Business Development Executive

Reports to: Business Development Manager

Starting salary range:  £26,521 - £30,000

Location: London – EC4Y 8EE (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent, full-time (31.5 hours per week)

Job Purpose

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to develop their knowledge and skills in business development. Working alongside our Business Development Manager, you’ll get involved in new business generation, account management, increasing sponsorship opportunities and converting leads to sales. You’ll also be involved in providing an outstanding level of customer service to our partners and sponsors and develop your own portfolio of accounts and sales prospects.

Please note: This role may require travel, overnight stays and weekend work, for example at our conferences.

Application DeadlineOctober 01, 2025DepartmentOperationsEmployment TypePermanentLocationLondon (hybrid)Workplace typeHybridCompensation£26,521 - £30,000 / yearReporting ToBusiness Development Manager

This role's hiring manager:

Jess Badley

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Main responsibilities

Business development support

• Support with the delivery of a business development strategy for BSR that secures financially sustainable funding streams that support our drive to improve patient care
• Carry out routine market research, pricing modelling and competitor analysis
• Generate ideas for product development that improve our product portfolios to keep partners engaged in supporting our membership.

Relationship building and customer service

• Provide exceptional and consistent relationship management with sponsors, partners and collaborators
• With the Business Development Manager, enable internal sharing of insight and intelligence about trends and movements with industry partners
• Keep all trackers and sales pipelines up to date.

Systems and compliance

• Support our partners to maximise their impact
• Be the key admin for business development systems and trackers, including being the team’s subject matter expert for the CRM
• Be a secondary admin for related team systems, such as booking systems and conference apps
• With the Business Development Manager, ensure our materials and products are compliant with the ABPI pharmaceutical industry code
• Work closely with the finance team to ensure all billing and invoicing is issued and processed in a timely manner
• Ensure our partners are aligning with our sustainability value and event requirements.

Person Specification

1. Experience of sales and/or business development either directly or in a support function
2. Experience of digital systems and tools
3. Ability to carry out market research and competitor analysis and report findings
4. Proven skills in customer services
5. Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
6. Good interpersonal and communication skills
7. Commitment to BSR values.

Timetable

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 1st October.

Interviews are expected to take place Thursday 9th October.

Equity, Inclusion and Diversity statement

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equity, and diversity in our workforce. We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our staff team. We try to reduce as many barriers as we can for those with a disability. We know that everyone is an individual, so please always tell us what we can do to support you.

We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

Benefits of working at BSR

We offer a wide range of benefits, most of which start from day one of joining us. Our benefits fall into four main areas: Wellbeing, Time- based, Learning and development, and Financial. Just some of them include:

Wellbeing:

• Free period products in our office
• Free flu vaccinations
• Mental Health First Aiders
• BUPA healthcare scheme- we offer a cash plan, which you can add children or partners to
• Employee Assistance Programme. This is a free, confidential counselling service to all staff, as well as a general advice service provided by BUPA
• WeCare offers access to a 24/7 virtual GP, as well as a mental health support service, a get fit programme and an online portal with lots of helpful resources
• Our enhanced sick pay offer is: - Up to two years’ service: 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay
  • After two years’ service: 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay
• We work in a social environment with a range of activities, both virtual and in person, run by our Social Squad. This includes an organisation- wide volunteering day.

Time-based:

• We offer 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• All staff can request sabbaticals at any point, which are considered on a case-by-case basis
• We also offer an extra day for moving house
• Bank holiday swaps- you can swap a bank holiday day for another day’s leave (entitlement remains 1:1 days)
• We’re a 4 day week employer, which at BSR means working your fulltime hours (31.5 each week) over 5 days

Learning and development

We will help you develop your career by supporting your personal development and encouraging internal progression. This includes recognising individuals’ achievements through our internal staff awards. We offer a huge range of learning opportunities, both in-house and externally. This includes a thorough induction programme when you join us, as well as development opportunities aimed at line managers, and wellbeing-based learning sessions. And if professional membership is a required part of your role, we’ll cover the cost of that.

Financial:

• We offer a performance related pay incentive scheme
• Income protection scheme
• You’ll be enrolled on our pensions scheme with Aegon (via Second Sight). Our current pension match is 5% employer contribution if you contribute 4% (9% contribution in total).
• Our life assurance policy pays three times your basic salary
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Ride-to-work scheme
• Interest-free loan scheme
• We also provide generous enhancements within our parental and family leave policies. - Our maternity/shared parental/adoption offer is 6 weeks at full pay, 33 weeks at half pay, followed by 13 weeks at the statutory rate.
  • Our paternity leave offer is 6 weeks at full pay.

About British Society for Rheumatology

The British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation which brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability. Involving patients and carers at every step, we aim to ensure that physicians and clinicians are equipped to provide high-quality care.

We’re a small organisation with huge ambitions. If you’re looking for an organisation with a one-team feel where you’ll be able to develop professionally and have the autonomy to run with your ideas, we might be a match for you.

We have a great benefits package, and wellbeing is a key part of our People and Culture strategy.  We're a 4.5 day week employer, which means full time is 31.5 hours per week, spread over 5 days. We work in a hybrid way, coming together as a whole staff team once a month, and then deciding at team level when and how to work together most effectively in person.

We’re proud to have won several HR awards, to be a Living Wage accredited employer, and are committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity in our workforce. Our values guide our decision making and our behaviours, and we’ll ask you about these at interview stage.

You can find out more about each of the individuals who make up our staff team as well as

read more about our vision, mission and values .

Make sure you've had a read through of our ' . We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.