Business Development Executive

The Vacancy

🌟 Business Development Executive – Wates Property Services

📍 Location: Finsbury Park (willing to travel) ¦ 📅 Contract: 12 Months FTC ¦ 💼 Business Unit: South Planned Maintenance

🚀 Immediate Start

Are you ready to shape the future of client relationships and strategic growth in a business that’s going places?

We’re looking for a proactive and commercially astute Business Development Executive (BDE) to join our Wates Property Services team on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role is pivotal in maintaining and expanding our customer base, driving new opportunities, and ensuring a strong, sustainable pipeline of work.

This is more than just a contract – it’s a chance to make a measurable impact, with the support of a high-performing team and the opportunity to grow into a broader role across our businesses.

🔍 What You’ll Be Doing

• Client Growth & Retention: Maintain and grow existing customer relationships, ensuring tailored solutions that align with both client and business goals.
• Strategic Development: Support the delivery of our marketing plan and sector strategy, including workshops, reporting, and progress tracking.
• Pipeline Management: Identify and secure new business opportunities, contributing to tenders, SQs, and promotional activity.
• Market Intelligence: Monitor competitor performance and market trends, feeding insights into strategic planning.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Clients, Client Relationship Directors, Business Development Administrator and business leads to deliver results.

🧠 What You’ll Bring

• Experience in business development, sales, or strategic partnerships (3–5 years preferred)
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Commercial awareness and a results-driven mindset
• Proficiency in CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) and Microsoft Office
• A collaborative, customer-centric approach with the ability to juggle multiple priorities

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🌱 Why Join Us?

• Impact: This role is designed to pay for itself – through increased revenue, stronger client relationships, and a more resilient business pipeline.
• Support: You’ll be backed by a dedicated Business Development Administrator and supported by the Client Relationship Director (during maternity KIT days).
• Opportunity: Potential to evolve into a cross-business role, supporting succession planning and long-term growth if successful in the role.

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If you’re ready to drive growth, build lasting partnerships, and help shape the future of WPS, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Apply now or contact the WPS recruitment team for more information.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.