New Business Development Manager

New Business Development Manager

Location:

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

Food Alert is one of the UK's leading food safety and health & safety consultancies, trusted by major names in hospitality and food service. It is part of The Citation Group, a leading provider of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law, and ISO services.

Regular travel to either the Food Alert office in London or Citation Group's Head Office in Wilmslow will be required to support collaboration, leadership activities and business needs.

• Generate your own pipeline through outbound activity, networking, referrals and prospecting
• Identify and engage decision‑makers across leisure, stadiums, travel & transport, and food manufacturing
• Create opportunities where no existing relationship exists
• Conduct high‑quality discovery conversations
• Build commercial urgency and move prospects through the sales cycle
• Manage opportunities from first contact through to close
• Consistently deliver against pipeline, activity and revenue targets
• Develop deep sector knowledge to become a trusted adviser rather than just another salesperson

• Proven new business sales professionals
• Strong track record in B2B sales
• Demonstrable success in self‑generated business development
• Experience building and converting your own pipeline
• Consistent over performance against sales targets
• Ability to influence senior decision‑makers
• High resilience, pace and commercial curiosity
• Particular interest in candidates who have sold into leisure, hospitality, stadiums & large venues, travel & transport, or food manufacturing

• Tailored on‑the‑job training, mentoring and progression support
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays + 3 “gift days” over the festive period
• Additional leave benefits (e.g., marriage week, new grandparent leave)
• Enhanced sick pay and life insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Healthcare cash plan including discounted gym membership
• Referral bonuses, incentive vouchers and team socials