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🕒 June 30

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Vesta Software Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • B2B • Enterprise

Vesta Software Group is a global buy-and-hold acquirer of vertical market software companies. It acquires, invests in, and grows independently managed software businesses long-term without taking over day-to-day operations, providing capital, best practices, and access to a global network to accelerate organic and acquired growth. Vesta emphasizes maintaining autonomy for portfolio companies, supporting career development across its group, and has completed 60+ acquisitions across 20 countries with 3,000+ employees and over £1bn available to invest.

📋 Description

• Responsible for managing a multi-faceted business development process, to generate acquisition opportunities for Vesta Software Group Europe. • Reporting directly to the M&A Business Development Manager - Europe. • Conduct industry and competitive research to identify vertical market software businesses that meet our investment criteria and specific metrics. • Engage with target business owners, shareholders, and senior executives regarding the potential acquisition of their business and guide them through the sales process. • Develop and grow a deal pipeline through outbound sales efforts, attendance at trade shows, broker road shows and engaging regularly with existing leads in our database. • Maintain the group’s deal funnel, prospect information and reporting in our proprietary Salesforce database. • Making recommendations to the senior leadership team of Vesta for potential strategies and initiatives to identify new prospects that meet our strategic criteria.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of Sales or Business development experience • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Demonstrated success in cold calling, prospecting, and sales processes • Self-motivated, organised, and able to plan own work schedule, to set and monitor personal performance goals • Degree in business administration, business or a related area of study or equivalent is an asset • Prior software experience in a business to business environment is an asset.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) • Flexible working environment • Professional development opportunities