Careers.

The role

As our New Business Director, you’ll lead, shape and deliver the New Business function. You’ll deliver the highest quality of response, performance and solution whilst achieving the objectives and targets set by the leadership team.

The day to day

As Director of the New Business function, you’ll enjoy a varied and engaging strategic role that sees you proactively shape and deliver the new client acquisition strategy to drive overall business growth.

With a passion for people, you’ll spend a lot of time working in close collaboration with colleagues from across our talented teams – from generating new leads and developing a sales pipeline with Marketing to joining forces with the Senior Client Services team to identify new business opportunities that are right up our street.

Your dynamic and initiative-packed approach will also prove key to helping ensure that we stand out from the competition as you lead the preparation of proposals, pitches and tenders.

From the bigger picture to the finer details, your keen eye for accuracy will be required to keep our CRM system updated and optimised with all appropriate sales data. You’ll also manage all overhead expenditures according to agreed budgets and produce monthly reports to inform your insightful recommendations to the Leadership team for continuous improvement.

While externally, you’ll be managing the relationship with external lead generation companies, internally, you’ll be leading our New Business charge with a view to building a team over time.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a minimum of 10 years of experience in a similar role in an agency setting
• Can successfully build relationships with a variety of stakeholders – including internal teams, external suppliers and clients
• Is a motivated people manager with previous experience in managing a team
• Is an accomplished strategic thinker with the ability to develop and deliver sales plans, client acquisition strategies, and associated activities
• Has previous experience in managing agreed budgets
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the latest market developments, including opportunities, innovations and trends
• Is driven to deliver and takes a solution-focused approach

We can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• 24 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Enhanced pension scheme (with 5% employer contribution)
• Healthcare cashback scheme
• Life assurance scheme
• Company profit share scheme
• Performance-related bonus

This is being advertised as a full-time role and is primarily home-based, with a hot-desking office in Northampton. Note that this role will include occasional travel to meet clients.