Business Development Manager - Business Rates

**Business Development Manager Business Rates UK**

Location: London/Hybrid

Salary: 40-55k + Bonus

TML Recruitment is working with a boutique, but high performing business rates consultancy to find a Business Development Manager who can take a business with real momentum and knit it all together.

This one’s a bit different to the usual BD role. The firm is smaller, sharper and genuinely on the up, with plenty of opportunity already sitting there waiting for the right person to join the dots. You won’t be slotting into a rigid machine or fighting for airtime behind ten other BD managers. You’ll have the room to shape how growth actually happens, build the pipeline your way, and see the direct result of your work in a business that’s still writing its growth story. If you’re the type who wants ownership rather than a seat in a big marketing department, this is the one.

THE ROLE

You’ll own the business development effort end to end: finding the opportunities, building the relationships, and turning interest into instructions. The rating expertise already exists in the business. What they need is someone to get out in the market, tell the story and bring the work in alongside the partners.

Day to day you’ll be:

• Identifying and engaging potential clients across the sectors that feel business rates most keenly, from retail and logistics to hospitality and commercial property
• Building genuine relationships with property owners, occupiers and agents, understanding their rates challenges and matching them to the right advice
• Developing and running the BD strategy to grow market share and revenue
• Keeping on top of changes in legislation, government policy and market trends, and turning that into real opportunities
• Leading on pitches, proposals and client conversations
• Working closely with the rating team so new work lands cleanly and clients get looked after from day one
• Keeping pipeline, reporting and activity tracking in good order

What you’ll need:

• A proven track record in business development, ideally within property, real estate or professional services
• An understanding of UK business rates and rating legislation is a real plus, though not essential if you’re commercially sharp and quick to learn
• The confidence and credibility to open doors and hold senior conversations
• A self-starter who’s comfortable building something rather than maintaining it
• Strong relationship skills and the instinct to spot an opportunity before anyone else does

Why this one’s worth a look

Smaller firms move faster, and the people who join them early tend to grow with them. There’s a clear runway here, the autonomy to run your own patch, and the chance to make a visible mark on a business that’s going places. If you’ve felt like a small cog in a big wheel, this is the opposite of that.

Interested?

If this sounds like you, or you just want a confidential chat before committing to anything, get in touch with TML Recruitment . We’ll tell you who the client is once we’ve had a proper conversation.