Business Development Administrator
Membership Body
Hybrid working
Basic Salary £34,000
12 Months FTC
Start ASAP
Our client a well-recognised professional membership body is currently recruiting for a Business Development Administrator.
If you have strong administration skills and customer services skills and have worked for a trade association, professional body, membership body, charity, not for profit organisation we would love to hear from you.
Role Purpose
Researching, identifying and validating prospective Member businesses, and assisting with new applicant administration. The main aims are to increase volume and quality of warm leads assigned to the Business Development team and improve recruitment rates.
Main Duties
• Screen inbound sales enquiries to establish if they meet the membership criteria
• Research potential new Member targets and identify appropriate contacts within these businesses through online research and cold calling
• Assist in lead management of existing prospects
• Monitor application progress, and chase outstanding information and documentation
• Provide weekly and monthly sales reports and monitor onboarding rates for new Members
• Attend and represent the organisations at local and national exhibitions and events and assist with other tasks as required
Person Specification
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and ready to get stuck in
• Previous experience of working in a sales/customer/member focused environment
• Excellent administrative and organisation skills, time management
• Excellent at communicating - written, face to face and on the phone
• Ability to work efficiently on a variety of digital platforms including Salesforce and learn new software packages quickly
• Be fully conversant with the MS Office suite of products especially PowerPoint and Excel, including working with formulas
• Conversant with social media platforms both for communication and for monitoring
• Maintain a professional and personable attitude when communicating with colleagues, members and other stakeholders
To apply to this Business Development Administrator role please send your CV.
Due to the volume of applications we are only able to contact successful applicants. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 10 working days please deem your application as unsuccessful on this occasion.
Membership Bespoke is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role. Membership Bespoke positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Membership Bespoke is the most experienced membership-focused recruitment firm in the UK, with 10+ years of experience delivering tailored permanent, temporary, interim, and Executive Search recruitment solutions to Trade Associations, Regulatory Bodies, Political Parties, and Professional Bodies.