Sales Development Representative (SDR) – Executive Search & Life Sciences
Location: Manchester (Office-Based)
Company: QP Group
QP Group is a specialist executive search firm supporting some of the world's leading life sciences, healthcare technology, AI, data, and software businesses.
We're looking for a commercially minded Sales Development Representative (SDR) to build and manage our outbound business development engine. This is a pure new-business role focused on opening doors, generating opportunities, and creating relationships with prospective clients across the US and Europe.
Key Responsibilities
- Build targeted prospect lists and outbound campaigns.
- Generate meetings with hiring leaders, founders, and executives.
- Secure opportunities for executive search mandates, retained search projects, and large-scale hiring programmes.
- Develop relationships that lead to preferred supplier agreements (PSAs), service level agreements (SLAs), and long-term partnerships.
- Manage outbound activity across LinkedIn, email, phone, and events.
- Work closely with leadership to refine messaging, market strategy, and target accounts.
- Track pipeline activity and performance through CRM systems.
Requirements
- Previous experience in SDR, BDR, or B2B sales.
- Comfortable with cold outreach and high-volume business development.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Highly organised with a process-driven approach.
- Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by commercial success.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistent generation of qualified client meetings.
- Creation of new retained search and recruitment opportunities.
- Establishment of strategic client relationships and supplier agreements.
- Building a scalable outbound sales process that supports the firm's continued growth.
This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing areas of QP Group and play a key role in driving new client acquisition across the global life sciences market.
Reach out to discuss - jack@qpexec.com