Business Development Consultant

About the role
We're on the lookout for highly driven and motivated individuals to join Moorepay as Business Development Consultants! This is a great opportunity for you to join a supportive, exciting and growing business to generate new business sales opportunities for our Business Development Managers.
Your role will be primarily using the data on our CRM systems to call clients and book in appointments for our Business Development Managers. You'll also be responsible for managing your own data and updating this on our internal systems.
If you're looking to progress your sales career in a fun and collaborative team, with supportive management and a strong progression path, we would love to hear from you! This isn’t your typical sales role or call centre environment - we’re a friendly bunch of people and you'll get the freedom to really make this role your own and learn from a well-established team of sales professionals.
We love to reward our people for their hard work, so you'll get the opportunity to earn more with our competitive commission structure. We offer a flexible benefits package, a comprehensive programme of learning and development, and a great work/life balance.
You'll work alongside your team from our Swinton (Manchester) offices Monday-Thursday, with Fridays working remotely.
Key responsibilities include:
* Contacting businesses using data provisions to feed field sales team with new business sales opportunities.
* Effectively following up on prospect data, inbound leads and marketing campaigns to build up and nurture a long-term pipeline of sales opportunities.
* Ensuring all key details - decision makers, incumbent suppliers and contractual periods - are updated on all leads where possible.
* Using specialised tools, social media and news channels to identify business issues which help position Moorepay products and services to give us a competitive advantage.
* Driving own activity to continually achieve desired KPIs.
* Effective utilisation of data and CRM/database to update/record accurate details about clients and prospects.
* Working closely with other departments to ensure success in delivering a quality service to our clients.
Skills & experience
* Previous sales experience, whether this is in a telephone based role or within a customer service/retail background.
* Excellent customer service skills.
* Experience within the sales process is beneficial.
* Confident, strong communicator with charisma and gravitas.
* Willing and capable of learning and adapting quickly.
* Educated to a minimum of GCSE Level - Maths & English essential.
Benefits & culture
Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Farnborough and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!
To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.
Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:
* A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
* A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
* Competitive base salary plus great commission earning potential.
* 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
* Private medical insurance.
* Life assurance 4x salary.
* Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
* A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure