Sales Manager Uk Visa Sponsorship Available

Job Description

About your new role.

Our market-leading Employment, Pensions, and Immigration team advises firms throughout the UK on all elements of employment, pension, and immigration legislation. Our clientele include some of the UK’s largest and most well-known enterprises. We feel that the calibre of our clients and the strength of our relationships with them speak volumes about the kind of service we give.

We are now looking for a Sales Manager to join the HR Rely team.

This post will be directly related to HR Rely, our flagship product that offers fixed-fee employment, HR, and advice services to organisations.

Primary objectives

• To assist the New Business Development Lead and Client Relationship Officers in leading the sales operations for Weightmans HR Rely (and additional products as needed).
• Provide practical assistance to the New Business Development Lead and HR Rely Client Relationship Officers (and other client-facing fee earners) to ensure that critical business development opportunities and targets are realised.
• Prospect and create new business prospects, whether from new targets in existing industries, new market sectors, or from Weightmans’ current client base.
• Reporting to the New Business Development Lead.

Key responsibilities.

• Generating new business sales leads with both target and existing clients, working closely with Client Relationship Owners, the Head of Sales Enablement, and members of the New Business team as necessary.

• Meeting potential purchasers of legal products and services in Weightmans’ offices, at their location, at events, or selling over the phone and/or remotely.

• Manage the sales pipeline for new, current, and existing business prospects within HR. Rely on and monitor the effectiveness of all associated sales activities.

• Collaborate with the New Business Development Lead and CROs to generate profitable new business income, while capturing and recording learnings from sales activities and projects to improve future activities.

• Work on behalf of the firm to create ties with external organisations that are possible introducers or referrers of clients.

• Identifying development potential in market sectors or geographical locations.

This list is not exhaustive, and you will have additional activities and obligations that fall within the scope of the function.

About You

Key Skills and Experience

• Significant experience selling in a business-to-business services setting, ideally involving exposure to and market knowledge of the professional services area.

• A proven track record of prospecting and creating new business, coupled with a history of closing deals.

• Motivated, self-starter with a successful sales record.

• Strong questioning and active listening abilities to develop understanding of the clients’ demands.

• Proven ability to instantly establish rapport and trust.

• Excellent negotiating abilities mixed with a highly commercial attitude

• Strong project and time management abilities, as well as organisational capabilities.

• Confident, assertive, and resilient.

• A self-starter who can work alone and is aggressive in producing ideas and solutions.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities, both written and oral.

• HR/Employment expertise is beneficial but not needed.

If you fulfil our requirements and believe this is a position where you can contribute excitement and a desire to learn, we look forward to receiving your application.

Why Work for Us?

Weightmans is a top 40 law company with offices around the UK. At the annual Britain’s Top Employers Awards 2023, we were named the leading legal employer and the tenth overall employer, and we earned record Chambers UK rankings.

We are pleased to be a certified living wage employer.

Click here to learn more about industry recognition for excellence through our accomplishments, honours, and accreditations.

The independent research revealed that “Weightmans provides great employee conditions, fosters and develops talent throughout all levels of the business.”

We are sincerely committed to building an egalitarian and diverse culture in which everyone in the firm is appreciated and recognised on merit for their contributions.

We welcome submissions from persons of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and disabilities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments at any point during the application process.

Feel free to provide your preferred pronouns in your application.

Weightmans is a company that values its employees.

In addition to being extremely proud of the job we do for our customers and the culture we foster for our employees, we give a wide range of benefits, including:

• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (prorated for part-time)
• Agile/working from home, includes the provision of home office equipment.
• Healthcare coverage / Medicash
• Pension plan
• Life insurance 4 times salary
• Interest-Free Travel Loan Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme includes psychotherapy, legal, and consumer advising services.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Discounted Dental Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Offers and savings.
• Excellent reward and recognition plan.

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Please take note.

• Any references to experience or PQE in our advertisements or job descriptions should be taken as a guideline only. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and levels of expertise who can demonstrate that they meet the requirements of the position.

• The successful candidate appointed to this position will be subject to our usual background check process, and any offer of employment is contingent on the successful completion of such checks. Further information can be received via the Recruitment team.

• We are receptive to part-time/job-sharing applications.

Recruitment agencies (PSL or non-PSL)

Weightmans maintains a stringent ‘preferred supplier list’ (PSL) and is dedicated to working closely with the recruitment agencies on that list. Weightmans does not accept speculative or unsolicited CVs, profiles, or any introductions from either PSL or non-PSL agencies. If a PSL or non-PSL agency chooses to submit a speculative or unsolicited CV, profile, or introduction without prior instruction from a member of Weightmans’ recruitment team, we reserve the right to treat the introduction as a gift and contact the candidate directly without accepting or entering into the agency’s terms, nor will we be liable for a recruitment fee.

Eligibility to work in the UK

Eligibility to work in the UK will be checked during the final phases of the selection process. Before starting work, all candidates must either have the right to work in the UK or meet the Home Office’s visa sponsorship standards. Candidates who need sponsorship should assess the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying.