Business Development Manager – Specialist Markets

Are you ready to make an impact and be at the forefront of a global strategic focus? LHH is driving growth in the SME market, and we’re looking for a dynamic and ambitious Business Development Manager to take on this challenge. In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to acquire and expand UK SME accounts, unlocking growth within your assigned territory. This is your opportunity to be part of an innovative, high-energy team shaping the future of work and career development for SMEs, focusing on offering tailored product solutions that create meaningful value for our clients while contributing directly to our ambitious growth targets.

More than just a sales role, this is a chance to help SMEs thrive while advancing your own career in an organisation where your success is celebrated. If you’re passionate about driving growth, building meaningful client relationships, and making an impact, we want to hear from you!

Drive Results: Own the revenue goals for your territory, delivering against ambitious growth targets through strategic, solution-based selling.

Lead the Charge: Follow up on marketing-assigned leads while proactively generating demand, identifying new opportunities, and tailoring solutions to meet client needs.

Strategic Partner: Build meaningful relationships with new clients, using a consultative approach to understand their challenges and provide customised solutions. Maintain accurate forecasting and a strong, visible pipeline.

Collaborate to Win: Work seamlessly with Account Managers, support functions, and other Adecco Group verticals to deliver exceptional client experiences, ensuring smooth delivery while fostering retention and expansion opportunities.

Inspire the Team: Be a role model and champion of our ‘One LHH’ culture, uniting efforts across the UK team and sharing best practices in solution selling.

Here’s What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Results-Driven: A strong track record of exceeding sales targets and delivering exceptional results.

Self-Starter: A motivated, adaptable individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic.

Relationship Builder: Proven experience in building, developing, and converting customer relationships and contracts into long-term partnerships.

Solution-Oriented: Comfortable making outbound calls, working with partners, generating interest, and aligning LHH’s solutions with client needs.

Resilient Problem Solver: A relentless drive for “yes,” viewing challenges as opportunities to create impact and make a difference.

Tenacious and Energetic: A high activity level and unwavering determination to achieve goals.

Passion for Purpose: Deeply aligned with our mission of making a difference in the world of work and career development.

Effective Communicator: Exceptional verbal and written communication, listening, and negotiation skills.

Organised and Collaborative: Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to work independently while contributing to a high-performing team.

Continuous Improver: Committed to sharing best practices, refining processes, and providing consistent reporting to leadership.

Relevant Experience (Desirable): Background in staffing, HR consulting, or training and development is a plus.

Reporting directly to the UK Specialist Markets Sales Director, you will collaborate closely with the wider sales team, leveraging the expertise of LHH’s business and support functions. This role thrives on partnership, aligning with internal teams and stakeholders to deliver exceptional results and drive growth in the SME market.

About LHH

The world of work is changing fast.Profound changes at profound speed.

But whereas many see change as an existential threat,a select few see it as an opportunity to make a difference.An opportunity to deliver lifelong employability to a generation of talent in transition.An opportunity to develop leaders, recognizing the capabilities needed for today,while nurturing the expertise needed for the future.And an opportunity to look beyond what’s right for a company, to what’s right for society as a whole.

And out of the few that see these opportunities, there are even fewer placed to actually deliver them.

At Lee Hecht Harrison, we have the scale, the expertise and the insight, not only to identify these opportunities, but to realize them.

Transforming workforces though our consultative approach. Developing future skills, flexibility and foresight, delivered with a distinctly human heart.

We’re obsessively passionateand quantifiably effective.Making a difference to everyone we work with and for. And delivering it on a global scale.

Because opportunities aren’t there to be observed.They’re there to be taken.

This is LHH.

This is Opportunity, delivered.

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LHH is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protectedveterans’status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For additional information on our Diversity and Inclusion policy, please consult the following link:  https://www.lhh.com/us/en/diversity-and-inclusion