Strategic Business Development Manager

2 months ago


UK, UK, United Kingdom Vypr Full time

Job Title

Customer Development Partner / Strategic Sales for Existing Customers

Reports to

Head of Customer Operationa

Location/work pattern

Hybrid - UK based with travel to Manchester office once per month

Salary

£60,000 to £65,000 depending on experience plus bonus




What we do



Vypr is a Manchester HQ’d Private Equity/Venture Capital backed SaaS business. Our market-leading product intelligence platform provides reliable consumer data to help manufacturers and retailers understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and cost spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster.


We’re a scale-up business with huge growth ambitions. We’ve proved product market fit with our existing offering and now we’re ready to scale at pace. We’re using scalable new technology to reimagine our product intelligence platform with limitless future potential, from personalisation to AI enhanced insight.


The Customer Growth team's objective is to grow our existing customer revenue by making Vypr 'easy to love and hard to leave'. This comes from combining exceptional customer experience and providing product solutions that helping our customers achieve their business objectives. The team has over 150 years of combined Product experience which allows us to leverage our expertise as a Product Intelligence provider.



Things that you will do



  • Deliver a world-class sales experience
  • Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in prospect organisations
  • Undertake sales process from prospect identification, product demonstrations, proposal creation, negotiation and deal closing
  • Use lateral thinking to overcome objections and create compelling proposals
  • Ensure proposals are commercially viable and meet assigned targets for sales volume, value, mix and margin
  • Create multi-threaded deals across multiple teams or customers
  • Work closely with Customer Growth Partners to identify opportunities within their accounts
  • Lead proposal creation that best addresses customer needs, while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel
  • Analyse and refine Customer Development Process
  • Raise company profile and creating contacts and expositions and seminars
  • Be aware of market trends and competitors
  • Maintain a positive attitude that inspires co-workers and customers to grow the business
  • Demonstrate pipeline of opportunities



What you will be responsible for



  • Sales quota of £300,000
  • Meets assigned performance expectations
  • Ensures first-class customer satisfaction, that meets the high standards expected by Vypr
  • Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame


What you are good at



  • Strategic / senior sales experience essential (experience in consumer insights/market research strongly preferred)
  • Superstar that consistently over-delivers against targets
  • Demonstrates pipeline that supports over-achievement
  • Ability to balance ‘data driven’ decisions with experience, to make the right call
  • Excellent business acumen and results orientated
  • Good time management skills are essential
  • Comfortable with both independent and team working environments
  • Is able to anticipate problems and forward-plan
  • Is confident, enthusiastic and a hard-working self-starter and problem solver




What’s important to you



Agile – use your previous sales experience to decide on the next possible step in unexpected situations

Caring – supporting the wider team to ensure we hit team targets

Driven – self-reliance to upskill and constantly learn and grow

Candid – contributing to team discussions and creating new team processes



What we offer



  • Hybrid working
  • Company paid medical cashplan
  • Enhanced annual leave
  • Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks a year
  • Access to a global benefits and reward platform
  • Access to well-being support, including an Employee Assistance Programmes
  • Life Assurance
  • Day off on your birthday
  • Volunteering day
  • Enhanced parental leave



What next?


Our Talent Selection process focusses on creating a mutual, fair and transparent dialogue that helps you and us to establish whether the role could be a rewarding career fit. We will create space to discuss your ambitions and our growth plans as well as context of the role, give you the opportunity to engage with your potential Line Manager and Team Members, showcase your skills in a live task and to visit our Manchester HQ.



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