Business Development Lead
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Sales & Marketing
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SKILLS
BDR/SDR Team Leadership
CRM Management (Planhat, HubSpot)
Outbound Prospecting
Sales Engagement Tools (Outreach, Orum)
Sales Qualification (BANT, MEDDIC, SPICED)
Metrics-Driven Operations
Coaching & Training
Revenue Pipeline Generation
FULL DESCRIPTION
Business Development Lead
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] seeks a sales-focused Vertical Business Development Lead with a proven track record in building and scaling high-performing BDR/SDR/Sales organizations. This role sits at the intersection of sales execution, process optimization, and team leadership, ensuring our outbound engine consistently produces predictable and high-quality pipeline.
Key Responsibilities
Sales Leadership & Team Scaling
- Build, lead, and scale a high-volume BDR team capable of consistently hitting aggressive pipeline targets.
- Recruit, train, and retain top sales talent while establishing a structured performance framework (KPIs, quotas, comp models, promotion paths).
- Foster a competitive, metrics-driven, and coaching-oriented sales culture.
- Establish repeatable playbooks and frameworks to enable fast onboarding and predictable performance across geographies/markets/verticals.
Revenue Generation & Alignment
- Own responsibility for pipeline creation, ensuring that outbound efforts consistently translate into high-quality pipeline and ultimately revenue.
- Partner closely with Account Executives, Sales Leadership, and Marketing to optimize territory coverage, lead handoff, and campaign execution.
- Set clear productivity and conversion benchmarks (calls, sequences, meetings, SQLs, closed-won impact) and manage the team rigorously against them.
Process, Systems & Operations
- Design and implement scalable prospecting processes across multiple segments and markets in close collaboration with the Revenue Operations team.
- Leverage CRM (e.g., [Employer hidden], HubSpot) and sales engagement tools (e.g., Outreach, Orum) to maximize workflow efficiency and output quality.
- Partner with RevOps to ensure accurate reporting, and performance metrics to monitor leading/lagging indicators.
- Continuously evaluate and improve existing and new potential workflows to drive volume, personalization, and conversion at scale.
Execution & Hands-On Involvement
- Lead from the front, personally supporting high-value prospecting campaigns and modeling best practices in outreach.
- Coach BDRs on objection handling, messaging, and qualification to improve sales acumen and confidence.
- Drive continuous experimentation in outbound sequences, multichannel engagement, and sales messaging to maximize ROI.
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in high-volume BDR/SDR (Outbound), AE, or Business Development, with 2+ years in leadership roles.
- Proven track record of scaling sales development teams (e.g., from single digits to 20-50+ reps) while achieving ambitious pipeline/revenue contribution targets.
- Strong sales pedigree: deep understanding of sales qualification methodologies (BANT, MEDDIC, SPICED, etc.) and outbound prospecting best practices.
- Systems-savvy: expert in CRM, engagement tools, and sales automation; ability to architect efficient workflows, reporting, and dashboards.
- Data-driven operator with a demonstrated ability to optimize for conversion, productivity, and ROI at scale.
- Excellent communicator, motivator, and coach, capable of building trust with both executives and front-line reps.
- Growth-oriented, entrepreneurial mindset with the resilience to thrive in a fast-paced, high-expectation sales environment.
Success in This Role
- Scaling a high-volume BDR organization that consistently outperforms pipeline and revenue contribution targets.
- Implementing systems, processes, and playbooks that enable predictable, repeatable performance.
- Building a culture of sales excellence, career development, and accountability across the team.
- Driving significant top-of-funnel growth while aligning tightly with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps.
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