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Business Development Executive - #35387

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on driving business growth by identifying and engaging high-value accounts in the Philippines. You will work with an AI-first Customer Experience Management company, collaborating with experts to enhance customer feedback workflows and improve client relationships.

Qualifications

  • 1–3 years of experience in B2B Sales, Business Development, Lead Generation, or Appointment Setting.
  • Knowledge of lead generation, account research, cold calling, email outreach, and LinkedIn prospecting.
  • Ability to identify potential clients and secure qualified prospect meetings.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Tagalog.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with CRM platforms and sales prospecting tools is an advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, research, and map high-value accounts across target Philippine sectors.
  • Engage key decision-makers via cold calling, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and personalized email cadences.
  • Travel locally to attend face-to-face meetings, executive roundtables, and industry conferences.
  • Conduct discovery conversations to uncover prospect pain points and qualify opportunities.

Key facts

  • Remote from: Philippines, Asia, APAC
  • Full time
  • Junior (1-2 years)
  • Business Development Executive
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Persistence

About the company

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Manila Recruitment

  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • SME
  • 11–50
Manila Recruitment is a full service recruitment consultancy providing executive, expert and technical recruitment support for the Filipino market. We are the leader in innovation for recruitment solutions in the Philippines since 2010. We were born from entrepreneurial roots, and carefully crafted into a full-service consultancy that delivers a suite of innovative headhunting and talent sourcing solutions. Our expertise is defined by an unparalleled understanding of the “big picture” business needs of our clients, and how recruitment solutions can only be tailored for optimum results when a holistic view is taken. The Manila Recruitment difference is rooted in our passion to scour the globe for cutting-edge developments in recruitment science. We get genuinely excited by developments in social sourcing strategies, web 3.0 tools for headhunters and areas of innovation that can help us deliver the best client and candidate experiences. We identify and deliver the latest international recruitment strategies specifically adapted for headhunting talent within the Filipino market. Producing unrivalled access to perfectly matched, previously undiscoverable talent for our clients. The recipe is simple, innovation, international best practice, combined with local market knowledge, a candidate database of over 40,000 and growing, and of course our greatest asset – simply the best team of passive talent sourcing, end-to-end recruitment consultants in the Philippines!

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Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for you to grow your career by working with cutting-edge neuroscience and AI technologies, gaining experience in advanced market research, and collaborating with experts across Southeast Asia.

Company Profile:

Our client is an AI-first Customer Experience Management (CXM) and Market Research technology company that helps businesses turn customer feedback into actionable insights and measurable business outcomes.

Trusted by over 500 companies across more than 20 countries, our client works with leading organisations across various industries to help them better understand customer behaviour, improve customer experiences, strengthen customer loyalty, and drive business growth.

Its unified platform combines omnichannel feedback management, AI-powered text and sentiment analytics, real-time dashboards, automated customer journey insights, and advanced market research capabilities. Powered by its proprietary AI engine, the platform enables businesses to uncover insights faster, identify critical experience gaps, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Beyond providing software solutions, our client positions itself as a strategic CX partner, helping organisations move beyond simply collecting feedback to taking meaningful action that delivers measurable business impact.

With a growing international presence and a strong commitment to innovation, customer success, and AI-led transformation, our client continues to shape the future of customer experience management.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Enterprise Account Mapping: Identify, research, and map high-value accounts
  • across target Philippine sectors (Banking/Fintech, Retail, Telecommunications, Real
  • Estate, BPO, and Insurance).
  • C-Level Outbound Prospecting: Hunt down and engage key decision-makers
  • (CXOs, CMOs, Heads of CX/Service) via cold calling, LinkedIn Sales Navigator,
  • personalized email cadences, and professional networking.
  • Field & Road Engagements: Travel locally across Metro Manila's central
  • business hubs (primarily Taguig/BGC, Makati, and Pasig) to attend face-to-face
  • meetings, executive roundtables, and industry conferences alongside leadership.
  • Relentless Pipeline Chase: Take complete ownership of lead follow-up.
  • Systematically and creatively chase busy executives to reactivate dormant
  • opportunities and secure confirmed calendar slots.
  • Discovery & Qualification: Conduct sharp introductory discovery
  • conversations to uncover prospect pain points in customer feedback workflows,
  • qualifying opportunities before handing them over to senior solution leads.
  • CRM & Pipeline Hygiene: Maintain clean, real-time records of accounts, contacts,
  • outreach touchpoints, and meeting milestones in the CRM.

Requirements

Skills/Qualifications

  • Open to fresh graduates and candidates with 1–3 years of experience in B2B Sales, Business Development (SDR/BDR), Lead Generation, Appointment Setting, or Corporate Outreach.
  • Knowledge of lead generation, account research, cold calling, email outreach, LinkedIn prospecting, and appointment setting.
  • Ability to identify potential clients, engage decision-makers, establish business connections, and secure qualified prospect meetings.
  • Willing to work on a hybrid or remote arrangement, attend client meetings when necessary, and travel locally for client-facing engagements.

Advantageous:

  • Familiarity with CRM platforms, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, and other sales prospecting tools is an advantage.
  • Experience with relative industry (Saas and Software Solutions) – not required.
  • Female candidates are strongly preferred.
  • Generally targeting early-career professionals in their 20s or early 30s, with exceptional candidates also considered.

Soft Skills and Other Competencies:

  • Naturally sociable, energetic, confident, and comfortable initiating conversations with new people and engaging in executive-level discussions.
  • Persistent and disciplined in conducting multi-touch follow-ups, navigating busy executive schedules, and converting prospects into qualified opportunities.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Tagalog, with the ability to articulate business value clearly and confidently.
  • Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships. Existing business networks or connections are a strong advantage.

Job Type: Full-Time Permanent

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8AM-5PM or 9AM-6PM (PHT)

Location: Hybrid/Work-From-Home

Industry: Saas/Software Solutions

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