Senior Business Development Manager (12 Month Contract)

The Opportunity

At DoneDeal Cars we are Ireland's number one car marketplace, with over 90% of Irish dealerships advertising on our platform. Dealers in our 2025 Dealer Survey voted us the number one place to sell cars — for leads, ease of use, ad-boosting tools, and customer service. We are looking for an experienced Field Sales professional to provide maternity cover for one of our established Field Sales Managers.

This is the kind of role that suits someone with strong commercial experience who wants to step into a high-quality book of accounts, deliver in a defined window, and make a real impact at a market-leading company. It is also a chance to demonstrate yourself in a business that is growing — with the potential for permanent opportunities to emerge as the team expands.

The Patch

You will inherit a portfolio of approximately 120 dealer accounts in an established Field Sales territory. Handover will include in-person introductions to top accounts, structured Account Reviews completed jointly with the existing Field Sales Manager before her leave begins, and full briefing on ongoing campaigns, commitments, and live opportunities.

What will I be doing

Hold the Patch

• Take ownership of approximately 120 dealer accounts during the maternity leave period.

• Maintain the established Account Review cadence 

• Manage handover from the returning manager at end of contract — clean notes, clear status, no surprises.

Deliver Commercial Performance

• Deliver against monthly and quarterly revenue targets through package upgrades, feature adoption, and the September/October upsell cycle.

Communicate Value

• Translate platform performance data — leads delivered, conversion, ROI — into commercial conversations dealers can act on.

• Make our value visible in every meeting through performance data, peer benchmarking and feature adoption insights.

• Anchor every Account Review in evidence, not relationship alone.

What skills and experience do I need

• 3+ years of B2B sales experience, ideally with field-based account management exposure. Automotive or digital media background is a strong advantage but not essential.

• Track record of managing dealer or customer portfolios with a structured cadence of meetings, reviews and pipeline activity.

• Comfortable being dropped into an existing book — able to build trust with established customers quickly and credibly.

• Full clean Irish driving licence required. Two to three days per week visiting dealers across the patch is standard.

• Data-confident. Comfortable using performance data, ROI numbers and benchmarking to drive commercial conversations.

• Self-organised. Comfortable with CRM (Salesforce experience an advantage) and able to keep a clean pipeline without being chased.

• Resilient and credible. Able to handle price objections and competitive pressure with confidence.

• Available immediately or with short notice. We need someone in seat in time to complete handover before the maternity leave begins.

Why Take a Fixed-Term Role with Us

• Real responsibility from day one. You will own a high-quality portfolio with established relationships and clear targets.

• Market-leading platform. Over 90% market share. Dealers want to talk to you.

• Visibility. A maternity cover role is not a hidden one. You will be working alongside our permanent team and represented at industry events, leadership reviews and strategic conversations.

• Hybrid and remote-first. Field-based with regular in-person dealer time, team days, training and key meetings at our Dublin HQ.
  

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.

• 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..

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.