Business Development Executive

Scotland, United Kingdom

2/12/2025

Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow

About The Role

Are you a proactive and motivated sales professional with a keen interest in networking, lead generation, relationship building, and sales? We are continuously seeking enthusiastic and driven Sales Executives to join us in our mission to provide lightning-fast fibre connectivity!

Our Business Development teams engage with sites directly and with property stakeholders to uncover new business development opportunities so that Hyperoptic can be delivered to more businesses within the area. Success is measured by the number of wayleaves you secure as well as Identifying and selling into new sales opportunities, resulting in increased connections and revenue and subsequently striving to achieve and surpass your units signed target!

What will you be doing?

• Identifying target sites and engaging directly with Property Stakeholders and Owners, Building Managers as well as residents of multi dwelling properties.
• Proactively building and managing a sales pipeline.
• Work closely with other divisions (including CS, BD, Finance, Marketing, Infrastructure) to secure and grow the client base and associated revenue.
• Consistently hitting sales targets set per quarter.
• Build and manage a network of relationships to ease new business development.
• Identify and leverage internal relationships.
• Communicating with all levels from Caretakers, Concierges, Property Manager, residents asscoiations, residents & freeholder
• Providing regular reporting on progress to management as required. Responsible for managing workflow and projects through our CRM.
• Establish and build good working relationships within internal stakeholders to aid successful deployment of sites.
• Coordinating functions to ensure single client facing interface (where necessary and desirable).
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Experience of working within a sales driven or target driven role, where you can demonstrate a consultative sales approach.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, via telephone, email, and face to face.
• An ability to work to tight deadlines with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Emerging knowledge of vertical market/sector
• Competent knowledge of sales process
• Excellent presentation skills
• Some prior telecommunications experience - Desirable
• Driving license and own transport
  
  

Why work for us?

We're in our customer's corner and our vision is to be the UK's most loved and desired broadband provider, that shows the way broadband is done! Awarded Broadband Provider of the Year 2023 Uswitch Telecoms Awards, as voted for by 20,000 customers, plus Fair Terms Gold Award 2023. We're also very proud to have been awarded Great Place to Work Certification (2022-23) and UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (2022)

Going beyond the expected

Whatever We're Doing – Whether We're Liaising With Property Professionals, Delivering Our Network, Or Installing In a Customer's Home, Going Beyond The Expected Is The Benchmark For Everything We Do. How We Work Is Shaped By Our Three Culture Principles

• We work smarter, together
• We stay focused
• We strive for excellence
  
  

S ome of our key Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days' paid holiday increasing each year, to a max of 35
• Extra days off for your birthday, moving home, wedding/civil partnership and to volunteer
• Private medical Insurance provided by AXA health
• Life assurance giving you cover of 4 times your base salary
• Partnership with the Kings Trust
• Our pension scheme matches your contributions up to 4%
• Retail offers — discounts from hundreds of recognisable brands
• Free Hyperoptic broadband if you live in a Hyperoptic area
• Enhanced pay for new parents
  
  

We're committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees. In fact, this is at the heart of our culture and values. We welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life.