Business Development Manager

Job Description

We are seeking an inspirational Business Development Manager to lead our business development and sales activity allowing us to diversify our clients; grow our income streams; and create more social impact.

Magpie is an award-winning creative behaviour change agency with a mission to create healthier and happier communities; one person, one campaign at a time. We choose to work with organisations that want to deliver social good and leave a lasting positive impact.

This influential new role will handle the full sales lead process from identifying potential markets and clients, to nurturing leads and then (with the support of the wider team) developing proposals / pitching to clients and closing the deal.

To succeed in this role, you will be passionate about creating healthier and happier communities and creating lasting positive social impact.

You will have proven success in a business development environment achieving KPIs, business to business sales targets and developing new business relationships in health; public sector; third sector; or with brands that are focused on social good.

Your exceptional communication skills will make the complex appear simple, creating clear compelling pitches.

You will have significant experience in relationship management, with the ability to exercise sound judgement, sensitivity and political awareness when working with multiple stakeholders. An understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the public, health or third sector will be particularly beneficial.

Your self-motivation and confidence will give you the ability to hit the ground running, embrace challenges and act on your own initiative.

More importantly that all of this you will be driven by purpose with a true hunger to build legacies from our campaigns.

Magpie is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an employer where we can ALL be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Life at Magpie

At Magpie you won’t find big egos, just big ambitions for the world we live in. We’re a friendly and talented team, dedicated to making positive change. Here are some of the things you can expect from joining us...

Profit share – Our employees each get a share of our profits. Every year we distribute a profit share. The more impact we make, the more we are rewarded.

Investment in you – We invest significantly on training, development, and rewards.We run our own University of Magpie to develop your specialist creative behaviour change skills with internal and external experts. Every team member has a professional development plan which roadmaps their progression and helps them achieve their personal goals.

Flexible working – A good work-life balance is important, we are advocates of flexible working, and all our work is cloud-based for effective remote working. We have a blended approach to working at home, in our studio at Munro House and out in the communities where our campaigns need us.

Birthday off work – Because no one should have to work on their birthday! If your birthday falls on a non-working day, you get the next working day off.

Supporting causes – We featured in Just Giving’s top 5% of fundraisers. We’re proud to have supported some great projects and causes over the years and even offer our team a day of paid volunteering a year. All our team get the gift of giving for their birthday and we donate to each person's favourite charity or cause as a birthday treat.

Health and wellbeing ambassadors – Our in-house ambassadors gain and provide access to training, signpost to support and listen to you so we can improve our working culture.

Staff activities and socials – From canal boat trips to neon light making classes, we look for regular opportunities to get social together as a team.

Vision days – We host reflection and planning days where the whole team inputs into our future plans. In 2022 this was an overnight festival style event we call ‘GoodStock’.

Christmas and New Year shut down – We close down and rest between every Christmas and New Year with time off in addition to bookable annual leave.

Our culture – We always do what it takes to achieve impact whilst protecting each other’s wellbeing. We are stimulated and challenged whilst always feeling supported.

Enhanced pension scheme – All team members receive above statutory pension employer contribution.

Dog friendly office - We welcome well behaved dogs into our studio space!

To apply, send a cover letter of no more than 500 words explaining what you’d bring to the role, along with your CV to impact@wearemagpie.com title your email ‘Business Development Manager’, or click the link below to apply via our website.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Tom Salmon (Director of Campaigns) tom@wearemagpie.com

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