Opportunities Manager

About the role

About you

Role Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for new enquiries into OPD
• Manage the early stages of the client experience, nurturing key relationships and ensuring their journey into OPD is enjoyable and smooth. This may include qualifying the opportunity, putting NDA’s in place, undertaking background research, logging the lead through OPD’s CRM tool, connecting the opportunity with the relevant department lead, setting up meetings and supporting the team leads through the briefing and proposal process
• Manage initial client communications – following up on proposals, checking client correspondence, working with the finance team to make sure the project is set up correctly on the OPD systems and that the project paperwork is all in order
• Organising initial client meetings, making sure the room is set up, that agendas and meeting minutes are circulated to attendees and supporting all pre-project kick off client interactions
• Managing the progression of opportunities through OPD’s CRM tool and into the project management system upon project commencement

Role Requirements

• Confident communicator who can represent OPD in a professional manner while building rapport with clients and potential new clients into the business
• Commercially astute and driven to make sure opportunities are progressed in a timely fashion through the business
• Excellent attention to detail, with clear focus and the ability to drive opportunities forward in a considered direction
• Self-directed and reliable, with an adaptable and flexible attitude
• A good listener who can understand client needs and requirements
• An understanding of product design and/or engineering - the ideal candidate may have worked in these fields before or be degree level educated in a related field

Working at OPD

At Oxford Product Design (OPD) we’re on a mission to make things better. Better for the products we design, the clients we work with, our people working here, our planet, and everyone we connect with along the way.

Our exceptional team of professional problem solvers work with both start-ups on ground-breaking new ideas, as well as some of the world’s leading brands on category-defining products that improve how we humans live and work.

As innovators we are curious, experimental, creative and passionate. But our pragmatic, precise approach and highly technical expertise mean that manufacturability and risk management are at the core of everything we do.

We are based in a beautiful historic barn in Harwell, Oxfordshire. There is plenty of on-site parking and the studio is well connected by bus and rail links.