Business Development Representative

Company: Strive Sa
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Location: London
Job Description:

Our Client is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. They automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

About the Role

  • As one of the first members of the Business Development team in their London office, you will be focused on building presence in the European market.
  • In this high-velocity, high-impact role, you’ll hunt sales opportunities and quickly qualify, prioritize, and convert expressed interest into high-quality pipeline. Strong execution is critical, but so is strategic thinking.
  • Their sales organization is looking for someone who is self-motivated and has a natural inclination for selling – a builder who can perform in ambiguity.
  • As part of the early-stage team, you’ll act as the initial point of contact in prospecting and qualifying leads, and help design qualification frameworks that will scale with the team.

What You’ll Do

  • Respond to and qualify high-volume inbound leads via multi-channel outreach with urgency and precision

  • Source new business opportunities across the United Kingdom/Ireland through outbound prospecting and outreach

  • Conduct consultative discovery to understand prospect pain points, priorities, and intent

  • Partner closely with Account Executives to on opportunities and support deal expansion

  • Maintain accurate and detailed activity, notes, and pipeline data in Salesforce

  • Continuously refine talk tracks, objection handling, and discovery techniques based on performance data and feedback

  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records within Salesforce

  • Work closely with our GM Europe on highest priority GTM initiatives

What You Need

  • Right to work in the UK is required

  • AI fluency as a daily habit. Our Client is a builder culture: if you don’t instinctively reach for AI before doing things manually, this role will be a hard adjustment.

  • Strong written and verbal communication

  • Dedication to consistent self-improvement

  • Self-starter with a high sense of urgency

  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment

  • Ability to work 5x a week in office, in London, United Kingdom

Nice to Haves

  • Fluency in additional European languages

  • Experience in a high-growth startup, consulting, VC, IB/PE, or other analytically intensive environments

  • Previous experience in a customer-facing, business development, or inside sales role, ideally within a fast-paced environment

  • Prior CRM experience (preferably Salesforce)

  • Demonstrated ability to build or improve processes or workflows in a prior role

Benefits available to all full-time Employees (Global)

  • Flexible PTO

  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering

  • Health and wellness stipend

  • Budget for intra-office travel

  • Weekly coffee stipend

United Kingdom

  • Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

  • Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi

  • Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

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Posted: October 23rd, 2026