Business Development Executive

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity? If you are ambitious, target driven, passionate about attention to detail and confident in speaking to clients then keep reading!

We’re excited to be recruiting for our Business Development team. This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting, fast-moving team that combines relationships, sector knowledge and commercial acumen in an environment that offers you the chance to thrive and develop your career.  

As a Business Development Executive you will be a key member of the team and at the forefront of our business growth. You will lead on the three key workstreams below, to ensure we deliver the best of our business to our future clients.

• Client Liaison – You’ll act as the first point of contact for Clients, where you’ll introduce Fresh and understand the potential for working in partnership.
• Bid Preparation - Preparing, writing, and submitting full tender proposals which will include liaising and working with our business analysts on the pricing, as well as various teams across the business to ensure our bid submissions are of excellent quality.
• Market research – This will include industry research, analysing existing and new capital as well as competitors, and generating this data to inform the pipeline.

The role will offer flexibility to work from home 2 days a week with the remainder of time being spent working with the Business Development team in our London office on Soho Square.

About you:

This is a client facing role, so the ability to communicate effectively and adapt your style dependent on your audience is essential. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, be self-motivated and have a methodical and logical approach to your work.

It’s important that you have a good understanding of the bid process and have experience of preparing proposals / pitches with knowledge of the PBSA and / or BTR sector.

The Business Development team are a fast moving, dynamic team so you’ll need a high attention to detail and accuracy and be able to organise and prioritise your workload effectively when managing multiple tasks with competing deadlines.

Fresh can offer a clear plan for the right person to develop in this role and within Fresh - so if you’re ambitious with a passion to succeed, apply today.

Why work for Fresh?

We have a dedicated Training team to assist with your job training, and an in-house Learning & Development team to support you with personal and professional development including vocational qualifications as well as a health cash plan, life insurance and exclusive shopping discounts.

If believe you can make a difference and strive to join a rapidly growing company, with the ability to influence performance and process, we’d love to hear from you! 

About Fresh

Part of the Watkin Jones Group, Fresh are a multi award-winning student accommodation provider with over 19,000 beds in our portfolio across the UK & Ireland.  Fresh can offer you an exciting, collaborative, people-first environment where you can build your own career in a fast-growing industry. We create great places to live, built on the simple principle that the people around you can make a huge difference to your way of life. If you’re a people person who loves working collaboratively and is great at making things happen, then you’ll fit right in!