About the role

Business Development Strategist enhancing strategic growth for Engine’s Business Development team. Collaborating with partners and internal stakeholders across European markets.

Responsibilities

Supporting early stage conversations, running demos to bring the value of Engine’s platform to life and gaining technical fluency behind our products, capabilities and architecture
Identifying and 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
Collaborating with our Business Development Consultants to lead enablement sessions for our implementation partners across the continent, designing resources and collateral whilst identifying market opportunities through your research skills, to offer focus to these engagements
Taking ownership of selected strategic opportunities, where we encourage you to try something new or hone your existing skillset
Understanding and distilling client needs and ambitions, ensuring clear communication and alignment throughout the organisation - maintaining a record of this within our CRM tool
Playing an instrumental role in Engine’s go-to-market strategy across Southern, Northern and Central Eastern Europe, through quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
Problem solving: conducting structured analysis and presentations to evidence how - and why - Engine can address the issues banks are facing today
Preparing strategic and reporting documentation for the Engine board

You have worked for 1-2 years in a reputable consulting organisation
You have gained an understanding of the retail or business banking sector, and have made a demonstrable impact on enabling strategic growth
You hold a Bachelor’s university degree or equivalent; we are agnostic to the subject studied and embrace different ways of thinking
**Your skills**
You have strong presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to convey value clearly and with transparency
Preferably you possess native or fluent European language skills, though this is not essential
You have excellent written communication skills, with the ability to adapt your writing style across a variety of use cases (proposals, market research reports and presentations)
You are highly organised and proactive, and embrace variety in your work alongside exposure to a number of teams within and outside of the organisation
You are highly analytical and pragmatic, with the ability to deploy your research into real-life scenarios
You have experience managing projects end-to-end, and are not afraid to challenge processes and offer new ideas for the team to benefit from
You are open to international travel, on an ad hoc basis
Experience within Data/AI is a plus

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