Business Development Manager

The Role

Direct to Brand (D2B) Sales

• Identifying and targeting brand-side prospects directly: in-house marketing, creative and content teams
• Building and owning a pipeline of D2B leads across key sectors, including healthcare, sport and emerging tech industries
• Pitching Graceful Monkey’s services confidently and with conviction: in person, over the phone and on a deck
• Reconnecting with dormant brand contacts and finding new routes into existing client organisations
• Attending industry events and conferences to represent the brand and build genuine relationships
• Facilitating referrals and making word-of-mouth work hard for us

Marketing & Brand Visibility

• Overseeing targeted outreach campaigns to key brand-side decision-makers
• Overseeing or advising on our social channels to keep us active, relevant and growing
• Staying across the industry groups, lists and platforms where our next client might be looking
• Working with the team to identify new sectors where our “simplify the complex” approach is a natural fit
• Building a repeatable, consistent sales process, not just chasing the next brief
• Managing and automating our CRM process, and keeping the team informed on pipeline status
• Collaborating with production and creative leadership to ensure pitches are sharp and proposals land well
• Feeding market intelligence back into the business: what brands need, what’s shifting, and where the opportunities are

Your Story

• A genuine network of brand-side contacts, and the hunger and skill to expand it
• Solid experience in business development, account management or client liaison, ideally developing services or solutions, with a bonus if they’re creatively based
• A great communicator and team player (fluent English is essential)
• A desire for genuine growth: through helping and solving, not selling quick and dirty
• Positive, authentic and articulate: people buy into personality and honesty
• Friendly, candid and reliable: clients return when they know we don’t let them down or BS them to get a sale
• You back yourself, and your team
• An interest in (or knowledge of) CG, VR/AR, interactive or live events is a real advantage
• Social media savvy: you know how to use LinkedIn to build networks, rather than as a spam machine to “pitch-slap” people
• An always-on mindset: ready to act fast when the moment calls for it
• We’re open to part-time working (careers don’t have to be limited by family commitments)

Our Backstage

• We’re based in London E10
• An open and collaborative work ethic
• Base salary + a strong commission structure based on revenue and repeat business
• A performance-led bonus
• Flexible working after probation (minimum 3 days a week in the office)
• 31 holiday days per year (inc. public holidays) + your birthday off

PLEASE NOTE: You must be eligible to work in the UK. No agencies, thank you.

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