Overview

emap City Of London, England, United Kingdom – Business Development Director. The Business Development Director will own the strategy and execution for winning new, high-value commercial partnerships across our full portfolio. This senior role blends strategic thinking with hands-on sales leadership to deliver significant revenue growth and build long-term client relationships.

Note: This section consolidates the core role and is based on the original description.

Responsibilities

• New Business Leadership – Build and execute a cross-sector sales strategy to secure new, high-value clients across all target markets.
• Senior Client Engagement – Open doors, lead high-level conversations, and challenge clients to develop solutions that deliver measurable ROI.
• Revenue Growth – Deliver and exceed annual targets through sponsorship, content partnerships, and bespoke marketing solutions.
• Proposition Development – Work with marketing, content, and events teams to create compelling, insight-led propositions.
• Market Insight – Monitor competitor activity and market shifts to identify emerging opportunities.
• Relationship Management – Build strong, senior-level relationships with industry stakeholders, agencies, and partners.

Skills and experience

• Relevant experience in a B2B or consumer publishing and events sales environment
• A high level of business acumen and commercial awareness, able to provide creative solutions to help give clients maximum standout.
• A good understanding of the current media landscape and the opportunities available for clients to deliver meaningful connections and engagement, especially digital and social media.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain strong personal relationships with team members and external stakeholders.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, having the flexibility to be able to multitask and prioritise own workload with ease.
• A driven character and self-starter who has a genuine passion for businesses and how they operate, and who thrives in a growing environment.
• Skilled in consultative, value-led selling.
• Strategic, commercially astute, and results-driven.
• Strong presenter and negotiator, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What we offer

Learning & Development

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. We provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees and encourage identifying personal and professional development aligned with strategic areas including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology.

We have a structured framework to equip employees with knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their roles. We also offer specialised programs and other role-specific and generic courses under the emap academy.

Benefits

emap is part of Metropolis Group. We are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, with fantastic benefits and perks.

• 25 days of annual leave, with option to buy or sell additional days
• One additional day of leave per year – Celebration Day
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Private virtual GP access
• Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
• Discounted gym memberships
• Rail season ticket loans
• Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
• Work from home during August
• Income protection and more

Privacy

Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. Our privacy policy is available at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply

Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to provide individual feedback at the application stage; shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 10 working days of application.