GAIN Creative Studio - Business Development Manager

ABOUT:

GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress.

We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions.

Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. As imagineers we don’t just embrace innovation – we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs. 

This is where rebel thinking, smart technology, and data-driven creativity shape the future.

Through our five specialist teams: Creative Studio, Conversion, Customer Science, Experience and Performance. Individually, and together, we work to fuel your growth, and deliver measurable impact.

Whether it’s crafting bold stories, building standout identities, or launching social campaigns that people actually care about, GAIN Creative Studio helps brands grow with purpose. From scroll-stopping content to creative that converts, we mix insight and imagination to get results - and have fun along the way.

As Business Development Manager, you will support the Business Development Director in GAIN Creative Studio to drive the new business machine - strategy, planning and generating new leads and client opportunities is the order of the day.

Working within our business development team, and across our GAIN new business functions, you’ll craft and deliver proposals, tenders and pitch presentations that delight and excite our prospects. As well as being involved in closing opportunities and onboarding new clients into the agency successfully.

We’ve been growing organically as an agency since we started but now want to supercharge that trajectory so you must have strong, proven business development experience and excellent key account management skills. Experience working within a creative agency environment is essential.

• A strong writer and communicator when it comes to compiling and writing RFI's
• Well versed in setting up and running Hubspot
• Well versed in managing marketing budgets to help drive sales
• Weekly reporting to get a pulse of what’s happening and monthly bigger picture reports will be required to help steer the new business effort
• Able to motivate and inspire others to do great work
• Strong communicator, able to get complex ideas across to others in straightforward language
• A skilled, engaging, charismatic and confident presenter
• Able to demonstrate a high level of resilience
• Commercially astute and able to quickly identify, understand and articulate a range of strategic business challenges to identify and leverage opportunities
• Strong collaborator with multiple partners and proven influencing skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to flex style and approach according to the audiences

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Nurture a long-term pipeline of new business prospects
• Proactively develop well-considered outbound activity appropriate to our targets
• Identify tender frameworks we need to be on and deliver what is required to make this happen
• Attend conferences, events, and meetings to raise our profile amongst our target prospects
• Actively seek out opportunities to develop our brand reputation, and work with internal teams to bring these to fruition
• Support the BDD with the internal pitch process, lead rehearsals, and hone our collective ability to represent GAIN in the best possible light
• Ensure that the agency process for pitch preparation is efficient, consistent and effective
• Maintain excellent relationships across all internal departments so that you are able to secure the resources that you need when required
• Drive the standard of new business output for the agency: push for excellence in creativity and innovation at all times whilst balancing investment vs opportunity
• Communicate regularly to the wider internal GAIN team about the new business opportunities that we’re pursuing and where we’ve decided not to pursue opportunities
• Monitor competitor activity, and where relevant and appropriate, produce activity that is more creative, innovative and relevant to our target prospects

HOW YOU’LL WORK:

Constant curiosity: You can think critically and understand the data, knowing where you need to take action. You’re analytical with the ability to investigate and resolve  

Pushing boundaries: You’ll make the most efficient use of technology, suggesting process improvements  

The power of our imagination: You're a problem solver who goes the extra mile. You’ll know the best approach to take with clients to get results. 

Making it happen: You’re proactive and you know you can make a difference. You use your sound judgement when making decisions and you take responsibility for your decisions and actions. 

Putting people first: You’ll build effective relationships with people, internally and externally, understanding both business and client needs.

SALARY  

Competitive dependent on experience

BENEFITS

• Our benefits for UK employees include:
• Private Medical Insurance
• BUPA Life Assurance 
• Income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
• Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme
• Octopus EV Scheme
• Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing

GAIN is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity