Business Development Manager

Eight Financial Advice

Business Development Manager at Eight Financial Advice driving partnership development and client acquisition strategies. Supporting growth for a leading financial planning business in the UK.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeWhiteley • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**Business Development Manager**
Eight Financial Advice is one of the UK's leading financial planning businesses, serving almost 20,000 clients, managing over £5 billion of client assets and supporting more than 70 Financial Advisers across the UK. As part of our ambitious growth strategy, we are creating a new Business Development Manager role within our Business Growth Team.
This is a highly commercial role focused on building a structured pipeline of partnerships and introducer relationships across employers, professional services firms, employee benefit providers, accountants, payroll providers, solicitors and corporate organisations. The successful candidate will help create new client acquisition opportunities whilst increasing the visibility and reach of Eight Financial Advice across the UK.

Requirements

What you’ll need

**Essential **
- Proven success in B2B Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Corporate Relationship Management or New Business roles.
- Strong experience engaging senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills.
- Strong negotiation and commercial acumen.
- High-level CRM discipline and data management capability.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
**Desirable **
- Experience within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Employee Benefits, Professional Services or related sectors.
- Understanding of financial planning or wealth management propositions.
- Knowledge of workplace financial wellbeing programmes.
- Familiarity with the St. James’s Place operating model.
**The Person**
We are looking for a proactive, commercially driven self-starter who is energised by creating opportunities and building trusted relationships.
You will be naturally curious, highly motivated and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy. You understand how to build structured prospecting strategies, maintain a healthy pipeline and convert opportunities into long-term commercial partnerships.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- **Uncapped earning potential **
- **Hybrid working**: 3 days in the office, 2 days wherever you work best
- **Performance bonus** + **Company-wide bonus**
- **28 days' holiday** + **bank holidays** + **your birthday off**
- **Private medical insurance** & **life assurance** (4x salary)
- **Wellbeing support**: EAP, mental health helpline, cycle-to-work scheme
- **Free mortgage and pension advice** from our in-house experts
- **Volunteering time**: 8 paid hours annually via The Eight Foundation
- **Regular socials & epic events**

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data ManagementNegotiation SkillsPresentation SkillsInfluencing SkillsOrganisational SkillsTime Management

Soft Skills

ProactiveCommercially DrivenSelf-StarterCuriousMotivated