About the Role
The Enterprise Business Development Lead is a commercially impactful role responsible for creating new routes to market through strategic enterprise partnerships. This role requires a natural hunter who can build credibility with senior decision-makers, turn ambitious ideas into revenue-generating partnerships, and accelerate customer growth by identifying, winning, and launching new enterprise partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Actively target and penetrate high-value enterprise prospects and identify new strategic opportunities.
- Own the complete sales cycle from initial outreach and discovery through to complex commercial negotiations, contracting, and signature.
- Collaborate with Product, Commercial, and Marketing teams to identify routes to market and shape bespoke commercial propositions.
- Model and forecast opportunities to ensure attractive commercial outcomes, balancing revenue potential against investment and implementation effort.
- Lead opportunities through to launch, ensuring excellent internal handovers and maintaining momentum.
- Continuously improve the process for identifying, pursuing, and converting enterprise partnership opportunities.
Requirements
- Exceptional ability to win complex enterprise deals.
- Comfortable developing partnership strategy, writing outreach, building commercial cases, and coordinating internal teams.
- Understanding that enterprise sales are won through persistence, credibility, and flawless execution.
- Proven track record of opening doors that initially appeared closed.
- Ability to build relationships with C-suite executives and senior decision-makers.
- Ability to create opportunities where others see obstacles.
- Ability to identify the right target accounts, segment markets, and craft compelling value propositions.
- Experience creating business development content, campaigns, or working with Marketing to develop high-performing outreach is highly desirable.
- Ability to comfortably engage CEOs, Commercial Directors, Partnership Directors, and Product leaders.
- Ability to drive momentum from first conversation to successful launch.
- Obsession with execution, maintaining pace, and ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
- Ability to navigate a fast-moving business and bring together Product, Technology, Marketing, Legal, and Operations behind a common commercial goal.
- Ability to build compelling business cases and influence priorities through commercial value.
- Ability to create momentum without relying on hierarchy or bureaucracy.
Skills
- Commercial modelling and deal structuring
- Complex enterprise negotiation
- Strong understanding of APIs, embedded solutions, and technology ecosystems
- Exceptional value proposition design
- Outstanding stakeholder management and project execution
- Excellent segmentation, account planning, and enterprise prospecting capability
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5–10 years’ experience in Enterprise Business Development or Strategic Partnerships
- Significant experience securing enterprise-level partnerships
- Proven track record of personally originating, negotiating, and closing major corporate partnerships
- Experience selling into large organisations with multiple stakeholders and complex buying processes
Salary/Compensations
- £1m–£3m per deal in annualised revenue potential from newly signed enterprise partnerships
- £8m–£15m qualified pipeline generated annually
Benefits
- Private healthcare cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
- Eyecare scheme
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with tenure
- 1 paid family & religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
- 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
- Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
- Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
- Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
- Long service awards
About the Company
- At Bionic, we make life radically easier for small business owners by simplifying essential services such as energy, insurance, finance, and connectivity.
- We support more than 230,000 customers across the UK and are proud to serve the backbone of the British economy.
- Our mission is to remove complexity so small businesses can focus on what they do best.
- We're driven by our DNA values: We're One Team, We Make a Difference and We Push for Greatness.
