Business Development Executive
Hybrid, Loughborough,
£25,000–£28,000 per annum + Commission
Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:00

Macildowie are working with this client based in Loughborough, a rapidly growing, commercially focused marketing agency that delivers strategic and creative solutions to help businesses achieve measurable growth.

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and ambitious Sales & Events Executive to join a growing business and play a key role in developing new client relationships, generating qualified sales opportunities and delivering exclusive networking events.

If you're confident starting conversations, passionate about business development and enjoy building relationships with senior decision-makers, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

The Role

Working closely with the Head of Growth, you'll be responsible for identifying prospective clients, generating qualified meetings and supporting the development of a strong B2B sales pipeline.

Alongside your business development responsibilities, you'll take ownership of planning and delivering targeted networking and roundtable events designed to build relationships and create commercial opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Research and identify prospective B2B clients and key decision-makers.
• Generate new business opportunities through cold calling, LinkedIn outreach, personalised emails and networking.
• Qualify leads by understanding business challenges, budgets, decision-making processes and timescales.
• Arrange qualified discovery meetings for the Head of Growth.
• Maintain relationships with prospective clients through consistent and effective follow-up.
• Support proposal preparation, presentations and sales administration.
• Manage and update CRM records, ensuring accurate pipeline information and activity tracking.
• Plan and deliver exclusive roundtable events for prospective and existing clients.
• Coordinate event invitations, venues, speakers, logistics and attendee communications.
• Attend networking events to build relationships and identify new business opportunities.
• Monitor sales activity, meeting conversion and event-generated opportunities.
• Work towards agreed targets for qualified meetings, pipeline generation and new business contribution.

About You

We're looking for a commercially minded, proactive individual who enjoys sales, relationship building and creating opportunities.

You'll ideally have:

• Proven experience in B2B sales, business development or sales development.
• Experience working within a B2B marketing environment.
• A track record of generating qualified sales meetings and opportunities.
• Confidence with cold calling, outbound prospecting and LinkedIn outreach.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage senior decision-makers.
• An understanding of marketing services and how they contribute to business growth.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience using CRM systems to manage prospects and sales activity.
• A target-driven mindset and the motivation to achieve commercial results.

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience within a marketing, digital or creative agency.
• Planning and delivering B2B networking events or executive roundtables.
• Experience using Pipedrive or LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
• Supporting sales proposals and presentations.

What's on Offer?

• 2.5% monthly commission on eligible revenue from clients secured through your opportunities, for the first 12 months.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• On-site parking.
• Opportunity to work closely with an experienced Head of Growth.
• Exposure to a broad range of marketing services and commercial projects.
• Genuine career development opportunities within a growing sales team.
• A collaborative, ambitious and commercially focused working environment.

Interested?

If you're an enthusiastic business development professional who enjoys generating opportunities, building relationships and making a measurable commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.