Business Development Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Specialist Financial Recruitment Limited

Specialist Financial Recruitment Limited

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our client helps some of the UK's best-known brands, works with the UK's public and private sector schemes, and the Wealth, Life and Pensions sector to manage complex administration and payments.

With skilled people and world class technology, our clientprovides personalised solutions to transform businesses and deliver the best customer outcomes.

The
Business Development Consultant is a newly created role, reporting into the Head of Business Development & Marketing, and working closely with and part of the Business Development team structure including Business Development Directorsand other Client Relationship Management heads across Wealth, Life and Pensions, Workplace Pensions and Strategic Accounts.

As the
Business Development Consultant, you will cover a combination of pre-sales, sales support and new opportunity bid support and help to shape an evolving and exciting end to end sales strategy to deliver new business targets and 5-yeargrowth plans.

As Business Development Consultant your responsibilities will include:

Conducting research to provide intelligence on your prospects
Maintaining data on key consultancies / market makers
Owning completion of market surveys
Creating presentations & briefings to consultancies / market makers
Providing support with specific client presentations, workshops, and information responses providing structure, management, and content maintenance
Demos, acting as 'business development owner' defining demo strategy, roadmap and driving its delivery; support with specific demo requests
Acting as business development lead and coordinator
Helping to write business development content within bids
Go to market activities including lead follow up, other lead generation, making contacts to secure meetings
Pipeline management
Events coordination as a conduit with Marketing to arrange attendance at events, assist with preparations, being present on event stands

We are looking for a Business Development Consultant who has the following skills and experiences:

A good understanding of the Wealth, Life & Pensions and/or Workplace Pensions industry is desirable but not essential. Similarly, knowledge of Third-Party Administration (TPA) / Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and the pension software environment wouldbe beneficial, however greater emphasis is placed on recruiting a bright and multifaceted individual who wants to learn quickly and embrace the opportunity to be part of an evolving and fast-moving sales team.
Some experience in a client facing role, or working closely with a sales and/or relationship team
An awareness of sales/development processes and marketing techniques
Experience of delivering excellence in response to owned deliverables and/or client expectations
Experience and comfort in working in a fast moving, matrix environment, that requires working with other teams and individuals across multiple product lines and sites
Good commercial and organisational awareness
Strong internal and external communication skills, verbal and written
Ability to communicate at different seniority levels including up to 'C" level
Strong attention to detail and a thorough approach to planning and implementation with an ability to multitask
An ability to work successfully remotely, coupled with the ability to travel to different locations for both client and team meetings

In return, the Business Development Consultant can expect a basic salary up to £50,000 with an additional bonus scheme, excellent benefits package, and a home working environment.

Above all else, you will have a superb opportunity to grow and develop yourcareer in sales with an innovative Fintech.