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Our SDRs are responsible for driving qualified new business meetings for our Business Development team at Leyton UK. They prospect for, research & call new business clients, introducing them to Leyton UK’s consultancy services and ensure attendance of face-to-face meetings with a BDM. With a focus on generating quality new business meetings, you will make targeted calls, engage with senior decision-makers, and highlight our strategic consulting services. This role requires a drive to seek new business opportunities, typically involving 70-80 calls per day. • Generate leads through a variety of channels, including cold outreach, inbound marketing, and networking events., • Qualify leads to determine their potential fit for our services and ensure that they meet our target customer profile., • Conduct research on potential clients and their industries to better understand their needs and pain points., • Build relationships with prospects and educate them on our services, using your knowledge of R&D tax credits and incentives., • Schedule and coordinate meetings for our sales team with qualified prospects., • Collaborate with our marketing team to optimize lead generation efforts and improve our outreach strategies., • Maintain accurate records of lead and prospect interactions in our CRM system, and ensure that all data is up-to-date., • Participate in regular training and professional development to improve your knowledge of our services, industry trends, and sales techniques., • Achieve and exceed weekly, monthly, and quarterly lead generation targets.

About the Company Our client is a high-growth, creator-led marketing agency supporting digitally native DTC brands across beauty, wellness and lifestyle to scale through performance-driven content. As they expand, they are strengthening their outbound sales function. About the Role They are hiring a commercially driven SDR to build qualified pipeline through proactive outreach, engage senior decision-makers, and convert conversations into booked meetings in a target-focused environment. Responsibilities: • Identify and research target brands aligned with the ideal customer profile, • Build and manage structured prospect lists across priority sectors, • Execute personalised outbound outreach via LinkedIn, email and relevant channels, • Initiate high-quality commercial conversations with founders and marketing leaders, • Qualify inbound and outbound leads to assess fit, budget and timing, • Book strong-fit meetings for senior sales stakeholders, • Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records, • Track outreach performance and pipeline metrics, • Refine messaging based on response data and market feedback, • Contribute ideas to improve outbound strategy and sales processes Qualifications: • 1–3+ years in sales, business development, SDR, BDR or growth roles, • Proven experience with outbound prospecting and cold outreach, • Comfortable engaging senior decision-makers and stakeholders, • Experience working in a startup, agency, marketing or SaaS environment preferred, • Familiarity with CRM systems (e.g. HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Apollo or similar), • Experience using LinkedIn Sales Navigator or similar prospecting tools, • Understanding of performance marketing, paid social or creator-led content is advantageous Pay range and compensation package: £33,000 - £40,000 + commission If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please reach out via email with a CV and we can set up a call. Equal Opportunity Statement: We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.

