Sales Development Rep - Life Sciences Services

Graduate Sales Development Representative Role

Graduate Programme · Join Our Team

Manchester, On-Site · Life Sciences & Biopharma Division · Full Training Provided · Full-Time

Sectors: AI Healthcare · Life Science Software · Biotechnology · Digital Health

About the Role

QP Group is the access point to the industry’s top 1% of leadership talent: a specialist executive search consultancy connecting innovative enterprises with the leaders who move them forward. As a Sales Development Representative, you’ll sit at the front of QP’s search pipeline: identifying the companies our Business Consultants should be talking to, spotting the signals that say a business is about to hire, and opening the door through outbound outreach. No prior sales or recruitment experience is required. We hire for attitude and coachability, and teach the rest.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Target account building: build and maintain target company lists within a specialist market, using tools like Inven and QP’s market maps, prioritising businesses showing real growth signals over generic volume.
• Buying-signal tracking: monitor the triggers that say a company is about to hire, including funding rounds, leadership appointments, new job postings and team expansion, flagging live windows of opportunity early.
• Outbound outreach: run structured, high-volume outbound campaigns across LinkedIn, e-shot sequences and phone to decision-makers at target companies, opening new conversations for QP.
• Inbound qualification: respond to inbound interest (website enquiries, LinkedIn replies, referrals) and qualify it against QP’s ideal client profile before it’s passed on.
• Booking and handover: convert interest into booked discovery calls for QP’s Business Consultants and Co-Founders, with a clean, well-briefed handover of context.
• Pipeline reporting: keep QP’s target tracker and CRM accurate and up to date, reporting weekly on outreach activity, response rates and conversion.

What We’re Looking For

• Resilient and target-driven, comfortable with high-volume outreach and the inevitable knock-backs that come with it.
• Naturally curious, genuinely interested in company news, funding rounds and market movements.
• A sharp, confident communicator who can open a conversation with a senior decision-maker cold.
• Organised, with the discipline to track and follow up on every lead systematically.
• Coachable, with the ambition to grow into a full billing Business Consultant role over time. We can teach outbound. We cannot teach attitude.

Our Values

• Excellence. We set the highest bar in everything we do, from the talent we place to the way we serve our clients.
• Relentlessness. We don’t stop until the right leader is found. Tenacity is in our DNA.
• Transparency. Honest communication at every stage. If something isn’t right, we say it, fix it, and push forward together.
• Committed. Fully dedicated to our clients’ success and our colleagues’ growth. Results are everything.
• Striving. Continuous improvement is non-negotiable. We push ourselves and each other to be better every day.
• Top 1%. Our benchmark, for the talent we deliver and the standards we hold ourselves to.

Career Progression & Earning Potential

QP Group's development programme is built for ambitious people. You'll start as a Business Consultant, learning the fundamentals and building your own network and client relationships from day one, with a clear path through Senior Consultant and beyond, toward owning your own specialist market or leading a team.

Commission is uncapped and rewards performance directly. Our structure is designed so consultants can take home north of 60% of their fees at the top end. Full, structured training is provided throughout your first year.

Ready to build your career with the Access Point to the Industry's Top 1%?

Apply now: jack@qpexec.com