensure sales activities are aligned with agreed revenue and growth targets.
- New customers acquired
- New revenue generated
- Sales target achievement
- Qualified meetings generated
- New opportunities created
- Pipeline value generated
- Proposal / RFQ / RFP opportunities
- Opportunity conversion rate
- Average deal value
- Sales cycle management
- Account expansion and cross-selling
- Accuracy of sales forecasting
- 5–8 years of experience in B2B sales / business development, preferably within IT services, technology consulting, software, SaaS or digital transformation.
- Proven track record of new customer acquisition and revenue generation.
- Experience selling technology solutions to enterprise, mid-market or SME customers.
- Demonstrated ability to independently generate and manage a sales pipeline.
- Experience managing complex B2B sales cycles from prospecting to closure.
- Experience engaging senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Strong understanding of the IT services and technology landscape.
- Excellent prospecting and lead-generation skills.
- Strong cold calling, email outreach and LinkedIn prospecting capabilities.
- Strong consultative selling and discovery skills.
- Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
- Strong commercial and business acumen.
- Ability to understand customer problems and translate them into technology solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly self-motivated, persistent and target-oriented.
- Strong follow-up and pipeline management discipline.
- IT Consulting
- Digital Transformation
- Software Development
- Application Modernisation
- AI / Generative AI
- Cloud & DevOps
- Cybersecurity
- Data & Analytics
- CMS / Digital Experience Platforms
- CRM / MarTech
- Managed Services
- SaaS / Enterprise Software
- Application Maintenance & Support
- Experience with Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator or other CRM / sales intelligence platforms will be an advantage.
- Account Development
- Market Development
- Sales Operations & Forecasting
- We are looking for someone who is a builder and hunter, not someone who depends entirely on inbound leads.
The ideal candidate:
- Knows how to identify the right target accounts.
- Can find and reach the right decision-makers.
- Is comfortable making the first call and starting conversations.
- Can create opportunities where there is no existing relationship.
- Can understand business problems and position technology solutions.
- Has the persistence to manage long enterprise sales cycles.
- Is commercially strong and comfortable discussing pricing and negotiations.
- Takes ownership of the number from prospecting to revenue.
You should be ambitious, commercially driven, persistent and accountable for results.