Job Title Sales Manager, Mid Market Reports to Chief Revenue Officer Location / work pattern Hybrid – Manchester WeWork office space, with work-from-home flexibility Salary £60,000 - £70,000 (dependent on experience) £100,000 - £120,000+ OTE (uncapped commission) What we do Vypr is a Manchester HQ’d Private Equity/Venture Capital backed SaaS business. Our market-leading product intelligence platform provides reliable consumer data to help manufacturers and retailers understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and cost spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster. We’re a scale-up business with huge growth ambitions. We’ve proved product market fit with our existing offering and now we’re ready to scale at pace. We’re using scalable new technology to reimagine our product intelligence platform with limitless future potential, from personalisation to AI enhanced insight. Our platform combines behavioural science with well-segmented consumer panels across multiple international markets. We have an enviable and growing customer list that speaks for itself. About the role This is a pivotal leadership role within Vypr’s UK commercial team. As Sales Manager - Mid Market you will be responsible for leading a small team of new business sales professionals focused on winning customers in Vypr’s established UK core sectors – primarily FMCG, retail, and CPG. Your primary focus is on building a high-performing team and creating the conditions for them to succeed: coaching, pipeline management, forecasting accuracy, and ensuring a consistently excellent, consultative sales approach is delivered to every prospect. Whilst you’ll maintain a degree of personal involvement in key deals and senior relationships where appropriate, this is fundamentally a people and performance leadership role, with a low-level of individual contribution. Reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, you’ll work closely with Marketing, Customer Success, and the broader commercial leadership team to sharpen our go-to-market in core segments and ensure the team has everything it needs to execute at pace. What you will do • Lead, coach, and develop a small team of new business sales professionals, creating a high- performance culture grounded in accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement. • Own the team’s new business targets across Vypr’s core sectors, driving consistent pipeline generation, deal progression, and revenue attainment against quarterly and annual goals. • Implement and maintain strong pipeline governance – ensuring accurate Salesforce data, forecast discipline, and the right volume and quality of activity across the team. • Support and challenge your team on complex, multi-stakeholder deals – providing strategic guidance, helping them navigate senior stakeholder conversations, and getting involved in key moments where your experience can shift outcomes. • Partner with Marketing to develop targeted account-based plays and campaigns for core sector segments, ensuring tight alignment between inbound activity and outbound execution.• Champion a consultative, insight-led sales methodology – ensuring the team consistently articulates Vypr’s value in commercial terms that resonate with FMCG and retail buyers. • Provide regular, structured performance feedback to individuals and communicate clearly upward to the CRO on team performance, risks, and opportunities. • Identify and feed in market intelligence – win/loss patterns, competitive dynamics, buyer trends – to inform product positioning and go-to-market strategy. • Play an active role in recruiting and onboarding new team members as the team scales., • Support the teams overall invoicing quantum via your own low-level individual revenue contribution. What you are good at • A proven sales leader with a track record of building and managing high-performing new business teams in a B2B SaaS environment. • Minimum 5–8 years of B2B SaaS sales experience, including demonstrable experience in a sales management or team leadership capacity. • Experience in consumer insights, market research, product intelligence, or closely adjacent data or analytics SaaS is highly desirable. • Strong familiarity with the UK FMCG, retail, or CPG landscape – existing networks and relationships in these sectors are a significant advantage. • A natural coach and people developer – you get genuine satisfaction from making your team better, not just hitting your own numbers. • Commercially sharp, with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders and help your team do the same. • Expert in pipeline management and forecasting – you understand what good looks like and hold the team to it without micromanaging. • Proficient in Salesforce and familiar with sales engagement platforms such as SalesLoft., • Clear, confident communicator – comfortable presenting performance updates and strategic recommendations to senior leadership. • Collaborative and cross-functional by nature – comfortable working closely with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to drive better outcomes. What we offer • Hybrid working – Manchester HQ with work-from-home flexibility, • Competitive base salary and uncapped commission structure, • Enhanced annual leave, • Access to a global benefits and reward platform, • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and wellbeing support, • Life assurance, • Birthday off, • Work from anywhere policy, • A performance-driven bonus package What next? Our Talent Selection process is built around creating a mutual, fair, and transparent dialogue – one that helps you and us establish whether this could be a genuinely rewarding career move. We’ll make space to discuss your leadership experience and ambitions alongside our growth plans, give you the opportunity to meet your potential line manager and peers, showcase your approach in a practical scenario, and spend time in one of our working spaces.

(12 Month FTC and Permanent role opportunities) A Bit About Us Neuven Consult is a Manchester-based consultancy providing audit services, compliance training, bid management & business support. We help businesses become more successful in large-scale procurements within the public sector. We also audit and validate the compliance of suppliers, supporting quality of service. We are the UKs leading experts in this field and are expanding quickly to meet the growing demands of central government, NHS, the wider public sector, and key organisations in the private sector across Healthcare, Logistics, Commercial and Retail. Your Role You will be joining a team of experienced, positive, and proactive individuals who are dedicated to helping Great Britains businesses grow, stimulating the UK economy, and strengthening our nation. We achieve this by helping businesses access and win government contracts worth millions of pounds, that they may otherwise miss out on. AsCommercial Data & Prospecting Executivereporting to the Sales Leadership team your objective is to analyse existing, and manually source new, prospect data to determine the prospects need for government contracts, and our services, and to organise engagement calls that ultimately lead to qualified appointments and thus new clients for Neuven Consult. Your day will include a combination of data cleansing and ideal prospect identification within our CRM, new data acquisition via manual search as well as building relationships with data brokers, doing initial outreach via email, social, and also some cold calling, pre-qualifying businesses for our services, setting engagement calls for the sales manager, maintaining our database/CRM, as well as managing your own activity levels, prospect and marketing activities, sales support and organisational responsibilities. ? What You Can Expect from Us This is a new sales department being built from the ground up, and that means lots of opportunity. Our aim is to recruit several people over the next 12 months, and as revenues and the business develops further, so will the need for new roles and internal promotions. This role comes with a £26,600 basic with a performance-based capped commission incentive, which will develop as the business and team grows, and headroom to develop and grow within the business. You will also benefit from the companys annual bonus scheme, pension scheme, Medicash benefits, paid time off, and perks at work discounts. You can expect a comprehensive induction to the business, our industry, and to our sales process. We have an extremely positive company environment that is flexible and sensitive to modern day needs. Our average staff tenure is 6 years, in just 10 years of trading! What We Expect From You Data sourcing and/or research experience Outbound (cold calling) experience desirable B2B experience ideally Trustworthy enough to deliver role responsibilities in a predominantly remote setting. Motivated and passionate, aiming to deliver target as a bare minimum. Ability to organise and prioritise tasks effectively. Exemplary IT skills. Experience of working in a target-driven environment. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to work as part of a team. Interested? To apply follow the link to the Neuven platform JBRP1_UKTJ

