Location: North Oxfordshire, with travel to venues and events
* Role Type: Full-time, office-based
* Salary: c. £35,000 - £40,000 basic, depending on experience, plus uncapped commission
Business Development Executive
JM&Co. is supporting a specialist in premium event branding in their search for a Business Development Executive.
This established business delivers high-impact branding solutions for major sporting events, from large-scale signage and bespoke installations to full venue branding. Their work features across some of the best-known events in the sporting calendar.
This is a more commercially focused opportunity suited to someone with solid business development experience, particularly in generating new opportunities, opening doors, visiting prospects and building long-term client relationships.
The role
* Proactively generating new business opportunities across sporting events, venues and brand partners
* Cold calling, prospecting and arranging meetings with potential clients
* Visiting prospects and building strong commercial relationships
* Developing and managing a healthy sales pipeline
* Preparing proposals, quotations and presentations
* Maintaining accurate CRM records and sales activity updates
* Representing the business at venues, trade shows and industry events
Experience and skills
* Previous experience in business development, sales or a similar commercial role
* Confident with cold outreach, lead generation and face-to-face meetings
* Strong relationship-building and communication skills
* Commercially minded, proactive and self-motivated
* Organised, professional and comfortable using CRM systems
* Experience within events, branding, signage, print or a related sector would be helpful
What’s on offer
* Basic salary up to c. £40,000, depending on experience (OTE UNCAPPED!)
* 28 days’ holiday (inc. Bank Holidays), increasing with service
* Life assurance
* Contributory pension scheme
* Professional training and development within the wider group
* Wellbeing support, including access to 24/7 GP and counselling services
* Extra perks including birthday leave, employee rewards, discount vouchers and regular social events