Strategic Business Development Manager

3 weeks ago


Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom NCC Group Full time

Role: Senior Business Development Manager – Emerging Markets

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Business Development Manager to join our Sales team and drive high-impact growth initiatives with key industry clients.

This is a senior-level role for a dynamic professional who excels in managing complex, high-stakes deals and building long-term partnerships with major corporate players.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a visionary leader with a passion for strategic business development and a proven ability to deliver outstanding results.

  • Lead business development efforts with high-profile, strategic industry clients, developing tailored solutions to meet their business objectives and growth strategies.
  • Formulate and execute long-term strategic plans aimed at securing large, multi-year contracts and complex partnerships with key industry players.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives and senior stakeholders, delivering insightful market analysis, strategic recommendations and bespoke business solutions.
  • Oversee the entire sales cycle of high-value deals, including lead identification, relationship building, negotiations, closing and delivery, ensuring alignment with the company's financial and strategic goals.
  • Collaborate closely with the executive leadership team to shape overall business development strategy, ensuring alignment with broader corporate objectives.
  • Foster strong, long-term relationships with key accounts, ensuring client satisfaction, repeat business, and contract renewals.
  • Serve as a mentor and leader to junior business development team members, providing guidance, training, and support to help them achieve their potential.
  • Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and forums, positioning NCC Group as a thought leader and trusted partner in the industry.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Demonstrable experience in senior business development roles, with a proven track record of managing and closing large-scale, strategic deals in the UK market.
  • Exceptional relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate at C-suite and executive levels.
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to identify new business opportunities, create comprehensive growth plans, and lead high-value negotiations.
  • Extensive knowledge of CRM systems, business intelligence tools, and financial modelling to assess opportunities.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape.

We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference.

We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.



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