Top Business Development Jobs in London

Research and identify target companies, engage technical prospects through multichannel outreach, craft tailored messaging, qualify leads, and book meetings for Account Executives. The role requires understanding and communicating a technical platform’s value, collaborating with Marketing and RevOps on campaigns and events, and staying informed about distributed systems, testing, and reliability trends.

Drive new-business sales for SEI’s Wealth Platform across the UK wealth management market. Build executive relationships, generate leads, conduct consultative sales, manage procurement and decision-making processes, and close high-value outsourcing arrangements involving wealth technology, operations, or asset management. Provide market intelligence, coordinate with internal teams, and transition completed clients to relationship and service teams while managing relevant risks and regulatory responsibilities.

Develop new business across digital marketing and media, build early-stage client pipelines, and establish trusted relationships with senior decision-makers. Shape client needs, connect challenges to Kantar solutions, and lead proposals and pitches that generate revenue. The role requires market awareness, commercial influence, strong networking, and the ability to translate digital marketing challenges into compelling opportunities.

Generate inbound and outbound demand, research prospects, conduct discovery, and qualify opportunities using PACCT frameworks. Convert qualified meetings into pipeline, document actionable intelligence in Salesforce, and manage handoffs to Sales Specialists. Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on account targeting, lead quality, and campaign feedback. Maintain accurate CRM records, stay informed on industry trends, and continuously improve sales effectiveness.

Supports institutional investment business development by preparing proposals, RFP responses, pitches, and presentation materials. The role coordinates multiple stakeholders and deadlines, develops knowledge of investment solutions, contributes to product launches, marketing and go-to-market initiatives, and conducts market and competitor research. It also collaborates globally across investment, operations, client, sales, and consulting teams while helping improve business development processes.

Supports new business acquisition across the UK and Europe by maintaining sales pipeline data, researching prospects, coordinating outreach, managing media consultant relationships, supporting prospect meetings, and coordinating RFI/RFP responses. The role also involves preparing pitch and sales materials, tracking follow-up actions and deadlines, and collaborating with Marketing on external content. It is execution-focused and does not own business development strategy, revenue targets, or team management.

The Founding Business Development Representative will build and refine Rillet’s UK outbound sales motion, test messaging and channels, conduct personalised outreach, qualify prospects, and grow pipeline. The role involves engaging CFOs, finance leaders, and accounting teams, communicating Rillet’s ERP value proposition, running qualification calls, analysing outreach performance, and collaborating with GTM, Product, and leadership teams to establish the UK go-to-market foundation.

Develop and close new business opportunities for Analysys Mason’s research portfolio across technology-intensive industries. Responsibilities include building prospect pipelines, engaging senior and C-level stakeholders, understanding client priorities, presenting value-based solutions, expanding relationships into new buying centers, and collaborating with analysts, Sales, and Marketing teams. The role focuses on consultative research sales, relationship development, and revenue growth in largely untapped markets.

Drive revenue growth and acquire new DACH partners through territory planning, prospecting, pipeline development, forecasting, and sales-cycle management through contract close. Maintain existing accounts and support customer onboarding, implementation, retention, and revenue lifecycle management in collaboration with presales and partner success teams. The role requires German and English communication, CRM proficiency, negotiation, analytical skills, and independent, collaborative work.

Lead UK student recruitment through agent and partner relationship management, new business development, team leadership, KPI delivery, and conversion improvement. Analyze recruitment data, produce reports, ensure admissions compliance and data integrity, train staff and partners, resolve process issues, and support strategic planning. Build external networks, represent the university at events, improve service quality and brand reputation, and collaborate with admissions, quality assurance, finance, and student support teams. The role includes occasional travel and hybrid working.

Generate qualified sales pipeline by researching target accounts, identifying decision-makers, and executing phone-, LinkedIn-, and email-based outbound cadences. Qualify prospects, book meetings for account executives, maintain detailed account lists and call notes, and collaborate with Marketing to refine messaging and ideal customer profiles. Continuously improve prospecting performance, share market feedback, and explore creative methods such as events and new outbound approaches.

