Business Growth & Development

🕐 Role Type: Part-time (16-24 hrs per week) – opportunity to go full-time.

📍 Location: Remote

💷 Salary: £24k-£28k pro-rata (based on experience) + 3% commission

Who We Are

Driftime® are a mission-driven creative partner, helping progressive brands, established companies and sustainable initiatives, achieve long term impact through design and digital empowerment.

Snapshot

• Great company culture and a strong set of values that focus on people and planet driven outcomes.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.
• Shortlisted as one of the Best Small Agencies to Work for by UK Company Culture Awards.
• We're B Corp certified. A new kind of business that balances purpose and profit.
• We donate 1% or more of our annual turnover through 1% Percent for the Planet as Business Members.
• We're part of the 'Better Business Act' where we join hundreds of companies with a mission to change UK law and make sure every single company in the UK put balancing people, profit and planet at the heart of their purpose.
• We’re co-instigators of Design Declares, a growing group of designers, design studios, agencies and institutions here to declare a climate and ecological emergency.
• We are a Living Wage employer, ensuring a fair and competitive wage.
• We work with impact driven partners, aiming for impact driven results.
• We apply humane design principles, empowering people (not users) to make better decisions through design.
• We don't believe in line managers or hierarchy, so our company structure is relatively flat.
• We give complete autonomy with work hours and location, meaning you can choose what hours and location works best to suit your needs in life.
• We’re a micro-business, and adopt an agile approach to improving how we operate.

Website – https://driftime.media/

2023 Impact Report – https://2023.driftime.com/

Our Values

We exist to empower everyone to create together. For us, that means encouraging and enabling creative expression, collaboration and experimentation. We are a mission-driven team that lives and breathes our core values...

Company Values – https://www.notion.so/driftime/Company-Values-a698646158dc4add93917b4254007625?pvs=4

Who You Are

We are looking for a Business Growth & Client Relations professional to join our amazing team. This is a business development role that focuses on seeking out new clients, building new relationships and driving new business efforts at Driftime®.

In time you will become one of the faces of the business and must have a genuine passion to win new work and play your part in building the reputation of the company. You’ll be working closely with comms, marketing and one of the founders in delivering our long term strategy for continual growth and impact. Having experience in a creative agency would be ideal, though not absolutely necessary. What’s important is a clear track record of building long term relationships.

We're a small nimble team, so we're looking for a person who is not afraid to wear many hats. If you're someone who is excited for their next challenge and eager to dive into many different parts of what we do and represent, then this role is perfect for you!

Personal Values – https://www.notion.so/driftime/Personal-Values-f3424fcfe40a4a12a1f7d64bfca7d889?pvs=4

What You'll Do

• Conducting research on industries, clients and prospects - including peer analysis.
• Actively seek out, suggest new business opportunities, reaching out to brands and companies with a view to setting up introductions.
• Working closely with the CCO to develop our business and relationship development strategy.
• Bring compelling new points of view/ideas on how to shape/improve the new business process and drive these improvements forward.
• Manage, maintain and track the new business contacts database.
• Maintain the new business pipeline through continued conversations, follow up and lead generation.
• Co-ordinating all new business meetings and making sure all stakeholders are briefed and prepped.
• Assist on management and development of notes, pitches & presentations to potential new clients alongside the CCO.
• Attending events with our team and on our behalf, networking and striking up new friendships with future client partners.
• Build forward-facing strategies to champion inbound, outbound, nearbound, referrals and new business as a whole.

What You'll Need

• A highly-motivated and tenacious person who is able to spot where the best new opportunities lie.
• A background and success in a similar role generating new business.
• A well-developed presentation style and the confidence to communicate our offering to new clients.
• Experience working in the creative industry - ideally working within a creative agency.
• Excellent communication skills - including writing, speaking and active listening, with a real attention to detail.
• Maintain a solutions-orientated perspective and be future-minded towards the growth of the company.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic, with a passion for building relationships and an interest in creative services.
• An understanding (ideally experience) of the overlap of sales, marketing and creative industries.

Benefits & Perks

• 100% Distributed - our team works remotely and flexibly, but you will have to be available to collaborate on UK timezone–friendly hours.
• Competitive Salary.
• Complete Autonomy - you can choose when, where, and how to work. All we ask is that you align this to meetings and partner needs for effective collaboration.
• We're a growing business, and will work with you to define your role and career. We actively look to understand what Driftime can do for you, and provide opportunities (and budget) for personal development.
• Unlimited Paid Holiday (after probation period for full time employees only)
• Sustainable Pension Plan through Penfold.
• Access to Skillshare and an extensive library of training courses, plus budget towards specific training and personal development.

The Small Print

• This is a pro-rata salary with an expected 16-24 hours per week, spread over 2-3 days.
• Please read this carefully before submitting. Applicants that are clearly not a good fit will not be considered. We're looking for applicants that care about long-term impact, and are passionate about creating long term partner relationships.
• Applicants must have the right to work within the UK.
• Recruiters will be ignored. Please save yourself time.
• Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates during the initial phase.