Business Development Manager – UK

Reference: BH-399c

Job Type: Freelance / Independent Co.

Location: Remote (UK)

About ByteHire

ByteHire is a specialist technology recruitment business helping companies hire high-quality technical talent across the UK, US and international markets.

We take a technical-first approach, combining specialist recruitment with structured screening and engineering-led validation to give clients greater confidence in the candidates they interview.

We are looking for an experienced recruitment sales professional to generate new client relationships and help grow ByteHire's UK business.

About the Role

This is primarily a sales and business development role. Your focus will be selling ByteHire's recruitment services to new companies, opening conversations with hiring decision-makers and converting prospects into active recruitment clients.

Ideally, you will have previously worked as a recruiter before moving into a sales or business development position. We are also interested in strong 360 recruiters who can demonstrate that winning new clients has been a significant part of their role.

You will be supported by ByteHire's recruitment, sourcing and technical screening teams, allowing you to concentrate primarily on developing relationships and generating new business.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who has personally sold recruitment services to businesses and understands how to turn a cold prospect into an active recruitment client.

You should be comfortable identifying target companies, approaching senior decision-makers, pitching recruitment services, handling objections, negotiating terms and ultimately securing vacancies.

Recruitment experience is highly valuable because we want someone who understands what they are selling, but your ability to generate and close new business is the priority.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business for ByteHire across the UK technology market.

• Identify companies with current or upcoming recruitment requirements.

• Prospect and engage CTOs, founders, talent leaders and other hiring decision-makers.

• Conduct outbound sales through calls, email, LinkedIn, networking and referrals.

• Lead discovery calls and present ByteHire's recruitment services.

• Understand client hiring challenges and develop appropriate recruitment solutions.

• Convert prospects into active clients and secure new vacancies.

• Negotiate recruitment fees, terms and commercial arrangements.

• Develop long-term client relationships and identify opportunities for account growth.

• Work with ByteHire's recruitment team to ensure successful delivery once business is secured.

Key Experience

• Proven experience selling recruitment services to businesses.

• Strong track record of personally winning new recruitment clients and generating revenue.

• Previous recruitment experience, ideally followed by a move into sales or business development.

• Alternatively, strong 360 recruitment experience with substantial responsibility for new business generation.

• Confident with cold outreach, prospecting, discovery calls and closing new business.

• Experience pitching recruitment services and negotiating fees and terms.

• Strong relationship-building skills with senior business and hiring decision-makers.

• Commercially driven, resilient and comfortable developing business from a cold start.

Desirable Experience

• Previous technology recruitment experience.

• Dedicated recruitment agency sales or business development experience.

• Existing relationships within the UK technology market.

• Experience developing a recruitment market, desk or territory from scratch.

• Experience selling recruitment services to start-ups, scale-ups, SaaS or technology-led businesses.

• Knowledge of software engineering, AI, cloud, DevOps, data or cybersecurity recruitment.

• Experience using CRM, prospecting and recruitment technology platforms.

Why Join?

• Focus primarily on sales and client acquisition, supported by a dedicated recruitment team.

• Attractive, uncapped commission structure.

• Opportunity to progress to a base salary plus commission structure.

• Significant autonomy over your sales strategy and target market.

• Sell a differentiated recruitment service backed by technical screening and validation.

• Build your own portfolio of UK technology clients.

• Fully remote, independent working arrangement.