Business Development Director, London 50-60k

A Business Development Director role with a 70 person digital agency that develops digital strategy and website design and build for FTSE100 and big corporates. They are leaders with a highly successful reputation and average client relationships of 8 years.
This Business Development Director role will invent, plan and implement a marketing and business development programme aimed at big brands and big clients across multiple channels both in the UK and mainland Europe.
You'll have the freedom to run with it – supported by a marketing administrator, and you’ll get to control how your business development strategies are realised and developed over time.
The contact programme is a priority activity and will be run with current and potential clients and centrally co-ordinated through Salesforce.com.
This Business Development Director role is not initially pitching to clients on digital solutions, it more facilitates the beginnings of client relationships allowing Digital Strategists and Senior Account Directors to meet and have conversations with potential new clients. The role is a long term strategy and will be an ambassador for the agency. They are really looking to take time to embed this person into the agency during the first year. A lot of research in the role, for example looking at the European corporate brand landscape.
You will ideally have online communications and corporate communications knowledge.
The Business Development Director role works closely with the MD and the Senior Digital Strategy team.
This is an agency that believes in and advocates work – life balance. It is an agency with very little people turnover due to the culture. This role is a long term strategy, it is not an answer to any immediate problem, they are a top listed, highly successful agency.
This agency is the ‘Bentley’ of digital agencies, highly capable with global web design and builds for major brands. They also develop client strategies with user experience, branding, social media, mobile, digital marketing - all forms of digital and online communications. They are experts with a very strong reputation.
To find out more about the Business Development Director job spec and agency culture, please email your CV to me graham@searchpartydigital.com
Business Development Director role.