KareHero Looking for Business Development Manager at London, England, United Kingdom Full Time

Are you looking for the opportunity to work at a growing startup that does meaningful work? If so, we might be right for you! We are KareHero https://www.karehero.com/ – an energetic startup whose mission is to empower one million working adults to successfully juggle work and caring responsibilities for their elderly loved one.

We help families get their time back from the burden of understanding, finding and funding care.

At KareHero, you’ll be joining a passionate bunch of folk who are committed to tackling one of the biggest problems of our time – and having some fun along the way!

We are a remote first company, primarily working from home, with occasional travel for group / collaborative work required. Our team is currently based across various parts of the UK. We are looking for applicants within the UK only at this time preferably in the London, Manchester or Edinburgh areas.

This is a commission based role, with great career progression opportunities

What the Job Involves :

• 70% outbound sales, 20% preparing presentations and working with the team, 10% feeding back insights, trends and supporting product and marketing strategies.
• Explore new opportunities, gather data to draw insights and make recommendations. There’s a world of opportunity and we need someone who can navigate it in an intelligent way
• Reach out to new contacts and forge meaningful B2B relationships
• Understand and own elements of the market development approach, becoming a real ‘knowledge guru’ internally
• Actively monitor and share external factors that impact market development, to keep the team agile and responsive
• Prepare and deliver killer presentations to inspire people towards our vision for market development

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in a software B2B or care industry related sales role. This role involves remotely selling our marketplace to elderly care providers
• You’re a self starter who can manage your own workload and prioritise
• Proven track record of achieving and exceeding targets including outbound sales activity
• Experience of using Linkedin to generate and cultivate prospects
• You’re a self starter who can manage your own workload and prioritise
• Proven track record of achieving and exceeding targets including outbound sales activity
• Experience of using Linkedin to generate and cultivate prospects
• You’re willing to ‘go with the flow’. This is a new role, you need to be agile
• Roll up your sleeves. Be prepared to show a broad range of skills and work in an agile way

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays a year, plus your birthday day off. Up to 7 days paid carer leave per year to care for a loved one
• Enhanced pension scheme with 3% employer contribution (after a successful probation period)
• Flexibility – we work from home, helping you fit your work around your life
• Well-being benefits under YuLife, an award-winning well-being benefits provider,
• EMI shares
• The best IT equipment for the job – we know how important it is to have the right set-up
• Working with world-class tech and business operators who are also experienced, career mentors

Company values

• Caring: We are Family Caregivers building a company for family caregivers. We are here to co-create our company with empathy for each other, for the good of our mission. We are inclusive and care about our work and each other. We all understand that we will get there quicker together and better if we are happy
• Mission-Driven: If it doesn’t help caregivers, we don’t do it
• Outcome-Focused: We are always thinking, ‘How does this help our mission and our company objectives?’ We prefer outcomes over output
• Customer-Centric: We share the responsibility of building and maintaining an understanding of caregiver needs, pains, and what they need to get done. We always start with the caregiver
• Practical: We love to dream, to think, to ideate, but what we love most of all is seeing measurable positive impacts for working caregivers

Want to join us on the journey?

To be part of things at KareHero please submit your CV, your salary expectations, confirmation of your right to work in the UK and a cover note explaining why you’re the best fit for this role. Don’t forget the cover letter – it’s the best way we have to get to know you!

Our recruitment process for this role will involve:

• A competency based interview
• Followed by a meet with one of the founders of our business

All interview stages can be facilitated remotely.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and perspectives and we can offer interviews at times that suit you if you have caring responsibilities, or find it hard to take time off work. If you consider yourself to be disabled under the Equality Act 2010 and would like to discuss reasonable adjustments for any part of the interview process then please simply flag this within your application.