Business Development Manager

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Key Info

  • Role: Business Development Manager
  • Salary: Base salary £60k + bonus. OTE £90k.
  • Start Date: Flexible, but we are looking for someone to join as soon as possible.
  • Reporting into: Managing Director
  • Based in: Soho, London with regular travel to client sites across the UK.
  • Minimum onsite requirement: 3 days per week onsite – meetings with clients or at our Sysdoc office.

About the Role

Build trusted relationships with business leaders and stakeholders, understand their organisational needs, and position Sysdoc solutions accordingly.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a qualified pipeline aligned to annual revenue and margin targets, leading prospect engagement, discovery conversations, needs analysis, proposal development and commercial negotiations.
  • Drive growth within existing accounts via strategic account planning, identifying expansion, cross‑sell and repeat business opportunities, while building trusted senior stakeholder relationships and ensuring client satisfaction.
  • Proactively identify, qualify and progress new business opportunities in agreed target markets.
  • Represent Sysdoc as a brand ambassador, translate market trends and client challenges into differentiated propositions, provide regular pipeline reporting and forecasting, and maintain focus on revenue and margin performance.
  • Provide oversight of safe, high‑quality delivery across allocated accounts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and to agreed standards, with clear objectives and success measures.
  • Facilitate regular project check‑ins, remove delivery barriers, coordinate resourcing and forward planning, monitor utilisation and forecasting, mitigate risks and issues, and support consultant engagement and performance feedback.

Personal Attributes

  • Highly professional and credible in client‑facing environments.
  • Strategic thinker with commercial acumen.
  • Resilient and target‑driven.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong organisational and follow‑through skills.

Must have

  • 5+ years experience in sales & account management.
  • 2+ years experience working in consulting, professional services, advisory, or solutions‑based environments.
  • Experience managing a portfolio of client accounts – demonstrated ability to retain and expand accounts through understanding customer needs and delivering solutions.
  • Ability to build trusted advisor relationships and manage stakeholders from operational to executive levels.
  • Experience managing mid‑to‑senior level client stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of meeting revenue targets and growing existing accounts.
  • Ability to identify upsell and cross‑sell opportunities (solution‑led, not transactional).
  • Data‑driven mindset – comfortable analysing sales metrics and KPIs.
  • Experience creating proposals, pricing structures, and contracts.
  • Experience leading contract negotiation processes.

Advantageous

  • Experience in key industries: defence, engineering, manufacturing, retail.
  • Experience in a hybrid hunter/farmer role.
  • Experience in international markets.
  • Previous SME/start‑up or high‑growth company experience.
  • Existing network within the target industry.

What Success Looks like in this Role

  • Grow revenue within assigned accounts through cross‑sell and upsell.
  • Leverage your network to identify and land new accounts.
  • Maintain strong client retention and satisfaction.
  • Develop strategic, long‑term partnerships.
  • Proactively identify consulting opportunities aligned with client business goals.
  • Collaborate internally with consultants to ensure delivery excellence.

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Annual wellbeing allowance.
  • Health cashback plan.
  • PerkBox.
  • Award‑winning Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
  • 2 × paid volunteering days each year.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Life insurance.
  • Stakeholder pension.
  • Access to our Soho office and 14 other Work-Life locations across the UK.
  • Regular Winter and Summer celebrations.

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Key Info

  • Role: Business Development Manager
  • Salary: Base salary £60k + bonus. OTE £90k.
  • Start Date: Flexible, but we are looking for someone to join as soon as possible.
  • Reporting into: Managing Director
  • Based in: Soho, London with regular travel to client sites across the UK.
  • Minimum onsite requirement: 3 days per week onsite – meetings with clients or at our Sysdoc office.

About the Role

Build trusted relationships with business leaders and stakeholders, understand their organisational needs, and position Sysdoc solutions accordingly.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a qualified pipeline aligned to annual revenue and margin targets, leading prospect engagement, discovery conversations, needs analysis, proposal development and commercial negotiations.
  • Drive growth within existing accounts via strategic account planning, identifying expansion, cross‑sell and repeat business opportunities, while building trusted senior stakeholder relationships and ensuring client satisfaction.
  • Proactively identify, qualify and progress new business opportunities in agreed target markets.
  • Represent Sysdoc as a brand ambassador, translate market trends and client challenges into differentiated propositions, provide regular pipeline reporting and forecasting, and maintain focus on revenue and margin performance.
  • Provide oversight of safe, high‑quality delivery across allocated accounts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and to agreed standards, with clear objectives and success measures.
  • Facilitate regular project check‑ins, remove delivery barriers, coordinate resourcing and forward planning, monitor utilisation and forecasting, mitigate risks and issues, and support consultant engagement and performance feedback.

Personal Attributes

  • Highly professional and credible in client‑facing environments.
  • Strategic thinker with commercial acumen.
  • Resilient and target‑driven.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong organisational and follow‑through skills.

Must have

  • 5+ years experience in sales & account management.
  • 2+ years experience working in consulting, professional services, advisory, or solutions‑based environments.
  • Experience managing a portfolio of client accounts – demonstrated ability to retain and expand accounts through understanding customer needs and delivering solutions.
  • Ability to build trusted advisor relationships and manage stakeholders from operational to executive levels.
  • Experience managing mid‑to‑senior level client stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of meeting revenue targets and growing existing accounts.
  • Ability to identify upsell and cross‑sell opportunities (solution‑led, not transactional).
  • Data‑driven mindset – comfortable analysing sales metrics and KPIs.
  • Experience creating proposals, pricing structures, and contracts.
  • Experience leading contract negotiation processes.

Advantageous

  • Experience in key industries: defence, engineering, manufacturing, retail.
  • Experience in a hybrid hunter/farmer role.
  • Experience in international markets.
  • Previous SME/start‑up or high‑growth company experience.
  • Existing network within the target industry.

What Success Looks like in this Role

  • Grow revenue within assigned accounts through cross‑sell and upsell.
  • Leverage your network to identify and land new accounts.
  • Maintain strong client retention and satisfaction.
  • Develop strategic, long‑term partnerships.
  • Proactively identify consulting opportunities aligned with client business goals.
  • Collaborate internally with consultants to ensure delivery excellence.

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Annual wellbeing allowance.
  • Health cashback plan.
  • PerkBox.
  • Award‑winning Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
  • 2 × paid volunteering days each year.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Life insurance.
  • Stakeholder pension.
  • Access to our Soho office and 14 other Work-Life locations across the UK.
  • Regular Winter and Summer celebrations.

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Posted: May 8th, 2026