Senior Business Development Manager – Vendor – Hard Assets & Renewables – 2870

Salary range £80,000 to £100,000 plus bonus of up to 40% of salary plus all usual large company benefits.

Our client a leading asset financier with whom we have placed staff over the last 10 years in origination roles to as senior as Head of Sales plus also leadership roles in credit and collections are seeking to develop their presence in the vendor finance sector.

They are seeking a senior business developer to work with their senior leadership team to identify , prospect and win new name vendor programmes in both traditional hard assets and also the renewables sector.

Targets are realistic and achievable both in terms of volume and margin requirements and our client has a strong proposition for vendors that includes digital documentation , automated underwriting and the ability to fund business from very low values through to £MM+ transactions.

We will be happy to volume and margin targets and expand upon our clients service capabilities with suitably qualified applicants.

Candidate Profile

To apply for this role you must have a strong background of demonstrable success in new business development of hard asset and or renewables vendor programmes.

You may work for a bank asset financier or an independent or a major lease broker. If you work for a captive lessor we would also be interested in talking with you particularly if you can evidence success winning new business beyond the financing only of your own companies assets.

To succeed in this role you will need to be a driven and tenacious individual who is comfortable canvassing for new business at C level with major vendors.

You will need to demonstrate the influencing skills to get your vendors SLT to use finance early and pro-actively this will involve building relations across not just sales leaders but with CEO down buy in.

You will need a combination of gravitas, presence , resilience , persistence and a thick skin to be able to put up with rejection , because you can expect to get a lot of rejection.

Your ability to think and act creatively when faced with adversity and your resilience will set you apart from other and lead to your success.

If you feel you have the above skills and experience we would be pleased to talk with you.

Contact: Please send your CV firstly to Sean Toms at: sean_toms@robinson-toms.com and then call me on + 44 ( 0 ) 1691 670466 for a confidential discussion.