Business Development Manager
3 days ago
City of London
The Opportunity A high-growth, venture-backed FoodTech platform is building the future operating model for restaurants and delivery-first brands. We’re hiring a Business Development Manager to help scale our network of partner kitchens and hospitality operators across the UK. This is a hunter role. You’ll proactively source, pitch, and close new partner operators (restaurants, pubs, takeaways, dark kitchens) to launch and operate our portfolio of fast-growing food brands from their existing kitchens. Perfect for graduates or early-career sales professionals who enjoy outbound sales, relationship building, and fast-paced environments. Key Criteria (Essential) • 1+ year experience in sales, business development, or commercial roles, • Comfortable with cold outreach and building relationships from scratch, • Strong communication and persuasion skills, • Highly driven, competitive, and resilient, • Commercially minded with negotiation ability, • Organised and able to manage a pipeline, • Graduate or equivalent experience, • Background in hospitality, food, SaaS, marketplace, or B2B sales, • CRM experience (HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar), • Interest in startups / high-growth environments What You’ll Be Doing • Proactively source and prospect hospitality operators across your region, • Run outbound activity via cold calls, emails, field sales, and LinkedIn, • Pitch the commercial value of operating our food brands, • Own the full sales cycle: discovery → pitch → negotiation → close → launch, • Manage your pipeline using CRM (HubSpot or similar), • Work closely with Partner Success, Culinary, Marketing, and Growth teams, • Ensure partner quality and long-term commercial success, • Hit and exceed monthly host acquisition targets (4+ partners per month once ramped), • Feed market insights back into strategy and brand expansion decisions What’s In It For You • £32,000 – £36,000 base salary, • Uncapped monthly commission (Year 1 OTE £45k–£50k+), • Equity / share options, • Hybrid working (1–2 days remote), • 25 days holiday + bank holidays + birthday off, • Healthcare cash plan & EAP, • Apple MacBook & iPhone, • High-growth environment with clear progression into Senior BDM / Team Lead / Manager Why Join • High-growth FoodTech scale-up, • Proven product-market fit, • Fast career progression, • Real ownership and responsibility from day one, • Work on brands consumers genuinely love