Recruitment Business Development Executive

About the role

We are looking for a proactive, hunter‑style Business Development Executive to generate new recruitment opportunities within the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors. The focus is on cold outreach, winning new clients, and securing qualified job briefs, with occasional candidate‑resourcing duties later on.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and approach prospective clients across UK engineering and manufacturing.
• Conduct high‑volume telephone‑based business‑development activity.
• Open new client accounts and develop geographical or sector‑based territories.
• Engage hiring managers and senior decision‑makers to qualify recruitment requirements.
• Secure detailed, workable job briefs and build relationships from the first cold contact.
• Maintain consistent follow‑up via telephone, email, and LinkedIn.
• Develop and manage a pipeline of prospective and active clients.
• Record activity and keep accurate CRM data.
• Work towards revenue, client‑acquisition, and job‑generation targets.

Required profile

• Highly motivated by financial success and comfortable with rejection.
• Strong phone‑first approach and tenacious sales mindset.
• Ability to build a recruitment desk or target market from scratch.
• Self‑motivated, independent, and able to work from home during UK business hours.

Required skills

• SourceWhale outreach platform
• Lusha contact enrichment tool
• Market Mapper for market identification
• Ringover telephone system with call transcription
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator

What we offer

• Access to industry‑leading outreach and market‑mapping tools.
• Supportive remote work environment.
• Opportunity to build a new business pipeline in a high‑growth sector.