Junior Business Development Manager

We’re IDHL.  

With over 20 years’ experience under our belt, we’d say we know a thing or two about all things digital.

Our portfolio of services span performance marketing, website development, eCommerce, and data intelligence. But we’re more than just a digital agency; we're our client's key partner in growth.

Joining our performance division, you’ll be part of a team of SEO experts and paid media trailblazers. Working across outreach, technical SEO, digital PR, social media and more – there’s not a part of performance marketing we don’t deliver.

Our superpower is helping ambitious brands accelerate their growth in the digital economy, and we work with some pretty cool clients like Costa, tombola, and Lights4fun.

But what’s in it for you?

Aside from working with some of the best in the business (there are nearly 400 of us across IDHL), we offer a variety of benefits all aimed at making your life that little bit sweeter:

• Performance-based bonus schemes
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and a birthday lie-in
• Two additional days for wellbeing and a volunteering day
• Additional annual leave purchase scheme or trade leave you don’t use for extra salary
• Hybrid working (a mix of office and home-based for many of our roles)
• Flexible working scheme
• Financial support from Salary Finance and Bippit
• Company pension scheme and health care cash plan
• Private health care dependent on length of service
• Clear training and progression programme
• Free mortgage advice from experts
• Regular company events and awards
• Employee perks portal
• Plus many more, visit our careers page for more details

Invested in your growth.

Personal and professional development are core to life at IDHL. Harnessing potential, we’ll endeavour to support your career aspirations with our training programmes and personalised development plans.

Inclusivity matters to us.

We want our workplace to reflect the diversity of the world we live in. At IDHL, we foster an inclusive environment where every team member feels heard, supported, and valued. We aim to attract, develop, and retain the very best people irrespective of background, beliefs, or personal characteristics.

We are on the lookout for a talented and self-motivated Junior Business Development Manager to join our team, working to find and close new opportunities as well as handling inbound leads and enquiries across our digital marketing products and services. 

•      Negotiation and responsibility for the generation and closure of new business opportunities to meet sales targets
•      Growing sales pipeline and making cold calls to secure new sales opportunities
•      Working closely with New Business Director & Commercial Director on face to face client meetings, answering client queries and providing relevant information to prospects
•      Work closely with the Client Services team in order to provide handovers to new clients and ensure they transition well into the agency
•      Maintaining a full understanding of company processes, policies, guidelines and contractual obligations and ensuring these are consistently followed
•      Keeping up to date with industry and company trends and developments

 What we’d like you to bring to the role:

•      Considerable B2B sales experience
•      Ideally experience of SEO or PPC sales
•      Ideally Digital Agency experience
•      Demonstrable sales record
•      Commercial awareness, with an ability to maximize opportunities
•      Excellent communication and negotiation skills
•      High standard of written English and presentation skills
•      Ability to manage workload and priorities
•      Ability to deal with and influence senior decision makers
•      Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint