Business Development Manager - Energy & Infrastructure
14 days ago
City of London
Date posted: 31 March 2026 Basic Pay: £40,000.00–£55,000.00 per year (£65-80k OTE) Position: Business Development Manager - Energy & Infrastructure Location: Kensington, London Job Type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: Competitive base salary + uncapped performance bonus/earning potential + Growth Share Scheme Job Description Energy is one of the defining industries of our time central to the global economy, the energy transition, and the future of infrastructure. At Nationwide Utilities, we work with some of the UK and Europe’s largest and most energy-intensive organisations, helping them make smarter, more commercially effective decisions across energy procurement, risk management, on-site generation, grid connections, and wider energy strategy. With more than 25 years of industry expertise and the pace of a high-growth business, we are investing heavily in the next stage of our development including AI-enabled tools, advanced analytics, stronger marketing capability, and further expansion across UK and European markets. This is an opportunity to join a business with real momentum, strong foundations, and serious ambition. What we do matters commercially, strategically, and operationally for our clients and the people we bring into the business now will help shape what comes next. About the Role We are looking for a commercially sharp, proactive Business Development Manager who is genuinely comfortable creating opportunities through high-quality cold outreach. This is not a role for someone who wants to sit back and wait for leads to arrive. While you will have support from marketing, data, leadership, and internal analysts, a major part of your success in this role will come from your ability to identify the right accounts, research them properly, and start conversations from scratch. That means intelligent outbound calling, thoughtful email outreach, LinkedIn engagement, event follow-up, and targeted account development. We are not looking for a scattergun approach or hundreds of generic calls a day. Our market is more sophisticated than that. We are targeting larger, more complex businesses, often speaking with senior decision-makers, so outreach needs to be considered, relevant, credible, and commercially aware. A typical successful approach in this role is likely to involve a focused volume of high-quality outbound activity for example, 20 to 40 well-researched calls or touches in a day, rather than mass, low-conversion activity. You will need to be comfortable picking up the phone, opening conversations with senior stakeholders, handling resistance professionally, and building enough credibility to earn the next meeting. Why This Role Matters This is not a volume sales role. We focus on high-value opportunities and long-term client relationships. The businesses we work with are often making major commercial and strategic decisions around energy decisions that can affect cost, resilience, sustainability, expansion, and long-term planning. That means this role requires more than confidence and persistence. It requires judgement, curiosity, commercial intelligence, and the ability to translate complex solutions into relevant business value. You will be helping to open and develop opportunities across areas such as: • Energy procurement and risk management, • Grid connections, • On-site generation and renewable energy solutions, • Long-term energy strategy, • Flexible and structured commercial arrangements What You’ll Be Doing • Building your own pipeline from the ground up through targeted, intelligent outbound activity, • Researching target accounts, mapping stakeholders, and identifying commercial triggers, • Making high-quality cold calls and conducting tailored outreach via email, LinkedIn, events, and introductions, • Opening conversations with senior decision-makers across priority sectors, • Leading discovery discussions to understand client challenges, priorities, and commercial drivers, • Managing opportunities through the full sales cycle, from first contact to proposal, negotiation, and close, • Working closely with internal analysts and colleagues to shape commercially strong solutions and proposals, • Developing trusted relationships with prospects and clients over time, • Maintaining strong HubSpot discipline, pipeline visibility, and forecasting accuracy, • Sharing insight from the market to improve messaging, proposition development, and targeting What We’re Looking For • Proven B2B sales or business development experience in a role where self-generated pipeline was a major part of success, • Confidence making completely cold outbound approaches, especially over the phone, • Evidence of opening doors with senior stakeholders through research-led, targeted outreach, • Strong communication skills and the ability to build credibility quickly, • Commercial instinct and the ability to understand strategic business drivers, • Comfortable operating in a role that requires initiative, resilience, and consistency, • Organised, self-sufficient, and disciplined in pipeline management, • CRM experience, ideally HubSpot, • Ability to learn complex solutions and explain them clearly and simply to clients, • A professional, credible style suited to engaging larger, more sophisticated organisations, • Energy sector experience would be an advantage, but is not essential if you have sold complex B2B solutions in another relevant environment The Type of Person Likely to Do Well Here This role is likely to suit someone who: • enjoys the challenge of creating opportunity rather than waiting for it, • is comfortable making cold calls when they know the outreach is intelligent and well targeted, • prefers quality over noise, • understands that thoughtful preparation leads to better conversations, • wants to sell something meaningful rather than push a generic product, • is ambitious, commercially driven, and excited by growth What You’ll Get • Competitive base salary, • Uncapped earning potential, • Growth Share Scheme, • Modern Kensington office, • Team socials and a collaborative working environment, • Access to strong internal support across sales, analysts, leadership, and marketing, • The opportunity to work in one of the most commercially and strategically important sectors in the market, • A chance to contribute to a business that is scaling quickly and investing heavily in its future Why Join Nationwide Utilities We are building a modern, commercially serious business in a sector that is only becoming more important. This is a chance to join at the right stage when there is already credibility, delivery capability, and momentum, but still huge room for individual contribution and career growth. If you want a role where you can combine intelligent outbound sales, strategic conversations, and long-term commercial value creation, this could be an excellent next step.
