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Business Development Manager (IT)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 2+ Years B2B sales experience, ideally within the technology sector
  • A desire to drive your sales career forward
  • A proven record of hitting targets and KPI’s
  • The confidence to deal with decision-makers in senior positions

Responsibilities

  • Work on your own initiative and generate your own leads
  • Hold business level conversations with directors and business owners
  • Spot, develop and close opportunities
  • Drive sales and achieve targets

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Self-Motivation

About the company

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Smart IT

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • SME
  • 51–200
Smart IT was founded in 2008, based in Team Valley, Gateshead. We provide friendly, professional and reliable IT support and Telecommunications to local businesses within the North East. Winner of the North Easts Best IT Support Company and Top 50 Managed Service Providers in the UK, we have a proven track record of successfully delivering IT solutions.We are a leading Microsoft Certified Partner demonstrating our proven expertise in delivering quality solutions, we have gained our ISO9001 Quality Management System standard, ISO 27001 Information Security Management standard and are Certified HP Business Partners.Although typically we serve businesses with between 10 and 500 workstations and servers, our portfolio ranges from working on some of the largest IT networks in the North East to simple one-off PC/server repairs. Smart IT is continuing to grow from strength to strength, with service circa of 800 clients, serviced by over 50 IT and communication professionals. We constantly invest in new technologies and resources to ensure the services we offer become more efficient and responsive. Our customers are in a diverse range of industries including finance, construction, legal, charities, manufacturing, media, NHS, education and other IT specialists. For every single customer we develop and deliver a customised support plan to satisfy their unique requirements, expectations and budget.

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Job description

Smart IT is a rapidly growing multi-award-winning technology services company based in the Team Valley, Gateshead. We provide IT and Telecoms services to hundreds of businesses within he North East.

Being well positioned to assist businesses with their remote working and technology requirements, Smart IT have experienced a record year of growth and require an experienced Business Development Manager to join our expanding sales team.

You will be a confident, enthusiastic, and self-motivated person able to work on your own initiative and generate your own leads.

You will have a customer focused attitude, mature outlook and good communication skills with the ability to hold business level conversations with directors and business owners, as well as the ability to spot, develop and close opportunities.

What we’re looking for:

  • 2+ Years B2B sales experience, ideally within the technology sector
  • A desire to drive your sales career forward
  • A proven record of hitting targets and KPI’s
  • You don’t think cold-calling is dead. It’s tough but it works
  • A desire and hunger to close deals
  • The confidence to deal with decision-makers in senior positions
  • A consultative approach

Ready to take on the challenge? If you’ve got a passion for people, sales and tech, we’d love to hear from you.

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