Business Development Executive - Melbourne, Australia - Holmes Australia & Holmes NZ

Description

Administration Melbourne Full Time
13/2/202- Part-time or Full-time role (you choose)

• Exciting, newly created opportunity where you can truly make your mark
• Melbourne CBD location (with WFH flexibility)

We're a specialist engineering consultancy with a focus in Australia on Fire Engineering. We have a reputation for intelligent, pragmatic fire engineering and design collaboration.

Our performance-based solutions consistently deliver cost-efficient, innovative fire engineering, giving our clients confidence and certainty across the lifecycle of their buildings.

Holmes was founded more than 60 years ago, and we now have over 550 people across New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the USA.

We're a friendly, relaxed team who love what we do, with a culture we are proud of, offering plenty of fun and good times along the way.

We celebrate and reward success, nurture career development and always look for opportunities to make our work environment more motivating and inspirational.

About the role

In this newly created role, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day business development activities and implementation of the local and national business development strategy.

Through research, you'll develop marketing and project opportunities, with both new and existing clients.

You'll provide insight into how best to implement the BD strategy and guide the future business operations to manage the opportunities.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be a Business Development professional with strong experience in BD principles as they relate to the services industry - in particular, consulting engineering, construction, or architecture.

You'll be able to establish practises which strengthen and guide the way the business and broader team operates in relation to new business and be relationship oriented in your approach.

Local market knowledge in construction and/or the architecture industries is highly preferred.

It goes without saying that you have excellent communication skills, you are comfortable to explore new opportunities that will allow you to make new introductions along the way, you can build relationships with ease and are creative and solutions focused.

If you want to work in a growing and dynamic business, this could be the opportunity for you

Working with Holmes

• You'll have the chance to play a big part in the growth and development of the budding Holmes Fire office in Melbourne, growing our brand awareness and presence in the local market.
• Supportive and friendly team environment.
• Continual professional development conversations + performance & career conversations.
• We offer and encourage flexible working and we operate on a 37.5 hour working week with 'timeofday' and WFH arrangements available.
• Our vision at Holmes is to be more representative of the communities we serve and the places we live and work._ _Holmes people are encouraged to dream big and empowered to achieve their goals in an environment where we recognise and value diversity._ _Our commitment is to provide all of our great people equal support and equal opportunity to thrive, grow and develop._