Business Development Executive
Job description
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Business Development Executive (Internal Sales)
- £60,000 On Target Earnings | Office-Based (Five Days per Week)
- Excellent Working Environment
Accomplish Today’s client is seeking a driven and commercially focused Business Development Executive to join a high-performing internal sales team within a leading umbrella payroll organisation.
This is a pure outbound sales role, engaging with an existing contractor base to reactivate relationships, generate revenue, and deliver a professional, consultative sales experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct high volume outbound calls to existing and lapsed contractors
- Re engage contractors and convert them into active employment
- Identify and close revenue-generating opportunities
- Manage a structured personal sales pipeline from initial contact to close
- Maintain consistent activity, conversion, and revenue performance
- Record all activity accurately within internal systems
Skills and Experience Required
- Proven success in an outbound sales, telesales, or internal sales role
- Strong track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets
- Confident communicator with strong influencing and closing skills
- Highly motivated, resilient, and target-driven
- Organised with the ability to manage multiple opportunities
What Is on Offer
- £60,000 On Target Earnings (which is VERY realistic)
- Established contractor base with strong opportunity to convert
- High-performance sales environment
- Supportive team culture
- Clear opportunities for career progression
Key skills
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Application advice
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📞 Highlight your outbound sales metrics at the top: 'Generated £X revenue through 150+ daily calls'
🎯 Quantify your target achievement: 'Exceeded sales targets by 25% for 8 consecutive quarters'
💼 Emphasise contractor or B2B experience as this role focuses on existing contractor reactivation
📊 Include CRM proficiency and pipeline management skills as accurate activity recording is essential
🔄 Showcase relationship building abilities since the role involves re-engaging lapsed contractors
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- •Generated £180k annual revenue through 150+ daily outbound calls, exceeding sales targets by 28% across 12 consecutive months
- •Reactivated 240 lapsed clients using consultative sales approach, converting 35% back to active status within 6-month period
- •Managed 85-opportunity sales pipeline using CRM systems, maintaining 22% conversion rate from initial contact to close
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Accomplish Today's Business Development Executive role represents exactly the high-volume outbound sales challenge I'm seeking, particularly the focus on contractor reactivation and the realistic £60k OTE structure. My proven track record in telesales and internal sales, combined with experience managing structured sales pipelines, aligns perfectly with your requirements for engaging existing contractor bases.
My background in outbound sales includes consistently exceeding targets through disciplined pipeline management and relationship building with B2B clients, skills that translate directly to contractor reactivation.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How do you manage and prioritise a high-volume outbound calling schedule?
- ›What CRM systems have you used to track sales pipeline and activity?
- ›How do you approach reactivating lapsed customers or contractors?
- ›What techniques do you use to convert cold calls into sales opportunities?
- ›How do you maintain consistent performance when dealing with rejection?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded your sales targets significantly
- ›Describe a situation where you had to re-engage a difficult or unresponsive client
- ›Give an example of how you handled a particularly challenging sales objection
- ›Tell me about a time you had to manage multiple sales opportunities simultaneously
- ›Describe a situation where your persistence paid off in closing a deal
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you exceeded your sales targets significantly
Describe a situation where you had to re-engage a difficult or unresponsive client