Sales Manager - Business Development Executives

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Job Title: Sales Manager - Business Development Executives

Direct reports: up to 10

Reporting to: Head of Acquisition Sales

Department: Small & Medium Business

Location: Preston Brook/ up to 3 days in the office

Closing date: 28/06/2022

About the Role

You'll play an integral part in the New Business Sales team division within the Small/ Medium Business area. Grow pipeline through proactive prospecting activity and conversion of Marketing generated leads. With the hunter mindset, you’ll deliver results by developing and implementing action plans, correct forecasting, and enhancing your personal performance. Moreover, as a Team Manager, you'll coach and mentor up to 10 Business Development Executives (BDE)s. This role will primarily be desk-based, with occasional travel to visit your customers.

Who we are

At Virgin Media O2 we're going All In, to remove bias and barriers for our people and our candidates. We're working hard to achieve bold ambitions, to help us better represent the diverse communities we serve across the UK. As an equal opportunities employer, we support and encourage you, to be your authentic self throughout your application journey.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage a team of sales professionals to deliver on all individual targets and important metrics through building a balanced pipeline of new sales opportunities
• You'll collaborate with the Solution Specialist Team, Finance & Marketing to build and own your clear plan to deliver against targets
• Pipeline management and proactive prospecting to be delivered consistently across each of your heads
• You will build and lead mentor programs enabling further development of your team

The must-haves

In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;

• B2B sales experience in an environment that requires delivery of multiple sales critical metrics
• Management experience
• Strong Commercial Competence
• Results Orientated

The other stuff we're looking for

We'd also love you to bring;

• Mentoring and mentoring experience
• Working in an agile way
• Telco background desirable

What's in it for you?

We know that benefits mean so much more than the 'stuff' we can give you, so we offer a wide range of support, rewards and tools - all focused on helping you to prioritise what really matters.

All work and no play just isn't our style! We're already planning our future ways of working, for when life becomes a little more normal again. We're constantly evolving our approach to enable you to find a great work-life balance.

Next steps

If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you. Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a short screening call from the recruiter, followed by the two-stage recruitment process.

When you apply, you'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you. Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining the Virgin Media O2 family.

We’ll be sending you emails about the status of your application. To make sure you receive these, please add @O2.com and @telefonica.com to your Safe Senders list.

We’re looking to pay a great compensation package (depending on experience) for this position. We also offer plenty of extras to sweeten the deal, which could include things like bonuses, life assurance cover, health care and lots of flexible benefits.  

Also, every employee has their personal development supported with a LinkedIn learning account; plus other role specific learning available through our award-winning digital learning platform - O2 Campus. 

We also believe a great work-life balance is important, so we’re open to considering flexible working arrangements. Like to know more, feel free to raise it.  

Join us and we’ll encourage you to be bold every day. So take a deep breath, your career is about to go to exciting new places. 

If you have any questions around the role then please email ResourceTUK@o2.com who will be happy to help.