Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

Warrington

£30,000 - £35,000 + Bonus

Are you an experienced recruitment professional who is at your best when opening doors, winning clients and turning commercial conversations into valuable, long-term partnerships?

You may have worked across the full recruitment cycle but discovered that business development, client engagement and account growth are where you make the greatest impact. Working alongside our Recruitment Manager and recruitment team, you will lead new-client acquisition, develop strategic accounts and help establish successful business units across our specialist markets.

The Role

As Recruitment Business Development Manager, you will take a leading role in expanding our client base and strengthening our position across chosen markets.

Your primary focus will be identifying suitable prospective clients, engaging relevant decision-makers and converting well-qualified opportunities into sustainable commercial relationships.

This is not a high-volume sales role built around indiscriminate calling or generic proposals. You will research your market, understand the pressures facing prospective clients and approach conversations with relevance, credibility and commercial purpose.

Once a client is secured, you will remain involved in developing the relationship. Working closely with recruitment management, account management and delivery colleagues, you will help turn initial requirements into broader, long-term partnerships.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and prioritising prospective clients across agreed markets
• Researching organisations, hiring activity and commercial opportunities
• Mapping and engaging hiring managers, operational leaders and senior decision-makers
• Building and managing a structured new-business pipeline
• Leading discovery calls, client meetings and commercial presentations
• Understanding client challenges and presenting appropriate recruitment solutions
• Negotiating terms and converting opportunities into active accounts
• Securing vacancies, preferred-supplier agreements and longer-term partnerships
• Developing newly secured and strategically important accounts
• Identifying opportunities across additional teams, locations and service areas
• Working with recruitment colleagues to ensure opportunities are properly qualified and deliverable
• Contributing to the development of new markets, divisions and business units
• Maintaining accurate pipeline, activity and client information within the CRM
• Representing LeviCare professionally at meetings, events and networking opportunities

What We Are Looking For

You may already be a Business Development Manager, Recruitment Sales Manager, Client Development Manager, Recruitment Partnerships Manager or Strategic Accounts Manager.

Alternatively, you may be a successful Senior, Principal or Managing Consultant who understands both sides of recruitment but prefers winning business, developing relationships and creating opportunities for a delivery team.

Experience within healthcare, life sciences or another qualified, professional or technical recruitment market would be beneficial, but it is not essential. Strong recruitment-sector knowledge, commercial credibility and the ability to understand a specialist market are more important.

You are likely to succeed if you:

• Have strong agency recruitment or recruitment-sector business-development experience
• Can demonstrate success in generating and converting new-client opportunities
• Know how to identify and engage the right decision-makers
• Can hold credible commercial conversations with senior stakeholders
• Understand the recruitment process and can sell realistic, deliverable solutions
• Building Sustainable Business

At LeviCare, business development is not a numbers exercise disconnected from recruitment delivery.

We want to work with clients whose requirements match our expertise and whose expectations can be met to a consistently high standard. You will create opportunities, but you will also have the commercial judgement to recognise which relationships are worth pursuing.

You will work alongside our Recruitment Manager and wider recruitment team to ensure new business is properly introduced, effectively managed and supported by a clear delivery plan. You will remain commercially involved after the initial client win, without being expected to operate as a traditional 360 consultant.

Opportunity to Shape Growth

As LeviCare expands, you will also help assess and develop potential markets, client groups and recruitment business units.

You will contribute to market mapping, target-account planning, new service propositions and decisions about where the business should invest its recruitment capability. For the right person, this creates an opportunity to influence not only how business is won, but where LeviCare grows next.

Interested?

If you are an experienced recruitment professional who enjoys winning business, developing valuable accounts and creating opportunities for others to deliver, we would be pleased to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in the commercial growth of a specialist recruitment business, strengthening our client base, market presence and future business units.

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