Business Development Executive
Location: LeedsWorking pattern: Office-based, 4-5 days per weekHours: 37.5 hours per weekSalary: £26,000 + £10,000+ OTESector: Apprenticeships / Training / Education
The Opportunity
Are you ambitious, commercially driven and looking to build a career in sales? We’re working with a growing training and apprenticeship organisation that is looking for a Business Development Executive to join its Leeds-based sales team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is confident on the phone, motivated by targets and hungry to develop within a sales environment. You don’t need years of sales experience — what matters most is your attitude, resilience, communication skills and willingness to learn. You’ll be joining a business that works with employers across the UK to help them develop their people through apprenticeships, professional qualifications and skills programmes.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Business Development Executive, you’ll play a key role in generating new business and helping the organisation grow its employer partnerships. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Proactively contacting prospective employers through telephone-based business development
- Identifying and qualifying new sales opportunities
- Generating leads and converting prospects into new customers
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with prospective and existing clients
- Understanding employer requirements and matching them with relevant apprenticeship and training solutions
- Managing your sales pipeline and keeping CRM records accurate and up to date
- Working towards and exceeding daily, monthly and revenue-based targets
- Handling objections confidently and using sales tools and resources to progress opportunities
- Identifying opportunities to cross-sell additional training and development solutions
- Developing new employer partnerships and contributing to the wider growth strategy
- Supporting proposals, presentations and other business development activity
- Keeping up to date with the apprenticeship, training and wider skills market
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone with drive, energy and a genuine interest in developing a career in sales.
You’ll ideally have:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confidence speaking to people over the phone
- A strong work ethic and a target-driven mindset
- A genuine appetite to learn and develop
- A customer-focused approach
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- Competence using Microsoft Office
- The resilience to handle rejection and keep going
- The ability to work independently while contributing to a high-performing team
- A professional, positive and well-presented approach
Previous sales or business development experience would be advantageous, but attitude and potential are equally important.
The Personality Fit
- Ambitious – you want to progress and build a long-term career in sales.
- Resilient – you don’t let a few “no’s” stop you from picking up the phone and trying again.
- Curious – you want to understand your customers, their businesses and the solutions you’re selling.
- Competitive – you enjoy having clear goals and pushing yourself to achieve them.
- Coachability – you’re open to feedback and keen to continually improve.
- Commercially minded – you understand that great relationships ultimately need to translate into business results.
What’s On Offer
- £26,000 basic salary
- £10,000+ OTE
- Full-time, permanent opportunity
- Leeds-based office environment
- Structured opportunity to develop your sales career
- The chance to work within a growing training and apprenticeship organisation
- A role with clear targets, progression and earning potential
- The opportunity to make a genuine impact by helping employers develop their future talent
Why This Role?
This isn’t simply a role for someone looking to make calls and hit a target. You’ll be joining an organisation that helps employers develop their people, build skills and create long-term career opportunities. Your role will be instrumental in connecting businesses with training solutions that can make a real difference.
If you’re driven, resilient, commercially minded and ready to build a career in business development, we’d love to hear from you.
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