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Senior Business Development Manager

Centellic Open · verified Sep 24, 2026
Hybrid London Full-time Senior Business Development

At a glance

Senior Business Development role at Centellic. London · full-time.

Pay not stated

RoleBusiness Development
SenioritySenior
LocationLondon
WorkplaceHybrid
EmploymentFull-time
PostedJul 29, 2026 · 8w ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Sell sponsorship and exhibition packages for legal technology events, from prospecting through negotiation and close
  • Build a vendor, law-firm and legal-tech pipeline against your personal revenue target
  • Grow sponsor and exhibitor accounts through upgrades, upsells and multi-event agreements
  • Maintain accurate CRM records from initial lead through Closed Won, while sharing market insight with colleagues
  • Represent events at conferences and mentor junior BDMs as the team develops

What you bring

  • A strong sales record in events, media, publishing or professional services, with sponsorship or exhibition selling preferred
  • Credible legal-sector or technology-sector knowledge, or a well-grounded interest in either area
  • Confidence handling senior stakeholders and negotiating substantial sponsorship commitments
  • Comfort using digital tools, including automation and AI systems, to improve sales processes
  • A consultative, relationship-led approach plus resilience and self-motivation around targets

Who this fits

You’ll suit a senior, quota-carrying sales role where you own the full cycle and build long-term sponsor relationships. The work includes mentoring junior colleagues and coordinating with content, marketing, operations and finance. You’ll need to travel for events and client meetings, and the role is hybrid in London.

From the employer

Centellic's Events division runs the leading international legal technology events that bring the sector's vendors, law firms and innovators together. We're looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to own sponsorship and exhibition revenue for one of our fastest-growing conference series, Legal Geek.

This is a senior, quota-carrying role for someone who already knows how to sell high-value sponsorship packages and wants real ownership. You'll also help shape the next generation of the team, mentoring junior BDMs as the division scales.

  • Drive sponsorship and exhibition sales for Centellic's legal technology events portfolio, building a pipeline of vendors, law firms and legal-tech innovators.
  • Own the full sales cycle end-to-end. From prospecting, pitching, negotiating and closing against a personal revenue target.
  • Build and protect senior-level relationships with sponsors and exhibitors, identifying upsell, upgrade and multi-event opportunities as their needs grow.
  • Bring deep, credible knowledge of the legal tech landscape: the vendors, the buyers, the competitor events and share that intelligence to sharpen our proposition and content.
  • Represent Centellic at industry events and conferences building the relationships that turn into pipeline.
  • Partner closely with content, marketing, operations and finance to make sure what we sell gets delivered flawlessly.
  • Keep the CRM a genuinely accurate picture of your pipeline, not a box-ticking exercise: leads and opportunities tracked cleanly through to Closed Won.
  • Mentor and support junior members of the team, helping embed them in the business and in Centellic's culture.
  • A strong track record of sales in events, media, publishing or professional services, sponsorship or exhibition sales experience strongly preferred.
  • Existing knowledge of, or credible interest in, the legal sector or technology sector would be desirable but not essential
  • Competent using digital tools day-to-day, to manage, improve and update automation and AI systems to streamline processes and drive efficiency.
  • Confidence pitching and negotiating with senior stakeholders, comfortable discussing significant sponsorship investments.
  • A genuinely consultative, relationship-first sales style: you build partnerships, not just close deals.
  • Resilience and self-motivation; you're driven by targets.
  • Willingness to travel for events and client meetings.
  • A natural mentor, someone junior colleagues want to learn from.

About CentellicCentellic stands at the center of the markets it serves, empowering organizations with indispensable data and insight to make critical decisions on growth, risk and opportunity.
Through proprietary data, deep market expertise and AI-enabled technology, our platforms are embedded in client workflows. That capability is underpinned by our events, which bring the market together to share perspective and deepen understanding of the issues shaping each sector. Together, they give organizations earlier visibility of emerging trends, and the clarity and confidence to act when decisions matter.

At Centellic, we’re a global intelligence and information services business, setting the standard for how critical business decisions are made.

Why Centellic?At Centellic, we help our clients make better decisions, and our people are at the heart of that work. Every individual plays an important role in this, bringing curiosity and high standards to everything they do.

Those who thrive here take ownership, care deeply about their work and are committed to excellence. Standards are high because our people set them that way. And while we have decades of expertise, we are still growing, pushing and building something extraordinary.

Centellic’s advantage is our people and the culture we’ve created together. It’s an environment where individuality is encouraged, relationships are genuine, and there’s a strong sense of purpose in what we’re building together. Collaborative, respectful and driven, we take our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

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