Join an exciting high growth scale up
About Us
Laundry Republic was founded in 2008 to offer London a better way of doing dry cleaning and laundry – one which fits around people's lives.
The founders' own experience of using dry cleaners and launderettes had not been great – too often they encountered limited opening hours and poor customer service. Laundry Republic makes users' dry cleaning and laundry easier, simpler and Greener. And perhaps even a bit more fun.
Laundry Republic's service has been featured in the Financial Times, The Times and on the BBC News website, among others.
Working for us is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growth Startup/scaleup environment. We’ve won a number of awards, including Best Online Dry Cleaning Service 2021, the Smarta 100, and the Santander Breakthrough 50. You’ll be working in a small, friendly team, gaining direct experience with senior people and the founders, in a fast paced, fun and market-leading company.
Salary:
£21k + depending on experience, plus competitive performance bonus, with potential for rapid progression.
Other benefits include company pension, childcare vouchers and a big staff discount on dry cleaning.
Location:
Based in Clapham / Balham. Includes regular travel across London.
The Role
You’ll be supporting senior management closely as they grow Laundry Republic by winning new business and marketing to existing customers.
The Business Development role is a key position in our business, supporting the senior team in researching, contacting, meeting, and then launching with new customers - the management teams of apartment blocks and offices. You’ll need to be ambitious, capable and as good at meeting new people as you are at keeping on top of things.
This is a rare opportunity to grow at the heart of one of London’s leading high-growth startups, playing a meaningful role in our growth while also being supported by an experienced team around you. We’re at a really great stage - young and small enough to retain a Startup culture, but large enough to give our employees the resources and support they need.
Prior experience of being client facing is beneficial. But no specific experience is required – your attitude and competence are much more important. We’ll provide full training.
And we’ll load you up with as much responsibility as you can handle, as soon as you’re ready. There’s lots to do in our growing business!
Core Duties:
New opportunity research – identifying relevant property managers, developers, residential buildings, large offices, and landlords whose tenants would benefit from Laundry Republic’s unique dry cleaning solution.
Develop expertise in using CRM system to maintain sales pipeline of leads and live targets.
Curate targeted emails to prospects to maximize response rates; undertake outgoing calls to support outreach.
Prepare materials for meetings and service launches – presentations and promotional material to make the most of new business opportunities.
Launching our service at new locations, training site staff and building relationships – being the face of the company for consumers and staff at new buildings
The Ideal Candidate
Ideally you’ll have some experience of being in people focused roles, for example account management or sales. We will consider other experience you deem to be relevant. The most important thing is that you love meeting new people and are up for working in a sales position.
Entrepreneurial and highly motivated: We’re growing fast and changing how London does dry cleaning. You’ll be deeply involved in that, and will need to have an entrepreneurial mindset and bags of motivation.
Charming and likeable. You’ll be calling and meeting both concierges and property managers. They’ll need to like you immediately, and want to use Laundry Republic!
Really organised: You’ll plan and do your work effectively, both independently and with management.
Proactive and resourceful: You don’t like hanging around waiting for things to happen – you get out there and make them happen.
Eligible to work, and get to work: Based within commuting distance of Clapham South, and eligible to work in the UK.
Please apply by sending us your CV and a short cover letter.