Our client are a Customs Services company thathandles all types of customs declarations (import, export, SPS, ENS, transit, etc.) with 24/7 support. A service designed for hauliers, freight forwarder and shippers. Sales Executive They are looking for a Sales Executive based in their Folkstone office. This role will drive planned business growth through the identification and conversion of new customers. Key Responsibilities: Assist with the development and management of an effective sales strategy. Build and maintain relationships with customers. Identifying new sales opportunities through lead generation and networking. Research the market and competition. Attend trade shows, exhibitions and events. Client visits. Conduct product demonstrations and presentations to prospective clients. Maintaining the CRM system. Produce regular reports on new client progress and prospect pipeline to inform management to enable future planning and decision making. Collaborating with internal teams, including marketing and customer support, to ensure a seamless client experience. Required Skills & Experience: Telesales B2B experience is essential. A track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets. Customs Knowledge is an advantage. Polish language skills would be an advantage. Excellent verbal and written?communication?skills. Strong IT skills including MS Office and email systems. JBRP1_UKTJ

Customer Service Adviser (Student Support) Pay Rate: £12.79 Location: Manchester Start Date: 5th May 2026 to 25th September 2026 A second intake will also commence in early June 2026 for candidates who are not available for the May start. Training: 7-week on-site training period at M22 4UN (with Fridays working from home). Post-training: The role becomes primarily remote, with one day per month on site. Office space is also available on campus for those who prefer to be office-based. Are you looking for a job with a real purpose? Are you? Passionate about delivering an exceptional level of customer service An effective communicator with sufficient IT skills that allow you to support students with a range of enquiries A motivated self-starter who can adapt to the needs of an operation Able to thrive in a collaborative working environment and enjoy being part of a highly experienced and supportive team Able to bring energy to your role and always striving for excellence Excited about the prospect of working for a highly established distanced learning organisation in which you will be able to make a difference to students lives Change your career, change lives The Open University is the UK's largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education. Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link). We have several exciting new opportunities for customer service professionals to join our frontline team in our Student Recruitment and Support Contact Centres. This is a busy and varied role, where you'll help our students - and people who are looking to study with us - make decisions about their learning. Our Student Advisers are the first point of contact for prospective and current students seeking information about study at the OU. The team support students by ensuring they have the information they need to make the right study choices for them and are able to enrol and pay using their chosen method. The team work with colleagues across the University to support students and enquirers. About the role The role involves significant telephone work, both inbound and outbound, to provide support to students through their study journey. As well as email, letter, webchat and other mediums as necessary. You will need to be confident working with multiple systems, information and databases to maintain student and enquirer details. You will ensure that prospective and current students are given accurate information, and you will work with colleagues across the University to provide support. You will receive full training for the role from dedicated Trainers who will use high quality materials, followed by regular support, coaching and development from your manager and established team members to build your confidence and knowledge within the role. We currently have posts available at our Manchester, Milton Keynes and Nottingham offices. Once the initial on-site training programme is complete, it is anticipated that candidates will be able to work in a hybrid style. This means that candidates should be able to work comfortably from home and their appointed OU office. Therefore, candidates will need to live within a reasonable commute to their OU office. Candidates will be supplied with a laptop to work flexibly. Dates and key information This position has a fixed start date, and you must be able to commence in the role on Tuesday 5th May. Full commitment to the length of the contract is required (to Friday 25th September 2026). For the first seven weeks, this role will be based in the office so that successful candidates receive full training and support to ensure they are prepared and confident within the role. After this period, a hybrid working pattern will be in place. This role is full time working 37 hours, paying £12.79ph and successful candidates will be required to work to a flexible working pattern which will be between the current opening hours of 8.00am - 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Please note that leave will be restricted during the initial training period, and for the last week of August and the first two weeks of September as this is the peak operational period. During training, you will be fully supported by a Trainer in a training group of up to 14 people. You'll be able to see and communicate with your group and will also be required to interact with group activities via a webcam, so you'll need to be comfortable with this. On the occasions that you are required to work from home, you will need to ensure you have broadband internet speeds of at least 10Mbit/s download and 2Mbit/s upload. You can test your speeds at the below site: (url removed) How to apply Please click 'Apply' and upload a copy of your most recent CV to be considered. Make sure to click on the links in the advert to find out more about the role and test your broadband speed. If you are interested in the role or require any more information, please email (url removed) we look forward to hearing from you. Closing date: Friday 3rd April