Business Development Manager
Location: London or Cardiff
Hybrid: 2 to 3 days/week in office
This role requires regular travel to meet clients in person.
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help customers solve complex problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk Mitigation, and Customer Data Management.
🔗 Learn more: https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About the Team
Are you looking to join an industry-leading sales organisation? Our Corporate Sales team partners with organisations to address and solve complex risk problems. At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we pride ourselves on providing solutions that directly impact our customers' ability to mitigate and manage risk. You’ll join a high-performance sales team in a fast-growing business that is part of a FTSE 100 global leader, well-known and respected in the market.
About the Role
You will be responsible for developing a strategy within our Banking, Lending and Payments team to help sign new customers and sell new products into our existing, established customer base. Focusing on new business of mixed complexity/type opportunities adopting a consultative selling approach to achieve strategic long term engagements. To accomplish this, you will work in conjunction with other salespeople in this team and key groups across the business to develop a strategy to grow our business within your allocated territory.
Key Responsibilities:
Meeting/exceeding sales targets as set by the Sales Director
Actively seeking out new business opportunities within existing accounts and new logos.
Going higher & wider within organisations to connect with new stakeholders and value streams.
Leading with insight and develop an understanding of customer workflows and customer value.
Recording client engagement and communication on a CRM.
Collaborating with all business functions locally and globally to support our go-to-market outreach.
Requirements / Qualifications:
A proven track record of completing new business within a data as a service / SaaS / tech environment.
Able to establish strong, long-term customer relationships while capturing high-value growth opportunities.
Comfortable going high & wide within organisations you manage and connect with new stakeholders.
Comfortable to lead with insight and develop an understanding of customer/prospect workflows and customer/prospect value.
Able to maintain high-quality customer engagement through phone, email, social media, and onsite visits and should be travelling to targeted clients each month.
Record client engagement and communication on a CRM.
Willing to collaborate with all business functions locally and globally to support our go-to-market outreach.
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
Wellbeing programs
Life assurance
Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
Save As You Earn share option scheme
Travel Season ticket loan
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Optional Dental Insurance
Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
Access to extensive learning and development resources
Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here.
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Skills Required
- Proven track record of completing new business within a data as a service / SaaS / tech environment
- Able to establish strong, long-term customer relationships while capturing high-value growth opportunities
- Comfortable going high and wide within organisations and connecting with new stakeholders
- Able to lead with insight and develop an understanding of customer/prospect workflows and value
- Maintain high-quality customer engagement through phone, email, social media, and onsite visits, with monthly travel to targeted clients
- Record client engagement and communication on a CRM
- Willingness to collaborate with business functions locally and globally to support go-to-market outreach
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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