Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Slave Free Alliance is social enterprise and 100% owned by the Anti-Slavery Charity Hope for Justice. Founded in 2018, we have expanded rapidly and have over 95 members, including 14 UK FTSE 100 companies. Our members include AstraZeneca, Aldi and Experian plus many more.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our Slave-Free Alliance (SFA) team. In this role you will responsible for delivering new business opportunities in the UK. SFA is a social enterprise and membership initiative that supports businesses to develop strategies and action plans which mitigate the threat of modern slavery in their businesses and supply chains.

To be successful in this role, you will build a sales pipeline to develop new & nurture existing relationships with businesses in the UK, delivering signed contracts for new SFA memberships, training and consultancy services. You will be experienced in building and executing sales campaigns and generating leads to deliver a budgeted monthly income for SFA in the UK. You will be one of the key representatives in the UK, whilst also supporting International projects as required.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing social enterprise that is dedicated to addressing modern slavery in organisations and supply chains globally.

For full details of this role and expectations, download the attached role profile.

• New business development. Build a sales pipeline to develop new & nurture existing relationships with businesses in the UK. This will involve “cold calling” businesses.
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive business development strategy.
• Following-up on marketing qualified leads, replying to enquiries, converting leads.
• Writing proposals, create presentations, having meetings, and taking responsibility for overall relationships with key stakeholders in target businesses.
• Work cross-functionally to develop compelling proposals for prospective SFA members/clients.
• Provide monthly revenue forecasts for new business.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure SFA service contracts are delivered on time and to the agreed specification.
• Be one of the key representatives for SFA in UK.
• Support International SFA projects as required.
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme contributions, company sick pay, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to the Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family. As well as operating both Flexible and Hybrid working policies for our UK employees.

Salary: Up to £35,000, dependent on experience

Closing date: 23rd December 2022

Location: Flexible, UK (Occasional travel maybe required to the Manchester Head Office)

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.