Business Development Manager

Company: Vertical Advantage
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you drive new business growth for a fast-growing, purpose-led rewards and engagement business. You own the front end of the sales process, building a strong pipeline across multiple solutions. You engage senior stakeholders and shape commercially compelling offerings to win long-term partnerships. This is a dynamic, cross-functional role in a B Corp environment, offering impact and ownership over market growth.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and develop new business opportunities across target sectors
  • Build and manage a strong pipeline through proactive outbound activity
  • Leverage phone, email, LinkedIn and networking to generate opportunities
  • Manage full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiation and close
  • Engage senior stakeholders across Commercial, Marketing, Customer Experience, Loyalty and Procurement
  • Develop understanding of client challenges and craft commercially compelling solutions
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Operations and Product teams to support opportunities

Key requirements

  • Strong track record in B2B new business sales
  • Comfortable in a proactive, high-energy environment
  • Experience in Rewards and incentives, Loyalty and customer engagement, Promotional marketing, Employee engagement and recognition, Gift cards and voucher solutions, Customer acquisition and retention solutions, SaaS or technology-enabled platforms
  • Ability to identify, open conversations and convert opportunities into long-term relationships
  • Proactive and high-energy
  • Strong communication and relationship-building
  • Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
  • Outbound sales techniques
  • Using phone, email and LinkedIn for prospecting
  • SaaS or technology-enabled platforms (explicitly mentioned)

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Posted: September 25th, 2026