Job Title: Business Development Executive
📝 Contract Type: Permanent
💰 Salary: Up to £30,000
🎁 Benefits: Private Medical, Pension, 25 days annual leave, Gym Membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme
🏢 Office Location/Working Policy: Onsite
🕔 Working Hours: 8:45 to 17:30
🕵🏻 What to wear: Smart casual
The Role:
As a Business Development Executive, you will be at the forefront of our growth strategy, responsible for opening doors and shaping opportunities with new clients. This is a consultative sales role that requires both commercial acumen and a strong grasp of how technology enables business outcomes.
As the first point of contact for prospective customers, engaging senior decision-makers at a board and technology level across IT, Cyber and Data and AI functions. Your role goes beyond selling services, you’ll position us as a strategic partner, helping clients modernise operations, strengthen resilience, and unlock value from technology.
You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including sales leaders and marketing, to construct tailored propositions that address our target market challenges. Success will be measured not just in revenue, but in your ability to create long-term, trusted relationships that lead to sustained growth.
Role Responsibilities:
• Leveraging industry-leading tools such as Microsoft Dynamics and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, supported by a formidable sales engine and a creative marketing team, to secure high-value introductions.
• Embodying a tailored approach to business development, aligning Acora’s full-stack solutions to the real challenges of our prospects, rather than following a ‘spray and pray’ model.
• Conducting in-depth market research, assisting with marketing campaigns, creating compelling outreach, attending sales meetings, and collaborating with the commercial team to gain full sales cycle visibility.
• Bringing drive and energy, approaching every opportunity with confidence and determination to showcase Acora’s end-to-end IT and digital transformation solutions.
• Applying competitiveness and commercial awareness, staying on top of market trends, competitor activity, and client challenges to position Acora’s full stack offering as the partner of choice.
• Communicating with impact, delivering clear, persuasive, and professional messaging in written and spoken formats that resonate with key decision makers.
• Collaborating across teams, embracing our core value Together We Win, working seamlessly with Sales, Marketing, and other business experts to align on the right solutions and services for prospects.
• Staying informed and relevant, keeping up to date with business news, technology trends, and current affairs to add value to every client conversation.
• Building on a foundation of achievement, leveraging your academic success and/or prior corporate experience to thrive in a fast-paced, commercial environment
Key Skills:
• Minimum of 6 months of experience in similar role
• Communication Skills
• Customer Service skills
• Leadership/Management skills
• Strategic Planning/Planning skills
• Technical skills
• Decision-making skills
• Process following and attention to detail
The Interview Process:
☎️ Screening call: Phone call with our recruitment team to assess your suitability for the role, but also if the role is right for you.
🚀 First interview: A video call over MS Teams with the Hiring Manager
🤝🏻 Second interview: Usually F2F interview onsite at one of our offices (this will involve a task/presentation).
About Acora
We’ve been on a mission to improve end user satisfaction since the day we were founded over 25 years ago. As champions of premium experience-led IT services, it is who we are. We constantly challenge old assumptions and inherited wisdom, and demonstrate there are other, better ways to do things.
Our mission is to unleash the potential of people through amazing IT experiences.
At Acora, we live by three key and simple values that drive everything we do guiding our actions, shaping our culture, and ensuring we deliver excellence every step of the way.
#1 BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
We challenge ourselves to raise our game each day. By embracing a mindset of growth, we continuously strive to improve ourselves, our ways of working, and the service we deliver to our customers.
#2 WE DO WHAT WE SAY
When we make a promise, we follow-through - no excuses. We don’t leave anyone hanging or walk away from challenges. Reliable and focused, we value clear communication to build trust and give customers, and colleagues, the confidence they can count on us every time.
#3 TOGETHER WE WIN
Business is the biggest team sport of them all. By communicating well, breaking down silos and staying aligned, we create clarity and focus. Strong relationships, shared goals and commitment make us a winning team – for each other and for our customers.
To be considered for this position, you must have full rights to work in the UK.
Equal Opportunities at Acora
Acora is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal opportunities regardless of race or ethnic origin, gender identity, family situation, sexual orientation, disability, religion or age. We hire our people on the basis of qualifications, merit, skills, and business need.
We are a Level 1 Disability Confident Committed Employer and will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request any reasonable adjustments.
Join us at Acora in creating a workplace where everyone can succeed and make an impact. We look forward to welcoming you to our team