Business Development Manager – UK

Location: Remote within the UK

Company

hirify.global is a specialist technology recruitment business providing structured screening and engineering-led candidate validation for clients in the UK, US, and international markets.

What you will do

• Generate new business across the UK technology recruitment market.
• Identify companies with current or upcoming hiring requirements and engage CTOs, founders, talent leaders, and other decision-makers.
• Conduct outbound sales through calls, email, LinkedIn, networking, and referrals.
• Lead discovery calls, present recruitment services, understand hiring challenges, and develop suitable solutions.
• Convert prospects into active clients, secure vacancies, and negotiate fees, terms, and commercial arrangements.
• Build long-term client relationships and collaborate with recruitment, sourcing, and technical screening teams after business is secured.

Requirements

• Proven experience selling recruitment services to businesses and personally winning new recruitment clients.
• Previous recruitment experience, ideally followed by a move into sales or business development.
• Strong 360 recruitment experience with substantial responsibility for new business generation may also be considered.
• Confidence with cold outreach, prospecting, discovery calls, pitching, objection handling, negotiation, and closing.
• Strong relationship-building skills with senior business and hiring decision-makers.
• Commercial drive, resilience, and the ability to develop business from a cold start.

Nice to have

• Technology recruitment or dedicated recruitment agency sales experience.
• Existing relationships within the UK technology market.
• Experience developing a recruitment market, desk, or territory from scratch.
• Experience selling to start-ups, scale-ups, SaaS, or technology-led businesses.
• Knowledge of software engineering, AI, cloud, DevOps, data, or cybersecurity recruitment, plus CRM and prospecting platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, independent working arrangement within the UK.
• Primary focus on sales and client acquisition with support from dedicated recruitment, sourcing, and technical screening teams.
• Attractive uncapped commission structure.
• Potential progression to a base salary plus commission structure.
• Significant autonomy over sales strategy and target market.
• Opportunity to build a portfolio of UK technology clients and sell a recruitment service backed by technical validation.