Business Development Senior Manager - Public Interest Audit

Grant Thornton UK; Gatwick; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audit and advisory firm is seeking a Business Development Senior Manager to drive growth in the public interest audit team. The role includes transforming business development strategies and managing stakeholder relationships. Ideal candidates will have professional services experience, ideally from Big 4 firms, along with a strong understanding of sales and lead generation. This position offers flexibility on location and requires travel to different offices as needed.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Inclusive culture

Opportunities for personal impact

Qualifications

• Professional services experience, ideally Big 4.
• Background in BD and account management in the FTSE 350 space.
• Experience in effective stakeholder management at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Transform approach to winning new business.
• Define and oversee a pipeline of tiered pursuits and tenders.
• Fully adopt the new CRM system while championing best practices.

Skills

Lead generation

Sales

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project management

Tools

CRM systems (Sales Force, Dynamics)

Job description

Overview

Grant Thornton

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. We empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we're on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

Role

This new and exciting role has been created to drive our Public Interest (PI) audit team transform our approach to winning new business and driving profitable growth in the large listed market, and large equivalent privately held companies including major-PE backed groups.

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.

Responsibilities

• Transform our approach to winning new business focusing on a proactive, structured and rigorous 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.
• Define, identify and oversee a pipeline of tiered pursuits and tenders, to support the growth of the PI business, introducing a key account management programme and tiering to the targets for resource and investment and achieve an increased conversion rate
• Fully adopt the new CRM system (Dynamics), acting as a champion for best practice across the PI Audit practice
• Account manage the priority PI targets, working closely with Pursuits team to set a clear relationship and win strategy in advance of the official tender process, regularly qualify those targets in and out
• Take responsibility for oversight, reporting and monitoring of KPIs around the sales pipeline
• Support audit leaders, Head of G2M team and PI partners in the identification and pursuit of new markets and key targets, and help drive BD efforts
• Hold PI partners to account on their actions and target development, flagging emerging issues or lack of progress
• Work closely with marketing team to inform our go-to-market plans and ensure they are leveraged by the business
• Help develop propositions for the PI market through collaboration with wider assurance, tax and advisory practices and give insight into relevant hooks for different businesses
• Liaise with other BD teams as needed e.g. Large Corporate, Industries, Regional, Advisory and Tax
• Build a sales culture and community within PI through regular communication and coordination
• Identify any BD/sales/account management training needs and organize for these to be met through 121 coaching and challenge and drawing from the firm’s Learning and Innovation team
• Support on some strategic client and target conversations alongside senior stakeholders to encourage a broader discussion

Qualifications

Knowing you’re right for us

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

• Professional services experience – ideally Big 4
• Background in BD and account management in the FTSE 350 space
• 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:

• 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
• Proactive, can-do attitude
• Ability to break down siloes, barriers
• Resilience and tenacity

Why Grant Thornton

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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