Business Development Manager – Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

About the role

We are looking for a commercially‑minded Business Development Manager to join the Strategic Partnerships & Alliances team at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The role focuses on identifying, developing and onboarding new strategic partners that support growth across our portfolio of risk, compliance and data‑analytics solutions. You will work closely with internal stakeholders to create new routes to market and drive partner‑led revenue.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and develop new partnership opportunities that align with business growth objectives.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective partners and associated business opportunities.
• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across partner organisations.
• Collaborate 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.

Required profile

• Proven experience in business development, strategic partnerships, alliances or channel sales.
• Demonstrated ability to generate and develop new business opportunities.
• Strong relationship‑building and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Commercially focused with excellent communication and negotiation abilities.
• Experience working in complex sales environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Self‑motivated, proactive and results‑driven.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
• Private medical benefits, health screening and eye‑care vouchers.
• Wellbeing programmes and employee assistance scheme.
• Competitive contributory pension and share‑option scheme.
• Travel season‑ticket loan, electric‑vehicle scheme and optional dental insurance.
• Parental leave, RECARES days for charitable support, and employee resource groups.
• Extensive learning and development resources and employee discount scheme.