Head Of Business Development

Are you a commercially driven business development leader with a passion for building strategic partnerships, developing high-performing teams and driving sustainable revenue growth?

We're partnering with a leading organisation operating within the professional services space to appoint a Head of Business Development. This is a senior leadership opportunity responsible for shaping and delivering a national growth strategy, leading a geographically dispersed team and building relationships with some of the UK's most influential organisations.

The Opportunity

Reporting into a senior leadership team, you will be responsible for driving commercial growth, expanding strategic partnerships and increasing engagement with a portfolio of professional development and learning solutions.

Leading a team of Business Development Managers, you'll translate strategic objectives into tangible commercial outcomes through effective sales leadership, market insight and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and delivering the national business development strategy and sales targets.
• Leading, coaching and developing a team of four Business Development Managers.
• Driving the adoption and growth of professional learning and development solutions.
• Building and maintaining senior-level relationships with key clients and strategic partners.
• Identifying new market opportunities through commercial insight, data analysis and market intelligence.
• Working closely with marketing, product and regional teams to support growth initiatives.
• Owning pipeline management, forecasting and revenue reporting.
• Acting as an ambassador for the organisation with senior stakeholders across the professional services sector.
• Providing commercial insight and market intelligence to inform future growth strategies.

About You

We're keen to speak with candidates who can demonstrate:

• A proven track record in B2B business development or sales leadership.
• Strong people leadership experience, including managing remote and geographically dispersed teams.
• Commercial acumen and experience owning revenue targets and sales performance metrics.
• Outstanding relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to influence and engage senior decision-makers and executive-level stakeholders.
• A proactive, entrepreneurial and growth-focused mindset.

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