Placement Year – Junior Business Development Representative
Drive outbound sales and lead generation for NORNORM's circular office furniture subscriptions – turning first contact into booked meetings and real opportunities in our UK expansion.
Are you looking to kickstart your career in sales during your placement year and join a fast-growing company making real change? At NORNORM, we help organisations create more flexible and sustainable office spaces. The UK is a key growth market for us – and we’re looking for someone to help us spread the word and uncover new business opportunities.
About NORNORM
NORNORM is a circular scale-up transforming traditional office environments. We specialise in sustainable office furniture and offer a unique subscription model that keeps furniture in circulation between partners, extending its lifespan and supporting flexible, modern ways of working.
About the Role
As a Junior Business Development Representative on placement, you’ll play a vital role within our sales team, helping to identify and engage potential clients as part of our UK expansion. You’ll focus on outbound sales and lead generation – making first contact, generating interest, and booking meetings that move the sales process forward.
Key responsibilities:
Proactive outreach – Identify and reach out to decision-makers at relevant organisations via phone, email, and other platforms.
Lead qualification – Understand where NORNORM can add the most value and prioritise the right opportunities.
Meeting booking – Maintain a healthy pipeline of qualified leads for the wider sales team.
Relationship nurturing – Stay in touch with potential clients to build trust and keep momentum going.
About You
This role is open to students undertaking a sandwich year, as well as recent graduates looking to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, high-impact sales environment. What matters most is your energy, drive, and curiosity about sales and business development.
We’re looking for someone who is:
Results-driven – Motivated by tangible outcomes and building strong client connections.
Proactive – Comfortable initiating conversations and identifying new opportunities.
A confident communicator – Able to speak with stakeholders at all levels and adapt your style accordingly.
Organised and strategic – You bring structure to your approach and always keep your eye out for the next opportunity.
What We Offer
At NORNORM, you’ll get the opportunity to launch your career in one of Europe’s most exciting growth businesses. Here’s what you can expect:
Responsibility from day one – A chance to make a real impact in growing our presence across London and the UK.
Career progression – Join a supportive, ambitious team with lots of room to learn and develop.
A strong culture – Our values are: We care, we dare, we do, we make simple easy – and we live them every day.
Ready to join the journey?
If this sounds like the role for you, send us your application today and help us make UK offices more sustainable and flexible.
- Department
- Region - UK
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
London
Our success depends on a strong corporate culture
We’ve taken on a great challenge: to re-invent the furniture industry.
Our mission is to create millions of workspaces that inspire people to do the best work of their lives. And we want our customers to experience that everything we do simply works.
Our success will depend partly on external factors, such as market maturity and competitors. But our success will also depend on the corporate culture we manage to build.
We define culture as “the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that determine how we interact as colleagues and as business partners”.
Our KEY CULTURAL ASPIRATIONS are:
- Attracting and keeping highly talented and effective individuals who find that their time at NORNORM is time well spent.
- Teamwork fuelled by the synergy that comes from constructive contributions between passionate and skilled people who actively seek out each the perspectives of each other.
- Having the courage and stamina to be a game changer in the furniture industry.
OUR CORE VALUES are described as follow:
WE CARE
WE DARE
WE DO
WE MAKE SIMPLE - EASY
You will help shape our culture. There is work to be done every single day by all of us to continuously build a strong and positive culture. Every person who joins us helps to shape and evolve the culture further.
About NORNORM
Our vision for the workplace of the future is simple: integrate circularity into its foundation and demonstrate how it can benefit individuals, design, business practices and the environment.
Our fully integrated service covers everything from initial workspace design, installation, continuously adapting layouts, to the repair and replacement of all our "better-than-new" pieces. All this to ensure a workspace continuously maximises impact without compromising on it's benefits for people, your business or the planet.
Placement Year – Junior Business Development Representative
Drive outbound sales and lead generation for NORNORM's circular office furniture subscriptions – turning first contact into booked meetings and real opportunities in our UK expansion.
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