Avoid sales team - Busines Development Beauhurst Employee Review

1.0
10 Jul 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Some friendly people and some nice benefits

Cons

They decided to hire 3 new trainee graduate BDAs and then sacked us all one by one within 3-4months, no real warning and done very insensitively. Sales team management very inexperienced and blamed the new BDAs for their whole sales team being behind on target. Do not train here for your first salez job, you will not be supported. Worst experience ive ever had with an employer.

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Beauhurst Response
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Thanks for taking the time to write a review. We’re sorry you didn’t enjoy your experience of a target-driven role at Beauhurst, although we don’t believe this is a fair representation of what happened, or of our Sales team. Within all of our commercial teams, we work hard to make targets clear and achievable, and do everything we can to support the team in achieving them. For those within their first months of the role, this includes: daily support from their manager; a huge knowledge bank full of guidance and advice; and a friendly, lively and experienced office-based team who are always on hand to offer advice and feedback. During recent months, we have also put our entire team through extensive external training to further refine and improve how we go about selling. Our Sales managers would never blame any individual employee for the team’s overall performance, and are hugely committed to each individual’s success. This has contributed to a number of our sales team achieving incredible results, including some recent joiners who had never done a sales role before! We’re really sorry that you have been left feeling this way about your time at Beauhurst – if you would like to give us any more detailed feedback, please get in touch with us at [operations@beauhurst.com](mailto:operations@beauhurst.com).

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