Business Development Manager

Role: Business Development Manager

Location: Bristol or London

Hybrid: Yes

We’re building a team of passionate Sales and Business Development professionals! Currently recruiting for Sales Development Representative (SDR), Business Development Managers (BDM), and a Business Development Director (BDD).

As Business Development Manager, reporting into the Business Development Director you’ll play a key role in identifying and nurturing leads, crafting tailored proposals, and supporting pitches to secure new business. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives on building strong client relationships and closing deals.

If you're ambitious, driven, and ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the Business Development Director in executing new business strategy, ensuring alignment with internal goals
• Produce and maintain target lists of potential new clients by aligning our expertise with established market needs
• Proactively approaching potential new clients through email, telephone, LinkedIn, and other channels to secure qualified meetings and build relationships
• Leading initial client conversations, ensuring a deep understanding of their challenges and goals
• Preparing tailored proposals and delivering presentations to potential clients that clearly demonstrate the value of our services
• Collaborating with the wider team to contribute content and insights for proposals, tender responses, bids, and pitches
• Supporting the conversion of active leads into new client partnerships, working closely with our Business Development Director and delivery teams

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in lead generation, with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets
• Strong background in sales or business development, ideally within consulting, design, or technology environments
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with prospective clients
• Skilled in creating compelling proposals and delivering engaging presentations that secure business opportunities
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple opportunities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Creative thinker with the ability to articulate innovative ideas tailored to client needs
• A team player who collaborates effectively with internal teams to deliver outstanding results
• Commercially astute, understanding the broader context of client challenges and aligning solutions accordingly
• Resilient and self-motivated, with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Experience with researching and responding to tender opportunities (desirable not essential)
  

If you’re excited about working for us but don’t have all the relevant skills, we would still love to hear from you. We are all the better because of the many diverse backgrounds our employees have so don't let not ticking every box hold you back, give it a go!

About Nomensa

Nomensa is an internationally renowned digital experience agency. Through research, psychology, interaction design and technology, we create world class digital experiences.

We work with a range of clients across multiple sectors to design inclusive digital experiences that help millions of people. We’re experts in web accessibility. From blue chips to start-ups, from Deliveroo to the NHS, whatever the sector, we deliver experience excellence.

About Sideshow Group

We are part of the Sideshow Group, a community of highly connected digital brands, each built on a foundation of expertise in digital and marketing services. We collaborate closely with our Sideshow community, more specifically Access, Catch and Bunnyfoot. This means we can offer much more to clients in the depth and breadth of services, and to our people in the range of opportunities to share knowledge, learn and grow.

We’re on a journey to grow as one brand, streamlining to become more unified. As we evolve, we’re focused on building a resilient, agile team to shape this next chapter. There’s still work to be done to achieve our full potential, but we’re confident in our direction. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of something new and make a meaningful impact.

We're currently re-vamping our benefits package. While we finalise the details, we’d love to hear what’s important to you—please apply and chat to a member of our People Team at the telephone screening!

Application process

Closing date for applications: Friday 28th February

• Upload your CV and cover letter
• Call with a member of the People Team (15 – 30 minutes). This is informal, we’ll mostly discuss ambitions and salary expectations
• 1st stage interview: 45-minute video call with the hiring manager
• 2nd stage interview: 60-minute in person interview with hiring manager and MD, depending on location

Reasonable adjustments

Please let us know if any adjustments can be made to help you during application, interview or employment.

We are “disability confident employer” working to identify and remove barriers to inclusive hiring. If you want to apply or learn more about the job but the online format is not helpful for you, please call Corrie (People Partner) on 0117 929 7333  or send an email to clloyd@nomensa.com. We aim to respond to these requests within 48hrs of receipt and will ensure your application remains in the pipeline if the application has closed before you receive a response.

We are at the early stages of our disability confident journey and there will be times when we don’t always get it right. To help identify these times (as well as the times we do!), we offer various routes for all employees to continuously feedback on their employment experience, whether about disability or more generally, so together we can develop a genuinely inclusive workplace for all.

If successfully employed, please raise any reasonable adjustments with your line manager, alternatively you can discuss directly with the people team who will be happy to support.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.