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Business Development Manager (London)
Ideals
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · On-site (see listing for address)
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Key details
- Proactively build and manage a pipeline focused on acquiring new strategic enterprise accounts (new logos)
- Conduct solution-based sales engagements, including client meetings, executive presentations, and product demonstrations (face-to-face and virtual)
- Maintain "White Space" analysis and execute strategic initiatives to upsell and cross-sell within the existing customer base
- Develop and deliver comprehensive business cases that quantify the cost of inaction and address customer priorities, pain points, and ROI
- Structure, negotiate, and close complex deals, guiding corporate clients through enterprise procurement, security compliance, and legal processes
- Orchestrate multi-threading strategies to navigate enterprise politics and establish relationships with C-Suite executives and key stakeholders
- Keep an accurate track record of personal sales activities in the CRM, including methodical mid- and long-term forecasting
- Provide relevant customer feedback to the product development team and collaborate with Customer Success, Marketing, and Inbound Sales
- Company mission
- Ideals is a market-leading VDR business powering global M&A activity, profitable and bootstrapped, targeting 5x revenue growth and unicorn status in the next five years
Benefits
- Strong Sales Enablement, RevOps, Marketing support, and a structured onboarding ramp
- Join a team of 10+ Key Accounts teammates in London
- Great Place To Work® Certified in the UK (2026)
- Top 10% ranking among 15,000+ sales organizations on RepVue
Requirements & details
- 4–7 years of demonstrable quota-carrying success in B2B sales
- Proven track record of managing lengthy or complex enterprise sales cycles
- Significant experience selling directly to C-level executives (CxOs) and multi-threading within large enterprise organizations
- Clear understanding of and practical experience with consultative sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDIC/MEDPIC, SPIN, Challenger)
- Exceptional business communication skills for executive storytelling, challenging the status quo, and complex contracting negotiations
- High learning agility, analytical thinking, and commercial curiosity to quickly grasp nuances of various corporate industries
- High AI fluency and advanced CRM tracking skills
- Native-level proficiency in English
- fluency in an additional language
- background in SaaS, financial technology, or information security sectors
- familiarity with enterprise M&A use cases and corporate
- Based in London
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