# Hunter-Style Business Developer

> Remote Recruitment · South Africa (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-20

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

### Job Overview

We are seeking a pure hunter-style Business Developer to open new client accounts, develop new territories and generate new recruitment opportunities.

This is not a traditional 360 recruitment role. The primary focus will be on business development, cold outreach, winning new clients and securing qualified job briefs.

Some candidate resourcing responsibilities may be introduced at a later stage, but the immediate priority is generating new business.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Identify and approach prospective clients across the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors.
-   Conduct high volumes of telephone-based business-development activity.
-   Open new client accounts and develop new geographical or sector-based territories.
-   Engage hiring managers and senior decision-makers.
-   Qualify prospective clients and recruitment requirements.
-   Secure detailed and workable job briefs.
-   Build relationships with new prospects from the first cold contact.
-   Maintain consistent follow-up activity across telephone, email and LinkedIn.
-   Develop a pipeline of prospective and active clients.
-   Use market-mapping and lead-generation tools to identify target organisations.
-   Record business-development activity and maintain accurate CRM information.
-   Work towards revenue, client-acquisition and job-generation targets.
-   Assist with candidate resourcing later, depending on business requirements.

### Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should be:

-   Hungry, ambitious and strongly motivated by financial success.
-   Tenacious and comfortable working in a highly proactive sales environment.
-   Confident making cold calls and dealing with rejection.
-   Naturally phone-first in their approach to business development.
-   Able to build a recruitment desk or target market from the ground up.
-   Skilled at opening new accounts and converting cold prospects into clients.
-   Confident qualifying job briefs and identifying genuine hiring requirements.
-   Self-motivated and capable of working independently from home.
-   Comfortable working UK business hours.

### Ideal Background

The strongest candidates will have experience in:

-   Engineering recruitment.
-   Manufacturing recruitment.
-   Technical recruitment.
-   Design-engineering or project-engineering recruitment.
-   New-business development within a recruitment agency.
-   Building a cold recruitment desk or entering a new market.

## Benefits

### Systems and Tools Provided

-   SourceWhale for outreach campaigns.
-   Lusha.
-   Market Mapper for identifying markets, candidates and hiring managers.
-   Ringover telephone system with call-transcription functionality.
-   Leading recruitment job boards.
-   LinkedIn Recruiter.
-   LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
-   Additional tools may be considered where they demonstrate a clear return on investment.

## Apply

[Apply at Remote Recruitment](https://apply.workable.com/remote-recruitment/j/4E9F90A869/apply)

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