Business Development Executive

Business Development Executive (Birmingham)

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Do you want to work for the fastest growing SEO agency in the World (+450% revenue last year) offering excellent pay while having the opportunity to grow your career? As well as working in one of the fastest growing and most profitable sectors in the world, SaaS? If yes, then hit apply now

Benefits:

• Additional Pay
• Realistic commission + £10-14,000 in the first year
• Career development
• Weekly catch-ups
• Bi-yearly development reviews
• Hybrid and flexible working options
• 7.5 hours per day to be completed between 7:30am - 8:30pm
• Core hours between 10am - 4pm, Monday - Friday.
• Holiday
• 20-days holidays + bank holidays + Christmas shutdown + 2 extra days per year for each full year of service up to a total of 8.
• Wellness
• Annual allowance towards helping you maintain and improve your mental and physical well-being
• Travel opportunities
• Upcoming trips include: Barcelona, Dublin and San Francisco

Role Summary:

• Working with the growing sales team to shape the business development in key SaaS verticals
• Using smart sales tools and outbound calling to identify and engage with relevant SaaS businesses.
• Collaborate with marketing to build creative and unique ways to engage with key stakeholders within the SaaS sector
• Build interest from decision-makers through an assessment of their challenges and opportunities, and a clear understanding of the services we can use to help.
• Work with sales to qualify leads and guide opportunities through the sales process.
• Attend events (globally) to maximise our presence within the SaaS industry.
• Meeting clients and partners (globally) to affirm mutual referral relationships.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven work experience in a sales capacity.
• Comfortable finding and using tools to give us a competitive advantage in our outreach.
• Personable and confident communication and presentation skills
• Experience with CRM software or similar task/project organisational software.
• Comfortable working in a very agile working environment.
• Basic knowledge of digital marketing.
• Basic understanding of SaaS

Preferable Skills:

• Experience exceeding goals/quotas
• A strong interest in the tech and SaaS sectors.
• Familiarity with automation and productivity tools such as Zapier, Asana or Phantombuster
• Experience building professional networks
• Experience with Hubspot
• An understanding of or experience with selling in different countries
• An understanding of SEO, particularly its strengths and weaknesses versus other marketing channels.

About accelerate agency:
We've been in the SEO industry since before it was called SEO, specializing in SaaS SEO that is fueled by a combination of human expertise, data analysis and automation.
Our skills lie in the strategic use of content, SEO, large-scale outreach and link building to get our clients organic results that match paid performance channels.
 

But, we're not just about getting results.
We're about finding the leanest, most efficient and effective routes to get there. Forget the old agency adage of 'pulling a late one' - we're all about working smarter, not harder while respecting our colleagues' work life balance.
 

As a fast-growing business looking to scale up quickly, we focus on giving our employees a voice and trusting them to lead. We're happy with either experienced heads who can hit the ground running, or hungry, diamond-in-the-rough types, who aren't phased by the deep end.
 

We welcome new ideas and an array of backgrounds that can really help us to develop across all areas of the business. Our aim for 2022 is to really take things to the next step and be the future of SEO for SaaS.