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Activate Group Limited Business Development Director in halifax, United Kingdom

Job title: Business Development Director (motor)

Department: Motor Repair Network

Location: Remote with nationwide travel

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: competitive with commission based bonus

We're looking for a Business Development Director to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.

**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Responsible for the lead generation, pipeline and conversion of sales opportunities for Motor Repair Network. Maximising commercial value to increase both revenue and profit alongside creating great working relationships with new and existing partners.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead on all new business/ revenue opportunities to attract, develop and secure through to contract signatory

  • plan and repare customer specific presentations targeted to the audience and demonstrating the tangible benefits to our solution

  • Manage tendr/bid/RFQ/RFI processes, inclusive of customer site visits and presentations

  • Maximise income generated from existing customer base, through enhanced commercials or through new product developments

  • Work with the Product team to create leading sales and marketing collateral

  • Attend conferences, meetings and industry events to network with potential customers, increase industry knowledge and develop new markets, improving sales

Skills and experience

  • extensive expereinc in a fast growth motor industry organisation

  • competent with all microsoft software including excel for commercial proposals

  • experience of delivering new business sales

  • strong people skills, experience in presenting to various size audiences

  • capability to deal with competing priorities

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

  • Life assurance: three times basic salary

  • Amazing Christmas & Summer parties

  • Free breakfasts and fruit

  • Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

We also love to have fun together, and our whole company summer and Christmas parties are pretty legendary!

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

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