New Business Manager - Savvy & Victor

Uckfield

Closing date: 20/03/2012

Savvy & Victor are a brand development, marketing and creative communication and design agency.

We are a passionate team dedicated to creating valuable and effective brands and brand communications.

Our HQ, in Uckfield, East Sussex, is centrally positioned between Brighton, Crawley, London, Tunbridge Wells and Lewes. From here we work for businesses of all sizes at local, national and international levels.

Job Description:
To proactively source and develop new client relationships, generating new income for Savvy & Victor to agreed annual targets. • Shape the new business strategy, suggesting processes and methods of marketing the company to engage with the target audience. • Understand the market and key client base of Savvy & Victor. • Present Savvy & Victor to potential clients through direct communication in face to face meetings, telephone calls and emails. • Generate leads and set appointments with potential clients, inviting the Creative Director to appropriate meetings. • Attend networking events outside normal business hours, making new contacts and representing the agency. • Encourage client focus throughout the team, motivating other members of staff to ask for referrals and look for new business opportunities when appropriate. • Ensure every opportunity is identified and maximised in order to meet sales targets. • Represent Savvy & Victor at industry events and tradeshows, presenting your professional manner and polished appearance to assist with new business leads and contacts. • Maintain a thorough understanding of clients marketing and PR objectives. • Ensure Savvy & Victor remains proactive and responsive to prospective clients. • Log pitches made, record successes and failures with reasons, report on pitch successes in the monthly new business meetings. Operational • Manage the sales process to produce sales, through lead generation, pitching the agency, identifying client needs and presenting solutions. • Manage and maintain a pipeline, making sure each lead is recorded and followed up on. • Support the Accounts Management team with pitches as required. • Respond to tenders and requests for information in a timely manner. • Interact effectively with the rest of the team when handing over projects and campaigns to ensure both you and they are fully and correctly briefed in all aspects of the projects.
Skills Range:
• Worked as a business developer in an agency environment. • Previous experience developing leads and assisting in winning pitches. • Success building strong relationships and rapport with client. • Great presentation and client-facing skills their business in order to provide an excellent service. • Confident on the telephone, articulate, good communicator. • Persuasive, able to sell self and the agency. • Able to understand the sales process and good at closing sales. • Dynamic, self motivated, enthusiastic, outgoing, sociable. • Able to work on and track multiple projects simultaneously.
Salary:	Negotiated on experience
How to apply:
Please contact us on: youneedme@savvyandvictor.com to send us your CV and covering letter
Contact Name:	Joanna Allen
Attendance:	Full-Time
Company:	Savvy & Victor
Email Address:	youneedme@savvyandvictor.com
Website:	http://www.savvyandvictor.com

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