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Business Development Manager at RELX in London
Job Description
Business Development Manager
Location: London Wall
Business Development Manager – Strategic Partnerships & Alliances
Location: London or Cardiff
Hybrid: 2 to 3 days/week in office
This role requires regular travel to meet clients in person.
About the Business:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help customers solve complex problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk Mitigation, and Customer Data Management.
🔗 Learn more: https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About the Team:
The Strategic Partnerships & Alliances team is responsible for growing revenue through a network of strategic partners, consultancies, software integrators, resellers and technology providers. The team works collaboratively across the business to develop new routes to market, strengthen partner relationships and create new business opportunities.
About the Role:
We are seeking a commercially minded Business Development Manager to join our Strategic Partnerships & Alliances team.
This role will focus on identifying, developing and onboarding new strategic partners that support business growth across our portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for building relationships with prospective partners, generating new business opportunities and contributing to the growth of our partner ecosystem.
Whilst the primary focus is new business acquisition, the role may also include responsibility for managing and growing selected strategic partner relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify and develop new partnership opportunities that support business growth objectives.
Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective partners and associated business opportunities.
Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across partner organisations.
Work collaboratively with internal teams to onboard and enable new partners.
Support partner-led revenue growth through joint business development activities.
Maintain accurate pipeline, forecasting and activity reporting.
Represent the business at industry events, networking opportunities and partner engagements.
Success Measures:
New partner acquisition.
Pipeline generation and opportunity creation.
Revenue generated through partner relationships.
Partner onboarding and engagement.
Achievement of individual and team objectives.
Requirements:
Experience in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Alliances, Channel Sales or a related field.
Proven ability to generate and develop new business opportunities.
Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
Commercially focused with strong communication and negotiation skills.
Experience working across complex sales environments with multiple stakeholders.
Self-motivated, proactive and results driven.
Experience within SaaS, Data, Analytics, Identity, Fraud, Compliance or Risk Solutions would be advantageous.
Key Behaviours:
Commercial awareness
Relationship building
Collaboration and teamwork
Influencing and negotiation
Resilience and adaptability
Customer and partner focus
Results orientation
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and grow our strategic partner ecosystem. You will play a key role in developing new routes to market, creating new business opportunities and contributing directly to revenue growth through strategic partnerships.
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
Wellbeing programs
Life assurance
Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
Save As You Earn share option scheme
Travel Season ticket loan
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Optional Dental Insurance
Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
Access to extensive learning and development resources
Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here.




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