Business Development Associate Director
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What you'll do
- Support senior commercial and sector leaders and partners in shaping and executing growth strategies across priority markets.
- Strengthen account management disciplines, ensuring consistent processes for opportunity development, sales management, and revenue reporting.
- Drive structured approaches to identifying and converting major commercial opportunities.
- Enhance cross‑selling and collaboration across service lines, ensuring client needs are matched with the organisation’s full suite of capabilities.
- Lead best‑practice pipeline management, including forecasting, win/loss analysis and performance dashboards.
- Contribute to strategic bids by helping refine value propositions and commercial messaging.
- Build strong internal relationships across business units to support joint go‑to‑market initiatives.
- Maintain awareness of sector trends, client issues and emerging commercial themes to support strategic planning.
What they're looking for
- Degree‑qualified or equivalent.
- 10+ years’ experience in business development, commercial strategy or account leadership within professional services or industry.
- Proven track record in driving growth within large, complex accounts.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability and sales orientation.
- Skilled in CRM, pipeline management and revenue reporting.
- Excellent relationship‑building skills and the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders and partners
- Strong communication, influencing and project management abilities.
- Comfortable driving change and embedding best‑practice commercial processes.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
We are seeking a dynamic and results‑oriented Business Development Associate Director to help drive the commercial growth agenda of a leading professional services organisation operating across multiple high‑value sectors.
The Role
- Support senior commercial and sector leaders and partners in shaping and executing growth strategies across priority markets.
- Strengthen account management disciplines, ensuring consistent processes for opportunity development, sales management, and revenue reporting.
- Drive structured approaches to identifying and converting major commercial opportunities.
- Enhance cross‑selling and collaboration across service lines, ensuring client needs are matched with the organisation’s full suite of capabilities.
- Lead best‑practice pipeline management, including forecasting, win/loss analysis and performance dashboards.
- Contribute to strategic bids by helping refine value propositions and commercial messaging.
- Build strong internal relationships across business units to support joint go‑to‑market initiatives.
- Maintain awareness of sector trends, client issues and emerging commercial themes to support strategic planning.
This role sits within a central commercial and business development function and works closely with senior sector leaders. It is an internally focused role designed to strengthen the organisation’s commercial effectiveness and support growth across key accounts and sectors.
About You
- Degree‑qualified or equivalent.
- 10+ years’ experience in business development, commercial strategy or account leadership within professional services or industry.
- Proven track record in driving growth within large, complex accounts.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability and sales orientation.
- Skilled in CRM, pipeline management and revenue reporting.
- Excellent relationship‑building skills and the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders and partners
- Strong communication, influencing and project management abilities.
- Comfortable driving change and embedding best‑practice commercial processes.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
Location & Package
- Dublin based with hybrid working arrangements available.
- Highly competitive salary and benefits package.
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior business development professional to play a pivotal role in strengthening commercial performance and supporting long‑term growth across key sectors.
Location: Dublin, hybrid working model – 3 days in office per week.
Salary: Highly Competitive
Job Ref: 9611MT
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