Business Development Associate
About the Role
As a Business Development Manager at Dévorer , you will support existing client and operator relationships while forming new partnerships across universities, catering operators, councils, landlords, and institutional partners.
This role requires someone with a strong sales background, excellent organisation, willingness to travel frequently, and confidence working with data, SaaS tools, CRM systems, ML, and LLMs.
Salary: £40,000–£50,000 (plus performance-based incentives)
Candidate Profile & Responsibilities
- Strong sales and business development background, ideally within contract catering, hospitality, foodservice, and/or SaaS
- Support and strengthen existing client, operator, and partner relationships
- Identify and pursue new partnership opportunities across universities, catering operators, councils, landlords, and institutional clients
- Very comfortable using Canva and Figma for visual presentations
- Work with AI and ML-supported data analysis systems
- Manage CRM and workflow systems such as Monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Airtable, or Notion
- Work closely with operations, marketing, and data teams to align campaigns, activations, and service delivery
- At least intermediary-level understanding of AI, LLMs, ML systems, automation tools, SaaS platforms, and data-driven operational infrastructure
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Ability to manage long institutional sales cycles involving procurement, commercial, estates, and operational stakeholders
- Experience or interest in SaaS, analytics
- Entrepreneurial and proactive mindset, comfortable operating within a fast-growing startup environment
- Willingness to travel frequently across the UK for meetings, site visits, activations, and industry events
- Strong interest in hospitality innovation, consumer behaviour, food trends, sustainability, and data-led operations
- Existing network across hospitality, catering, higher education, councils, or commercial real estate would be highly advantageous