Junior Business Development Executive

Overview

In this role you will generate new business opportunities for Bureau Veritas’ Building & Infrastructure OPEX services. You’ll engage prospects, qualify leads, and coordinate with specialists to deliver timely quotations. You will work within a cross-functional sales team to build a healthy pipeline and support growth targets. This is a proactive outbound role with a clear path to develop client relationships and contribute to market expansion. The opportunity combines sales, industry knowledge, and a mission to help clients meet safety and compliance obligations.

Pay / Benefits

• 27,000 starting salary
• OTE up to 55,000–60,000
• 25 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays
• pension contributions up to 12%
• Share in Success bonus scheme
• flexible benefits package (Life Cover, Private Healthcare, Dental, GymFlex, Techscheme)

Responsibilities

• Generate new sales opportunities through outbound calling, self-generated prospecting, and inbound leads
• Make 50–60 outbound calls per day to qualify opportunities
• Engage with clients via phone and Teams to understand requirements and support quotations
• Collaborate with technical, operational, and commercial teams to propose suitable solutions
• Deliver quotations/proposals within 48 hours and maintain CRM records
• Maintain a healthy sales pipeline and manage inquiries to qualified opportunities
• Identify cross-sell opportunities and introduce additional Bureau Veritas services
• Support senior team members in identifying larger opportunities and contribute to team goals

Key requirements

• Previous experience in sales, telesales, lead generation, customer service or business development
• Comfort with high-volume outbound calling and engaging prospective customers
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decision-makers
• Confident in conversations via telephone, Teams, and email
• Self-motivated, proactive, target-driven and resilient
• Commercial awareness to identify sales opportunities and cross-sell potential
• Strong negotiation and objection-handling skills
• Excellent organisation and time management
• Ability to build relationships across technical, operational and commercial teams
• Experience using CRM systems to manage pipelines and opportunities

• strong communication
• relationship-building
• resilience
• Microsoft Teams
• CRM systems
• quotations/proposal delivery

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