Business Development Manager, Lovey
£100k
OTE
£36-40k
BASE
OTE stated is from year 2
Online finance broker and lender
Posted today
Online finance broker and lender
101-200 employees
Posted today
£100k
OTE
£36-40k
BASE
OTE stated is from year 2
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the business loan process simple, seamless, and beautiful for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be confident, commercially driven and highly motivated by targets and earning potential
- You'll be resilient enough to deal with rejection, disciplined enough to build your own pipeline and hungry enough to close the deals you've created
- We're looking for high-energy, driven individuals who are ambitious, competitive and motivated to succeed
- We're looking for an ambitious, commercially driven salesperson who wants ownership of their results and the opportunity to earn serious money
- Confident and comfortable making high volumes of outbound calls
- Naturally persuasive and able to build rapport quickly
- Resilient and comfortable with cold calling, rejection and challenging conversations
- Commercially minded and highly motivated by targets and financial reward
- Hungry to generate their own opportunities rather than relying on inbound leads
- Confident and capable of taking a prospect from initial conversation through to close
- Proactive, competitive and driven to succeed
- Well organised with strong pipeline and follow-up skills
- Confident speaking to business owners and senior decision-makers
- Accountable for their own performance and motivated by exceeding targets
- Eager to build a long-term career in a high-growth sales environment
- Experience in B2B sales, business development, telesales or a full-cycle sales environment is essential, with a proven ability to generate opportunities and close business
- Previous experience in finance broking or financial services is highly desirable
- If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced sales environment, enjoys picking up the phone and is motivated by achieving big results, you'll fit right in
- If you're ready to take ownership of your own pipeline, generate your own business, close your own deals and be rewarded for your performance, we'd love to hear from you
What the job involves
- This is a role where you will own the entire sales process - from generating your own leads and making the initial approach, through to building the relationship, managing the opportunity and ultimately closing the deal
- You'll be responsible for developing your own pipeline through proactive outbound activity, speaking directly with business owners and decision-makers, understanding their funding requirements and converting those conversations into revenue
- This is not an appointment-setting role. You generate your own opportunities, and you close your own deals
- You'll have ownership of your pipeline and the opportunity to directly influence your earnings through your performance
- You'll need to be confident picking up the phone, generating your own opportunities and taking them through the full sales process
- From the initial conversation through to understanding the customer's needs, presenting the right funding solution and closing the deal, you'll own the relationship and be responsible for converting your own pipeline into revenue
- Generate your own leads and build a consistent pipeline of new business opportunities
- Make high-volume outbound calls to businesses and prospective customers
- Identify and engage business owners and senior decision-makers
- Develop new business opportunities through proactive prospecting and outbound activity
- Understand customers' businesses and identify their funding requirements
- Qualify opportunities and determine the most appropriate funding solutions
- Manage the full sales process from initial contact through to close
- Build strong relationships with prospects and convert them into customers
- Handle objections, negotiate and confidently ask for the sale
- Follow up consistently and manage your pipeline to maximise conversion
- Take ownership of your sales activity, pipeline, revenue and results
- Consistently work towards and exceed agreed activity, revenue and sales targets
- Develop a strong understanding of the business finance market and the funding solutions available through Lovey
Our take
Let's face it, finance has a bit of a bad rep, often being boring, tedious, and just plain outdated. Lovey (previously Love Finance) is here to shake up that narrative and bring business lending into the modern world. And they've already helped thousands of UK SMEs secure the funding they need to grow.
Lovey does so by lending their own money and working with trusted partners to make sure businesses get the best deal possible. They have a tech-first approach, which allows clients to check their eligibility in just 5 minutes and, if approved, get funds in as little as 4 hours.
Since launching in 2016, Lovey has helped over 5,000 UK businesses access more than £200M in funding and they're not slowing down any time soon.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% female employees
Company
Company HQ
City Centre, Birmingham, UK
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Leadership
Jack Smith
(Founder & CEO)Jack founded Lovey in 2016 and has served as the CEO since.
Alex O'Malley
(Managing Director)Alex joined the Lovey team in 2017 as a National Account Manager, he then became Head of Sales in 2022 and Managing Director in 2024. Prior to Love Finance, he spent 3 years at Shire Leasing as a Sales Executive and Account Manager.
People progressing
Emily joined Lovey 3.5 years ago, doing email marketing & copywriting. She now leads comms, training and onboarding, monthly wrap-ups, & CRM ownership. She’s also a Mental Health First Aider.
Marcell joined Lovey as a UX Designer in Mar 2024; overhauled the website, advanced brand strategy, and led end‑to‑end design of the dashboard, underwriter portal, and Lovey app.
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