Business Development Director - Dunbartonshire

Business Development Director jobs

Successful businesses don’t run themselves, and clients can never be taken for granted. It is for these reasons that business development is an ongoing speciality in successful companies. While sales teams tend to seek out new leads, and account managers deal with existing clients, a business development team, usually run by a business development director, straddles the two jobs.

The main task of the role is to maximise profitability by keeping abreast of new openings both in terms of finding potential clients and getting more out of existing clients, a task that clearly requires diplomacy and subtlety!

Reporting to senior management, the business development director will be in charge of making sure budgets are kept to and targets met. In larger firms, the position might oversee business development managers who in turn are in charge of specialist marketing, sales and development staff.

The skills required

Successful business development directors will have great interpersonal skills, in particular a highly professional approach to sales. They will need to be able to quickly understand potentially complex business strategies and targets as set by senior management and communicate them to the team under their control.

As companies vary in size, the specific skills required of the business development director will also vary, so whereas he or she might be talking to particular clients daily for one firm, the role might be more of a co-ordination one in another, so skill sets required will be quite diverse for the career business development director.

Business Development Director Jobs in Dunbartonshire

Dunbartonshire is a wide, thin strip of a county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. It is wedged between Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire and Argyll and Bute, and has the town of Dumbarton as its county town. Quite why the town is spelt with an M and the county with an N is a historical quirk, but it’s certainly worth noting if you’re applying for jobs here! (Dunbartonshire is sometimes called the County of Dumbarton, just to confuse matters.)

Dunbartonshire is well linked to Glasgow and has the Loch Lomond National Park to its north, making the county a popular part of the tourist trail as well as a desirable place for commuters. We do find Business Development Director and similar jobs within the county, but Glasgow should also be a very strong option in your job search.

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