Business Development Manager
Job Description
Overview
If You Could is a creative jobs board that works for everyone. Built by creatives, for creatives, it’s a quick and easy way to browse hundreds of opportunities across the industry. Whether you’re taking your first step or making your next move, from big agencies to boutique studios, full-time to freelance, our team reviews every role to make sure it’s relevant.
Job purpose
- Leading the new business, sales and marketing at If You Could Jobs – overseeing the team and output and shaping the growth and profitability of the business.
- Leading If You Could Jobs’ point of difference, point of view and approach both internally and externally, helping the company to achieve its commercial and creative ambitions, and fulfilling our purpose.
- Identify new clients and develop best approaches to new business
- Maintain and grow relationships, securing new and ongoing business
- Line manager to the Project and Community Manager
- Fulfil the new business and sales work to achieve great results, overseeing and analysing effectiveness and financial performance across multiple products and services
- Report on business performance and improve strategies as needed to meet commercial targets
- Representing If You Could Jobs as part of the HudsonBec Groups leadership team; reporting to directors quarterly
- Nurture and maintain a positive working culture
- Represent, influence and progress the business externally
Ideal Candidate
- Proven track record of growing business and securing new relationships
- Experience of managing teams
- Experience in the creative industry
- Pro-active with the ability to work independently
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Confidence with analysing data and identifying useful insights
- Enjoy networking and building relationships
- Able to deliver high-quality work in a timely manner
- Organised with strong project management skills
- Passionate about the creative industry
- Experience and confidence of building and managing a CRM
Key Tasks
- Securing new business across our largest commercial offerings across the group
- Overseeing a clear new business and marketing strategy and ensuring it is executed through their team
- Review, analyse and propose changes to our new business and marketing strategy at regular intervals - and at least quarterly
- Proactively secure new, commercially lucrative new leads and relationships
- Ensuring our products and service offerings are up to date, and innovating in new areas where necessary
- Overseeing the administration of a database of clients and contacts
- Ensuring our marketing tools are up-to date, relevant and innovative
- Looking outside of our organisation for new opportunities
- Report on and analyse new business pipeline and business financial targets
Job location
Due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, the If You Could team are working remotely with the option to use our studio based in London, Haggerston, for those who need it most. The company is supporting individuals to work from where they feel most comfortable for the remainder of 2021. We will facilitate teams who want to meet and collaborate on a regular basis post-lockdown.
Details
- We are proud to be an accredited London Living Wage employer
- Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 DOE
- Level: Senior
- Reporting to: Will Hudson, Group Director
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am — 6pm (flexible hours between 8am – 7pm)
Key dates
- Applications close: 6pm Wednesday 28th July 2021
- Start date: September 2021