Business Development Academy (Entry Level) March 2025 - Permanent

We exist to help our clients reach their full potential, by applying our common sense, business experience and passion for technology. 

Delaware is a global consultancy that partners with leading technology providers such as SAP to which we are a Platium Partner, and Microsoft, as well as many others, to deliver advanced digital solutions. We develop, innovate and implement technology transformations guiding our clients towards an intelligent future. 

Everyone at Delaware is a steward of the business. We are building for the future and for those that succeed us, and we take responsibility for our relationship with the social and ecological environment. 

• Strategic Lead Generation: Utilising a mixture of outbound calling, emailing follow up and other mechanisms, and supported by marketing and other business functions, organize meetings between prospective customers and the delaware sales team.
• Qualification: Conduct baseline research within target accounts to identify key contacts and critical account information. Qualify prospective customer accounts against a set of established criteria.
• Staying Informed: Maintain knowledge of market conditions & competitive activities and use these to identify opportunities in the market.
• Collaboration Across Teams: Collaborate seamlessly between Delaware Marketing and Sales Teams.
• Event and Campaign Support: Support marketing efforts by actively participating in online or in person events, and following up with delegates and registrants. 
• Relationship Building: Cultivate and nurture relationships with prospective clients, looking for avenues to add value, and differentiate delaware.
• Day-to-day essentials: Stay on top of administrative tasks - such as updating delaware’s CRM. Confident communication both with delaware stakeholders during various internal meetings, and externally with C level executives at prospective client organisations.

• Demonstrable ability to interact with stakeholders of all seniorities, both internally within delaware and at prospective client organisations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft compelling messages, overcome objections, and initiate meaningful conversations to generate interest. 
• Ability to work from anywhere in the UK, with fairly infrequent travel to support opportunities or meet the team at dlw office locations.
• Experience in selling ERP or similar technology (e.g. SAP, Microsoft, salesforce etc.) or similar solutions and services would be an advantage. 

We attract and retain only the best people who share our values and thrive in our culture. We strive for the highest levels of excellence in all that we do – with our clients, our people, our business, our careers.

We do the right thing to satisfy our clients, combining quiet confidence and a human touch.  We are open, positive, enthusiastic and energetic. At Delaware we value and invest in personal competence as much as technical competence and we all want to help each other succeed. We value diversity for the breadth of perspectives and skills it brings us and the better results it produces.

We enjoy each other’s company. We work hard together and we have fun together. We trust one another.

Underpinning our culture are our core values. They are a living part of our daily interactions, influencing what we do and how we do it. They guide how we work with our colleagues, customers, and partners.

Care - we take responsibility. Commitment - we commit, we deliver. Community -  we are better together. Respect - inclusive and diverse. Entrepreneurship - we cherish creativity and drive

Come have a chat with us and tell us all about your skills, talents and previous experience. 

Are you keen to help us grow our Business Development team? Make sure to connect with us if you have any questions whatsoever. 

Click the Apply now button below and hopefully we'll get to meet each other soon! 

Please note that it is a legal requirement that you have the right to work in the UK by the time you commence employment.  We therefore ask those shortlisted for interview to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.  

Delaware holds a sponsor licence but not all roles are suitable for sponsorship, especially as, in some cases, individuals are required to work on long term client contracts, and this is not permitted under the sponsorship regime. Also, in some case individuals may be required to work in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe at short notice.  If you do not currently have the right to work in the UK we will still consider your application.  

If your application is successful beyond the first interview stage we will consider whether sponsorship is a possibility or, where appropriate, whether there are any other immigration options available but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that sponsorship will always be possible.