Manage inbound leads, conduct targeted outbound prospecting, research enterprise accounts, identify buying signals, maintain sales pipeline records, and qualify meetings into opportunities. The role uses AI-assisted research, account scoring, persona mapping, and tailored messaging to engage data science, machine learning, IT, security, and procurement stakeholders.

The Business Development Manager will acquire and implement new business accounts within a defined territory. Responsibilities include building prospect pipelines, winning new customers, negotiating pricing and margins, establishing customer relationships, increasing product penetration and profitability, and coordinating account handovers with Account Managers. The role requires B2B sales experience, achievement of sales targets, pipeline development, strong relationship-building skills, negotiation ability, and proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.

Develops new licensing partnerships across Lifestyle, Sports, and Fashion markets in EMEA. Responsibilities include researching prospects, conducting high-volume outbound outreach, building sales pipelines, creating pitch decks and business plans, negotiating licensing terms, coordinating agreements with legal counsel, managing CRM activity, forecasting sales, and achieving quotas. The role requires full-cycle licensing sales expertise, market and licensee knowledge, strong negotiation skills, occasional travel, and a bachelor's degree.

Drive new client acquisition and revenue growth for Avons Contract Manufacturing business. Manage prospecting, contract negotiation, onboarding, cross-functional coordination, production ramp-up, and performance monitoring to deliver sustainable volume and margin targets while maintaining high client satisfaction.

Drive new business growth in hospitality by selling networking solutions (IP networks, HSIA, IPTV). Manage pipeline, build customer relationships, prepare proposals, negotiate contracts, collaborate with internal teams, and represent the company at industry events.

Own top-of-funnel growth by generating and qualifying leads, converting inbound enquiries to opportunities, pitching products, and handing prospects to commercial managers. Collaborate with growth and commercial teams to embed repeatable BD practices, hit quarterly pipeline targets, and travel to the US and Europe for trade shows and networking.

Support evaluation and execution of strategic commercial and M&A opportunities across media, technology, and data. Build financial models and business cases, produce partner decks and term sheets, conduct due diligence and industry research, coordinate internal stakeholders for deal execution, maintain pipeline reporting, and develop external relationships to source and advance partnerships.

Drive pipeline growth across enterprise and mid-market accounts through outbound prospecting, lead qualification, and partnership with Account Executives. Manage territory and tailor messaging to technical and commercial stakeholders for a developer-focused Voice AI API. Use Salesforce, sequencing platforms, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and AI tools to research accounts, personalise outreach, and convert opportunities.

Own full sales cycle targeting Large-Enterprise organizations: prospecting, converting new clients, negotiating high-revenue deals, pipeline management, forecasting, quota attainment, and transitioning accounts to account management teams.

Generates new business opportunities for a data consultancy through research, outbound outreach, lead qualification, relationship building, and meeting scheduling. Maintains CRM records, supports pipeline development, engages data and technology stakeholders, and collaborates with senior sales and consulting teams. The role offers an entry point into technology sales with potential progression to Account Executive or Account Management positions.

Qualify inbound leads, prospect through cold calls, email, and LinkedIn, identify client needs, build relationships, and arrange meetings between prospective EMEA clients and Account Executives. Collaborate with Marketing on messaging, pursue new business opportunities, track sales results, stay informed about products and pricing, and achieve business development metrics and goals across multiple EMEA regions.

Lead and scale a geo-distributed BDR team: hire, coach, manage performance, run forecasting and reporting, design outbound playbooks and territory coverage, align with Sales and Marketing, and present results to founders.

Develops new business by identifying, qualifying, and onboarding clients for summit and event-based business development solutions. Responsibilities include cold calling C-level executives, conducting email and LinkedIn outreach, managing sales pipelines, providing targeted prospects, and nurturing client relationships. The role requires strong prospecting, communication, organization, resilience, and KPI discipline, with opportunities for international business travel and progression into management.

Drive adoption and revenue growth with existing small-to-medium Elavon customers through cross-sell and upsell. Own full-cycle sales from lead identification to contract and revenue realization, partner with Account Managers, execute campaign strategies, track opportunities in CRM, and ensure signed deals go live and ramp according to plan.