Senior Business Strategist

twentysix; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Client-facing engagement experience

Agency environment exposure

Familiar with sales tools

Job summary

Seer in the United Kingdom is seeking a seasoned Business Strategy professional to run discovery with inbound leads, build data-informed growth plans with cross-functional teams, and present strategic value to executive buyers.

You will negotiate, close deals, and ensure seamless handoffs to account teams, while contributing to Seer’s thought leadership and client conversations.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of digital marketing and how channels interact to drive outcomes.
• Natural relationship builder with clients and stakeholders.
• Experience presenting strategy to senior decision-makers (VP/CMO).
• Autonomous with a high-volume workload and structured pipeline.
• Data-driven, using numbers to frame cases and plans.
• Enjoys consultative client work and solving real problems.
• Comfort with ambiguity and quick decision-making.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate research, analysis or strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery calls with inbound leads to uncover business challenges and goals.
• Collaborate with SEO, Paid, Analytics, and Creative to craft growth strategies.
• Present pitches and proposals to C-suite stakeholders.
• Negotiate and finalize contracts with legal guidance when ready to close.
• Manage end-to-end discovery and smooth handoffs to account teams.

Skills

Digital marketing knowledge

Relationship builder

Strategy presentations

Autonomous workflow

Data-driven

Consultative client work

Ambiguity tolerance

AI tools experience

Tools

Pipedrive

HubSpot

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Job description

Role Highlights

Lead Qualification & Consultative Discovery

• We have a pipeline of 600+*inbound *leads annually, your job is to ask the right questions, get to the truth quickly, and be just as willing to disqualify a lead as you are to close it

• Run discovery calls with Fortune 500 marketing teams to understand their business challenges, channel mix, digital maturity, and what success actually looks like for them

Strategy & Pitch Development

• Collaborate with divisional experts across SEO, Paid Media, Analytics, and Creative to build data-informed, channel-integrated growth strategies tailored to each prospect

• Lead pitch presentations and proposals for prospects up to the C-suite that show exactly how Seer can move the needle

• Negotiate and finalize contracts with legal guidance when deals are ready to close

Pipeline & Client Handoff

• Manage the full process from first contact through client kick-off, ensuring every new partner is a strong values and capability fit before anything is signed

• Deliver a seamless handoff to account teams so every new client relationship starts on solid ground

Thought Leadership & Community

• Contribute to the Seer blog, speak at industry events, and engage in professional communities to build Seer's brand and surface new business conversations organically

Essential Skills

• You have a depth of knowledge in digital marketing. You understand how SEO, paid media, analytics, and other channels interact to drive business outcomes, not just how one channel works in isolation

• You are a natural relationship builder who has spent your career earning trust with clients or stakeholders, not a stranger to a high-stakes conversation

• You have experience presenting strategy to senior decision-makers and can translate complexity into clarity for a VP or CMO audience

• You are comfortable operating autonomously with a high-volume workload and bring structure and discipline to your own pipeline

• You are data-driven, you use numbers to qualify, build your case, and sharpen your approach over time

• You feel energized by the consultative side of client work, you want to solve real problems, not pitch from a script

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and can make good decisions with incomplete information

• You have experience working with AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, or strategy development and you're always looking for ways to work smarter

Bonus!

• You have a background in Client Engagement, Account Management, or a client-facing strategy role and have been responsible for organic account growth

• You have experience in a digital agency environment where you've pitched or contributed to pitches for new clients

• You have familiarity with tools like Pipedrive, HubSpot, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator

• You have hands-on channel experience in more than one discipline (e.g., SEO + Paid, or Paid + Analytics)

This might not be the right role for you if

• You thrive on cold outreach and commission-based incentives, this role is 90% inbound with a full salary and bonus, not a commission structure

• You specialize deeply in one digital marketing channel but haven't had to make the case for how channels work together

• You prefer to stay in execution mode and aren't energized by client-facing conversations or the business side of the work

• You need a highly defined playbook to follow: this role requires judgment, curiosity, and comfort with figuring things out in real time

• Saying "no" to a potential client feels like failure, here, disqualifying the wrong-fit lead is part of doing the job well

30/60/90

First 30 Days — Learn

• Immerse yourself in Seer's pitch process, service offerings, and the types of leads we work best with

• Shadow discovery calls and strategy presentations to understand how the Business Strategy team qualifies and wins business

• Begin running your own discovery conversations with inbound leads under guidance

60 Days — Build

• Independently own the full discovery process on a set of inbound leads from first call through proposal

• Build your first pitch collaboratively with a divisional SME and present it to a real prospect

• Develop your working understanding of when to push forward and when a lead isn't the right fit

90 Days — Lead

• Owning your pipeline end-to- end with a clear handle on close rate, average deal size, and time-to-close

• Contributing intelligence back to the team on patterns you're seeing what kinds of leads convert, what objections come up, what the market is saying

• Tracking toward a $2M annual revenue target from inbound leads