Senior Associate - Business Development
  • England,London,City of London
  • Full Time, Permanent
  • £40,000 - £41,000 per annum, OTE, inc benefits, negotiable
Job Description:
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
This vacancy is being advertised by Aaron Wallis Recruitment and Training Limited operating as an Employment Agency, registered in England No. 6356563. View our Privacy Policy and Candidate Privacy Notice
Job number 3359111

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