New Business Sales Executive - Public Sector

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow , and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

Step into the role of New Business Sales Executive at MHR, where you’ll take ownership of driving new business revenue and creating opportunities across the Payroll and HR market. You’ll build and manage your own pipeline, develop trusted relationships with prospective customers and lead consultative, value-based sales conversations from opportunity through to close.

You’ll identify customer challenges, shape compelling solutions and position MHR as a trusted partner. This is a role for someone who is commercially driven, proactive and motivated by turning opportunities into successful outcomes.

You’ll be part of a collaborative and ambitious sales team, working closely with colleagues and technical experts to understand customer needs and deliver tailored solutions. You’ll have access to the tools, product knowledge and support needed to build a strong pipeline and progress opportunities effectively.

Using MHR’s CRM and sales processes, you’ll keep your pipeline, forecasts and customer information accurate and up to date, while sharing insight with the wider team on market trends, competitive activity and emerging opportunities.

Your impact will be measured by the new business you create and the revenue you deliver. You’ll take ownership of achieving your sales targets, maintaining sufficient pipeline coverage and accurately forecasting performance.

Through proactive prospecting, consultative selling and strong relationship management, you’ll identify new opportunities, influence decision-makers and convert prospects into customers. Your understanding of the Payroll and HR landscape will help you anticipate customer challenges, demonstrate the value of MHR’s solutions and contribute directly to our continued growth.

You’ll also help strengthen MHR’s position in the market by sharing competitor insight, maintaining high-quality sales standards and representing the business professionally at every stage of the customer journey. Experience with in Education, Local Authority, Blue Light or Not-for-Profit (NFP) organisations would be advantageous, but is not essential.

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for…