Senior Associate - Business Development

Senior Associate - Business Development Salary: £40,000 + benefits Location: London - hybrid

The opportunity

This is a role for an experienced, intellectually curious business developer who wants to immerse themselves in the UK's R&D and innovation ecosystem.

Our client works with some of the most exciting scale-up and technology-led businesses in the UK. Success in this role comes from insight, research and timing - not volume selling.

As a Senior Associate, you'll own and develop a high-quality pipeline of R&D-rich businesses, understanding their journey, innovation strategy and commercial drivers long before a deal closes.

What you'll be doing

• Building and managing a defined target list of 300-400 UK businesses
• Tracking trends across high-growth, unicorn and future-unicorn sectors
• Conducting thoughtful, multi-channel outreach (phone, email, events, social)
• Developing deep knowledge of target accounts and their innovation roadmap
• Delivering revenue against agreed annual targets
• Managing opportunities end-to-end through SalesLoft and MS Dynamics
• Writing and presenting tailored pitch documents
• Working closely with technical and delivery teams to shape opportunities
• Building strong working knowledge of R&D tax and Patent Box

About you

You're likely to be:

• An experienced BD professional in professional services, advisory or consultancy
• Comfortable with complex, high-value sales cycles
• Curious, commercially intelligent and well-researched in your approach
• Confident opening doors through insight rather than pressure
• Resilient, patient and motivated by long-term success

Experience with accounting, tax or scale-up businesses is desirable but not essential - mindset and quality of approach matter most.

What's on offer

• £40,000 salary
• Full technical and commercial training
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible benefits platform (5% salary contribution)
• Pension, life assurance & PMI (post-probation)
• Regular social events

To apply, please email a copy of your CV to Darren Dewrance of Aaron Wallis

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