Business development - Assistant manager (global role – in a virtual working environment)

JR United Kingdom; Portsmouth; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services network is seeking a Business Development Assistant Manager in Portsmouth. The role includes supporting international growth, managing projects, and creating compelling content for client engagement. Ideal candidates will possess a degree or CIM qualification, strong organisational skills, and experience in professional services.

Qualifications

• Degree or professional marketing qualification (CIM) required.
• Experience in B2B environments and professional services is essential.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Support international growth and engage with global stakeholders.
• Create impactful content and manage multiple projects effectively.
• Lead best practices and ensure high-quality content delivery.

Skills

Organisational skills

Relationship building

Writing skills

Self-starter

Education

Degree or professional marketing qualification (CIM)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe products (e.g. InDesign)

Microsoft tech stack (SharePoint, Teams)

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Business development - Assistant manager (global role – in a virtual working environment), portsmouth, hampshire

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Client:

Grant Thornton International Ltd

Location:

portsmouth, hampshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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The role

Join our high performing team! Ideal for an business development associate/executive looking for a step up to assistant manager/senior executive role.

As a Senior associate, pursuit content within our International Business Support Function (IBSF) team, you will

• Support international growth, enabling our member firms to thrive internationally
• Create impactful content: deliver international pursuit-ready content that drives success
• Work across the whole pursuit process from pre-pitch to client engagement tools
• Lead best practices: identify and share innovative guidance
• Collaborate and engage globally with stakeholders across time zones, countries, regions, services and industries
• Manage multiple projects efficiently and track meaningful results
• Champion IBSF by helping raise awareness of all that IBSF stands for: we are dedicated to continuously improving member firm client experiences, and support global engagement leaders across various service lines and industries
• Contribute to our joint strategic execution objectives – we have a lot of exciting projects this year!

Skills required

• Degree, professional marketing qualification (such as CIM), or equivalent experience
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Excellent relationship building skills for engaging with global leaders
• Strong writing and editing skills for clear, compelling communications
• Self-starter with the confidence manage own projects and workload

Experience

• Experience in professional services, financial services, or other B2B environments
• Worked with fee earners, partners or other senior stakeholders
• Open-minded and inclusive approach to different disciplines and cultures
• Delivered client and market facing content (pursuits, bids, website content, capability statements, sales decks)
• Understand how to communicate to clients through features/benefits, getting to the heart of client needs
• Proven track record of content quality checking
• Curious and interested in business related topics and research
• Agile, positive and globally minded
• Proficient in Microsoft Office especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience with Microsoft tech stack (SharePoint, Teams, Planner, Outlook)
• Experience with Adobe products e.g. InDesign
• English critical and other languages an advantage

Our culture

There are many benefits of being part of Grant Thornton International, working with a global and diverse team in a virtual setting is just one of them. We pride ourselves on our inclusive culture and believe it's one of our most valuable assets. Our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect and responsibility are fundamental to how we interact across the whole Grant Thornton network. You will learn more about how our international culture charter applies to this role and how putting care at the heart of our network culture really unites us.

About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading professional services networks with member firms in over 150 countries, 76,000 people and global revenues of $8bn. Member firms offer audit, tax, and advisory services to privately owned companies, publicly listed companies, public sector and not for profit organisations, both domestically and internationally. In our Go Beyond network strategy 2025 our vision is to become ‘the most valued network in the profession’.