Business Development Director – High-Net-Worth Client Engagement – £Competitive – London
This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing, relationship-led business operating within a highly affluent and influential client environment, offering significant earning potential and long-term career growth.
Our client is an ambitious and entrepreneurial organisation with an established reputation for building long-term relationships with high-net-worth individuals, founders, executives, and influential private networks. Operating within a discreet, premium, and highly relationship-driven market, the business has experienced strong organic growth and is now seeking an exceptional Business Development Director to help accelerate its next phase of expansion.
This role is ideally suited to a commercially driven and highly networked individual who thrives in relationship-led environments and understands how to engage sophisticated, high-value clients. The successful candidate may come from financial services, private client, luxury, membership, property, hospitality, or other high-end consultative sales environments.
The role
- Identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities across high-net-worth and influential private networks
- Build trusted long-term relationships with successful individuals, entrepreneurs, executives, and senior decision-makers
- Develop proactive outreach and engagement strategies to drive commercial growth
- Represent the business at private events, networking functions, and high-level introductions
- Maintain consistent relationship management with both prospective and existing clients
- Work closely with senior leadership to support long-term commercial strategy and expansion
- Contribute to the continued growth of a premium, relationship-driven brand and client offering
Skills and Experience Required
- Proven success within high-value business development, relationship management, or consultative sales environments
- Experience engaging high-net-worth individuals, senior executives, founders, or private client networks
- Strong commercial instincts with the ability to build trust and influence at senior levels
- Highly personable, polished, and credible communicator
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong self-motivation and ambition
- A strong existing network and natural ability to generate introductions and opportunities
- Comfortable operating within premium, relationship-led environments where discretion and professionalism are essential
- Financial services experience may be advantageous but is not essential
This is an outstanding opportunity for a commercially ambitious and relationship-oriented individual to join a highly entrepreneurial business at an exciting stage of growth. The role offers significant long-term potential, strong earning capability, and the opportunity to work within an influential and high-performing network.
The position is based in London and offers a competitive salary and package dependent on experience.
Portman Scott is a highly respected boutique specialist sales recruitment consultancy founded by two highly successful professionals who previously built their own sales teams. All enquiries will be treated with absolute confidentiality. Only candidates currently residing and authorised to work in the UK will be considered.
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