
Business Development Consultant – Southern Europe
Starling Bank
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- - Supporting early stage conversations, running client workshops and demos, whilst identifying opportunities across Southern Europe
- - Contributing to marketing activities and conferences, elevating the awareness and understanding of Engine’s brand and market positioning, ensuring we build a reputation based on trust and excellence
- - Fostering and maintaining strong relationships with our implementation partners, driving collaborative business development activities and go-to-market strategies
- - Co-ordinating platform requirements for the European market into the product roadmap
- - Taking ownership of selected strategic opportunities, where we encourage you to try something new or hone your existing skillset
- - Acting as the advocate and voice of the client throughout the relationship, offering transparency and building trust, with the ability to distil and understand their strategic vision and needs
- - Project managing opportunities, bringing different domains of the business together to offer subject matter expertise and specialist insight about Engine’s solution
- - Managing commercial and contractual conversations
- - Working with our Client Solutions teams through Discovery and Delivery phases, providing relationship-based and commercial support
- - Problem solving: conducting structured analysis and presentations to evidence how - and why - Engine can address the issues banks are facing today
Requirements
- - You have worked for 3+ years in a reputable consulting organisation, where you gained experience and exposure across a number of banks and situations in Southern Europe, and now want to apply your advisory skills into practice
- - You have experience of the financial services industry (ideally retail or business banking) and an understanding of the challenges relating to bank IT systems and change management
- **Your skills**
- - You possess native or fluent **Spanish, French and/or Italian language skills** (additional european languages being also a plus)
- - You are highly proactive, and an avid learner - rapidly assimilating technical concepts alongside a variety of client issues, needs and concerns
- - You have the confidence to ask insightful questions and engage in conversation with senior bank executives
- - You embrace autonomy in a highly collaborative team with a flat structure
- - You have strong presentation, facilitation and communication skills
- - You possess strong attention to detail, without sacrificing the wider picture - articulating a value proposition through its constituent parts
- - You can adapt your communication style to different stakeholders (senior clients, consulting organisations and engineering functions, for example)
Benefits
- - 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
- - An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- - Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- - 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- - Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- - Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- - Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- - Generous family-friendly policies
- - Incentives refer a friend scheme
- - Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- - Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementchange managementclient relationship managementstrategic planningproblem solvingpresentation skillsfacilitation skillscommercial negotiationanalysisadvisory skills
Soft Skills
proactiveautonomycollaborationcommunicationattention to detailadaptabilityinsightful questioningclient advocacytrust buildinglearning agility