Business Development Representative

Remote-first, UK, with easy access to London, United Kingdom

Full Time

About Attercop

Attercop is a specialist AI consultancy working with private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We advise on AI strategy, conduct technology and AI due diligence in support of transactions, and design, build and operate AI systems for portfolio businesses. Our clients are investment professionals and the executives who run the companies they own, and our work sits at the point where AI meets value creation.

The opportunity

We are appointing a Business Development Representative to lead outbound prospecting into the private equity market. The purpose of the role is to identify the right people at funds and portfolio companies, open a conversation with them and secure a qualified first meeting for the commercial team.

This is a dedicated origination role. It does not involve closing, pricing or proposal writing. Once a meeting is qualified and booked, you hand it over with a concise briefing and return to building the pipeline. Your performance is measured on the outreach you deliver and the meetings and qualified opportunities you create.

Your contacts will be value creation and portfolio operations partners and deal team members at private equity funds, together with the CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and CTOs of their portfolio companies.

Responsibilities

Research private equity funds and their portfolios, and build and maintain named contact lists against agreed criteria.

Run daily cold outreach by telephone, email and LinkedIn to senior contacts with whom Attercop has no existing relationship.

Respond promptly to inbound enquiries, event contacts and referrals, and pursue every open conversation to a clear outcome.

Map the portfolios of funds Attercop already works with and open conversations with companies we have not yet reached.

Qualify each opportunity against agreed criteria, secure the first meeting and prepare a short handover briefing.

Maintain a complete and current record in Pipedrive and produce the weekly pipeline report.

Represent Attercop at our own events and selected industry events, and follow up every contact made.

Experience and attributes

A demonstrable record of securing meetings from cold outreach in a business to business environment, against a target.

Confidence on the telephone with senior decision makers and the resilience to sustain outreach through a high volume of rejection.

Concise, well constructed written communication that reflects genuine research into the recipient.

Disciplined use of a CRM within a defined sales process.

The commercial understanding to hold an informed first conversation with a finance director or an investor, and the ability to learn a professional services proposition quickly.

A self starter, comfortable working remotely with a high degree of autonomy and willing to travel for occasional office visits, client meetings and events.

The right to work in the UK.

Experience selling professional or advisory services, and familiarity with private equity or corporate finance, would be an advantage. Neither a technical background nor marketing experience is required.

Remuneration and benefits

Base salary of £35,000, reviewed annually, with scope for growth as your record and the business develop. Commission on the opportunities you originate gives on target earnings of £45,000 to £48,000.

Remote working within the UK, with occasional visits to the office.

Close working with the leadership team, and a defined route into a full cycle sales role as your record and the business develop.

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