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Business Development Manager – Manchester / hybrid – Social Media / Content / Influencer / Partnerships
A scale-up social media & content are looking for someone to take ownership of all their business development & new business efforts.
Currently all new business is manged by the co-founders, as the business is growing, they need a specialist to come in so that they can shift focus to other areas. Reporting into them, they’ll still have inputs in strategy and opportunities, but they need someone with autonomy and an understanding of the industry.
Experience needed:
- Either prior experience working within a marketing / social media / content agency, or working within social publishing business.
- The ability to identify opportunities for partnerships, targeted outreach and close an introduction.
- Build and manage a pipeline.
- Self starter, comfortable managing your own time and working in a scale-up.
Role overview:
- Outreach via LinkedIn, email, CRM, phone to prospects.
- Events and networking.
- Competitor research.
- Lead generation.
- Working with founders to plan pitches and proposals.
- Work with internal social media & content teams to produce showcases for the agencies own socials and build brand awareness.
The agency is nearing 3 years old and produces creative and unique social media and content campaigns for a mixture of household names and challenger brands. They do a mixture of social media management, social strategy, UGC, Influencer marketing & partnerships, content creation. Mainly across TikTok and Instagram.
They’re based in Manchester, happy to consider someone from further afield as they are often around the Manchester, London and Europe on shoot. UK based.
As it is a new role they are open to package. Salary £40-70K + commission.
Business Development Manager – Manchester / hybrid – Social Media / Content / Influencer / Partnerships