Business Development Executive

Job description / Role

Business Development Executive - British Recruitment & Headhunting Company

First Resort Global Recruitment is a global leading Executive level Recruitment company who specialise in placing management level professionals in jobs in the Middle East.

We have been established for almost 10 years and are an expanding company with an office in Dubai with 40 staff and expanding. We are the Middle Eastern arm of a huge British Recruitment company and run a professional and fun office covering the GCC region. We work with global leading companies and we are looking for a positive, bright and passionate person to join our team as an International Business Development Executive. You will be working with a proactive team who will help with your success and development, so you can gain great and fun experience.

It is a very fast paced role where you will be very busy, so being organized, with excellent computer skills and a positive, happy and fun attitude will be essential.

We aim for our team to be young, fun, focused, upbeat, determined and hard working. A positive, motivated and happy attitude is absolutely essential.

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
- Working closely with the Business Development Manager to learn the skills required for good Sales and GCC BD
- Achieving set targets
- Calling candidates and asking them to reply to emails for live job vacancies
- Increase the Company's presence within the Middle East region
- Maintain First Resort Recruitment’s position as a professional, reputable and leading executive recruitment company
- To identify, contact and develop relationships with potential new clients
- Development of strategic relationships
- Generate new and relevant leads
- Deliver excellent customer satisfaction
- Negotiate with clients to secure new business
- Provide timely feedback to senior management regarding personal performance
- To achieve personal targets & objectives for new business & activity
- Networking with new contacts to develop and build on relationships
- Demonstrating strong client relationship development activity
- Lead generation, referencing, chasing missed deals and gathering market information
- Booking in meetings for the BDM and company GM after identifying hot leads
- Working closely with the team on targeted projects

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
- Results oriented – for achievement of individual Sales Targets
- New customer development
- Remaining professional and achieve high quantity of calls at a high quality level
- Middle East region market penetration and development
- Learning all skills required to be successful in this position
- Positive, happy and confident attitude with genuine passion for phone sales

Requirements

The role would suit someone who has good initial experience within Business to Business Sales and Negotiating/ Telesales. You will work closely with the Business Development Manager to bring on new clients by using your excellent sales & business development skills that would be developed during your time with us.

Candidates must be computer literate, with strong Outlook & Excel skills, strong and clear English speaking skills, have a very good telephone manner and have a hunger to learn and grow in your career… and to genuinely LOVE sales!

If you know that you have what it takes to be successful in Business Development Sales, please do not hesitate and apply immediately. You should have passion to learn, enthusiasm to achieve great results and be a fun, upbeat team player ready to SMASH the phone and get RESULTS!!

About the Company

First Resort Global Recruitment delivers Management & Executive Level recruitment & headhunting to selected companies across the Middle East.

First Resort Global Recruitment combines Arabic and Western Recruiters and Business experts from around the world. Our team travel extensively throughout the Middle East making us very well connected to the very best candidates currently based in the region. In addition, everyone employed by First Resort has lived and worked in various locations internationally so we can offer first hand advice to our candidates about relocating if our clients require global experts. This means we always know how to find the highest calibre of candidates that match our clients needs; whatever the nationality, wherever the location and whatever expertise the specific role and company requires.

The result is a complementary vision to consistently fulfill the requirements for our selected clients across the Middle East.

First Resort Global Recruitment work across every industry sector at Management level and above including: - Automotive, Transport and Heavy Construction Equipment - Retail, Fashion, Supermarkets, Furniture, Luxury Jewelry and Wholesale - FMCG, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage - Hospitality, Food Services, Restaurants and Luxury Resorts - Property Development and Real Estate - Insurance, Finance, Banking, Financial Services, Audit & Consulting Firms - Media, Marketing, Music Industry & Entertainment - Medical, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Hospitals and more...

In addition to the above industries, we also have the First Resort Technical Recruitment division. This specialist division is run by technical industry experts with over 20 years of Recruitment experience purely focused within this sector to best serve our clients need within Permanent & Contract roles in: - Oil & Gas, Petroleum, Energy, Power, Utilities, Water & Wastewater, EPC, Renewables - Construction & Engineering - Industrial, Mass Production, Heavy Construction Equipment - Logistics, Supply Chain, Marine Shipping, Haulage, Freight and Transportation