Business Development Manager - Daft.ie

What’s the Opportunity

Daft.ie is Ireland’s largest property portal, with a mission to make buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

Due to our continued growth and success, we now have an opportunity for a hardworking Business Development Manager to grow revenue amongst a core client base and to win new estate agent business for our Property Sales Team. 

What will I be doing

As a Business Development Manager you will:

• Sell a range of advertising solutions to your client base of estate agents 

• Build and develop new and existing relationships with your clients across the country

• Handle the technical and account-related queries from the client base

• Handle advertising campaigns from sale to completion

• Work with clients and traffic management to improve campaign efficiency

• Meet and exceed sales targets

• Generate leads and opportunities through outbound, strategic and targeted prospecting

• Make strategic calls to grow business from new and established relationships

• Prospect into both cold accounts as well as into new groups, divisions, etc. of existing customers

What skills and experience do I need?

• At least 3 year’s sales experience in a cold calling sales environment

• Experience in advertising sales would be an advantage but not crucial

• Strong prospecting, cold calling and presentation skills

• Excellent communication and social skills, both verbal and written

• Experience of managing, developing and maintaining client relationships

• The ability to generate ideas to increase revenue

• Self-motivation and the ability to work on your own initiative

• Excellent time-management skills, with ability to prioritise

• The ability to work collaborate, and work as a team

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether in our centrally located office in Dublin or working from home, which is optional for all employees.

• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.

• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.

• Above all, your health and wellbeing are at the forefront of how we build the business. That means looking after you while you're here and later in life. So, you'll receive life insurance, fully-paid healthcare and a 5% contribution towards your pension.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.