Business Development Manager - Private Capital Audit

Grant Thornton; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton seeks a Business Development Manager in Bristol to drive growth in the Private Capital Audit team. This role involves transforming business development strategies, overseeing key relationships, and contributing to the firm’s growth targets through a proactive approach and effective stakeholder management. Flexibility in location is offered, with a national remit suggesting potential travel.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Inclusive culture

Ongoing development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in professional services required.
• Background in marketing, BD, account management or sales operations needed.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Transform business development for mid-market audit team.
• Support audit leaders in identifying new markets.
• Champion best practices across Private Capital Audit practice.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Sales

Lead generation

Project management

Resilience

Tenacity

Tools

CRM systems

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29.06.2025

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Our audit practice is entering a new phase focused on growth. This new and exciting role has been created to help our mid market (Private Capital) audit team transform our approach to winning new business in the mid market.

You will be a part of a supportive and growing audit Go to Market team, as well as the national Markets and Clients community. This is a really exciting opportunity to help our partners and directors deliver on their ambitious growth targets by ensuring rigour and momentum in their business and client development activities.

You will:

Transform our approach to winning new business focusing on a proactive and structured approach that aligns with the Firm’s Sales and Marketing Cycle

Evolve our approach to Business Development by bringing a fresh perspective and insights from previous experience that will drive the right mindset.

Supporting and capitalising on private equity relationships and intermediary relations, helping to put in place a key account management framework to manage a key number of relationships with PE houses

Fully adopt the new CRM system (Dynamics), acting as a champion for best practice across the Private Capital (PC) Audit practice

Take responsibility for oversight. reporting and monitoring of KPIs around the sales pipeline

Support audit leaders, Head of G2M team and PC partners in the identification and pursuit of new markets and key targets, and help drive BD efforts

Hold PC partners to account on their actions and target development, flagging emerging issues or lack of progress

Work closely with the marketing team to inform our go-to-market plans and ensure they are leveraged by the business

Assist in development of propositions for the PC market through collaboration with wider assurance, tax and advisory practices and give insight into relevant hooks for different businesses

Oversee a XLOS approach to PC targets, working with BD in Entrepreneurial Services, Regions, Industries and with other Service Lines (Advisory and Tax) to gain synergies

Support building a sales culture and community within the Private Capital practice through regular communication and coordination

Identify and deliver BD/sales/account management training needs alongside the rest of the G2M team and the Learning& Innovation team

Knowing you’re right for us

Joining us as our Business Development Manager the minimum criteria you’ll need is:

Professional services experience

Background in marketing, BD, account management, or sales operations

Experience in effective stakeholder management at a senior level

Interest or knowledge of Audit beneficial but not critical

The role is flexible on location but does have a national remit so travel to different offices may be required.

It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way.

You’ll have a thorough understanding of lead generation, sales and client management activity

You’ll have strong communication and influencing skills

Drive and can work on own initiative, with ability to work with ambiguity

Experience of CRM systems (Sales Force, Dynamics etc)

Project management experience

Pro-active, can-do attitude

Ability to break down siloes, barriers

Resilience and tenacity

Knowing we’re right for you

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.

Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.

Beyond the job

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.

We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.

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