Your Role and What You'll Be DoingReporting into the Head of Business Development, the Business Development Manager is responsible for developing the strategy, planning and managing business development activity and pipeline to support business growth and ensure outcomes are delivered to achieve business and strategic goals for their aligned business unit.As part of the Marketing and Business Development Team this role working collaboratively and closely with Marketing colleagues, particularly the Acquisition and Campaigns Team, will support and be responsible in both acquiring and nurturing growth from new and existing relationships, duties will include, but not limited to: Responsibility, leadership and implementation of business development strategies for the aligned business unit with the strategic aim of maximising profitable revenue, building new business pipelines and meeting more needs for existing relationshipsWork collaboratively with other Business Development Managers across all Business Units to identify, drive and maximise opportunities in each marketUtilising reporting systems, new business dashboards and data insights for ROI to include tracking and monitoring of activityDedicated time in market, identifying opportunities, attending meetings to win new clients and developing new relationships – leading to strategic profitable growthHave an understanding of the Groups legal and financial services and products in order to advise others and promote/sell to external clientsPreparing business cases and proposals to support opportunities that drive growthResponsible for assigned key accounts/intermediaries/panels/partnerships to support growth, with action plans to achieve appropriate objectives, research and knowledge sharing across the firmDeveloping presentations and proposal documents and accompany partners on new business pitches where appropriate in conjunction within the Bids and Acquisitions TeamNew Propositions: Support the launch and adoption of new propositions and packagesTo be the expert voice and representation of the client in the relevant market to ensure our approach is relevant facilitate an account management role and act as sponsor of workWork alongside our Responsible Business Team to bring the Responsible Business strategy to life through business development identifying new opportunities to create new relationships or partnerships and using it to help build relationships with existing clients and contacts.
About YouWe're looking for an experienced Business Development Manager who experience achieving business development targets, is personable and results driven.
Our ideal candidate will have the following: Good in written communications with an eye for the detailDemonstrable experience working in a business development or sales and marketing roleThe ability to interpret and make good use of data to make sound decisions and encourages others to do soDeonstrable experience and ability to be proactive and engaged in external market, developing relationships with clients, contacts or intermediariesIs obsessive about client care and constantly seeks to delight the client.
Will leads by personal example and encourage others to give outstanding client serviceDemonstrable experience of working in a market facing, multi-disciplined marketing and business development team in a medium/large organisationIs hugely flexible, collaborative and creative and will thrive on change, challenges the status quo and constantly looks for new opportunities to do things better.
If this sounds like you and you want to join a thriving team hit the apply button below for consideration!Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.Generous and flexible pension schemes.Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported.
This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose.
We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are.
It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.