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Business Development Manager - Digital Marketing Agency
Salary - £40,000 to £45,000 basic D.O.E £60,000 OTE
Location - Hybrid with 2 days per week in our Altrincham office
Dark Horse is a renowned digital marketing agency based near Manchester, specialising in SEO, PPC, Digital PR and Paid Social. With a diverse clientele and a commitment to delivering exceptional results, we're recruiting for a BDM to expand the Sales and Marketing team.
The role
The most important part of any business. This is not a customer success, account manager or growth hacking title. It's BD. Sales. We will shout that from the rooftop. Sales is to be celebrated not camouflaged. We are looking for someone with a hungry mindset, keen to deliver, and keen to raise awareness of what the team can achieve.
* Outline the Dark Horse difference with every touch point in the sales cycle.
* Develop relationships with prospects and partners.
* Build your own pipeline of new business opportunities aka outbound.
* Follow-up on marketing campaigns to further build your pipeline.
* Manage inbound leads, maximising lifetime value to Dark Horse.
* Pitch and win new business for Dark.
TLDR - Sales.
What's on offer
We think we've built a great place to work, where every individual feels rewarded for the effort, they put in. Enjoy this along with:
* Basic salary £40,000 to £45,000 D.O.E with uncapped bonuses
* First year's target earnings is £60,000
* Second year on target earning is £90,000
* Hybrid working
* Flexitime
* Birthday off, obvs
* Leafy Altrincham location
* Mental Wellbeing BUPA programme
* Dark Horse will carbon offset your role with The Dark Forest (green is good)
* Working in an amazing team - Learning from some fantastic people
The requirements
* Proven experience developing your own pipeline.
* Proven experience in B2B sales.
* Be motivated by targets and to earn commission.
* Excellent relationship-building skills.
* Solid written and verbal communication skills.
* Good sense of humour.
* All the gimmes - confidence, organisation, IT skills, proactive, etc.
This is about making a difference - To clients, to us and to YOU.
This is a hybrid role - 2 days per week in the office. No remote applications.
If you're driven and ready to grow, we'd love to hear from you!
