Sales & Business Development Assistant

Ref: 71

Role: Sales & Business Development Assistant

Salary: £28,000 plus uncapped commission

Location: Rotherham

Hours: Monday to Friday, Fully Office-Based

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary plus uncapped bonus-accelerators for exceeding target
• Clear progression path to Senior BDM or Account Manager
• Training on courses and products; CPD and certifications supported
• Flexible working with supportive, high-energy team culture
• 28 days’ holiday including bank holidays
• Company pension

The role:

Our client is a UK leader in drone training, inspection and education. We help organisations adopt RPAS(Drones) safely and profitably, and we run industry-recognised regulated training programmes for new and experienced operators.

You will drive learner recruitment for our training programmes and support platform and services sales across key sectors. Working closely with the Sales Director and the training team, you will turn warm interest into enrolled learners and qualified opportunities, then help progress those opportunities through to close.

Responsibilities:

• Manage inbound enquiries, qualifying prospects and converting them to course enrolments
• Nurture leads via phone, email, LinkedIn and webinars
• Coordinate with the training team to schedule cohorts and maintain high fill rates
• Track funnels and report weekly on enquiries, conversions and revenue
• Generate and develop opportunities for training platform and inspection services
• Run discovery calls, product walk-throughs and tailored proposals
• Support bids and frameworks with sector-specific collateral and case studies
• Maintain accurate CRM hygiene and forecasts
• Map target accounts in priority sectors (education, insurance, construction, engineering, public sector)
• Represent the company at events, demos and webinars
• Feed market insight back into campaigns, messaging and offers

The Successful Candidate:

• Confident communicator who enjoys the phone and can run crisp discovery calls
• Strong organisation, follow-through, and CRM discipline (experience with Microsoft 365/Teams and Zoho is a plus)
• Comfort with targets and a performance mindset- you like winning and you like being paid for it
• Desirable: knowledge of drone operations, CAA training pathways.