Job Opportunities API

Job Overview We are seeking a pure hunter-style Business Developer to open new client accounts, develop new territories and generate new recruitment opportunities. This is not a traditional 360 recruitment role. The primary focus will be on business development, cold outreach, winning new clients and securing qualified job briefs. Some candidate resourcing responsibilities may be introduced at a later stage, but the immediate priority is generating new business. Requirements Key Responsibilities Identify and approach prospective clients across the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors. Conduct high volumes of telephone-based business-development activity. Open new client accounts and develop new geographical or sector-based territories. Engage hiring managers and senior decision-makers. Qualify prospective clients and recruitment requirements. Secure detailed and workable job briefs. Build relationships with new prospects from the first cold contact. Maintain consistent follow-up activity across telephone, email and LinkedIn. Develop a pipeline of prospective and active clients. Use market-mapping and lead-generation tools to identify target organisations. Record business-development activity and maintain accurate CRM information. Work towards revenue, client-acquisition and job-generation targets. Assist with candidate resourcing later, depending on business requirements. Candidate Profile The successful candidate should be: Hungry, ambitious and strongly motivated by financial success. Tenacious and comfortable working in a highly proactive sales environment. Confident making cold calls and dealing with rejection. Naturally phone-first in their approach to business development. Able to build a recruitment desk or target market from the ground up. Skilled at opening new accounts and converting cold prospects into clients. Confident qualifying job briefs and identifying genuine hiring requirements. Self-motivated and capable of working independently from home. Comfortable working UK business hours. Ideal Background The strongest candidates will have experience in: Engineering recruitment. Manufacturing recruitment. Technical recruitment. Design-engineering or project-engineering recruitment. New-business development within a recruitment agency. Building a cold recruitment desk or entering a new market. Benefits Systems and Tools Provided SourceWhale for outreach campaigns. Lusha. Market Mapper for identifying markets, candidates and hiring managers. Ringover telephone system with call-transcription functionality. Leading recruitment job boards. LinkedIn Recruiter. LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Additional tools may be considered where they demonstrate a clear return on investment.