Senior Business Development Manager

Senior Business Development Manager April 2026 (23-20)

Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

It's an incredibly exciting time within partnerships at Prostate Cancer UK. In line with the charity's ambitious 10-year fundraising strategy, partnerships are a core component in raising vital funds and awareness to help men navigate the UK's most common cancer. With nationally recognised, award winning partnerships as our platform, matched with a record high brand sentiment rating, a highly prominent cause and a marketplace looking for long term strategic partnerships, we are building the team infrastructure to maximise our strong position through the launch of two developed functions - Account Development and Business Development.

What the job involves

You'll lead our business development strategy for corporate partnerships, focusing on securing high value, purpose driven relationships with long term potential (typically 6-8 figure), and building a robust pipeline to deliver sustainable income growth.

• Own and deliver the business development plan, targeting major prospects and flagship partnerships with transformational potential.
• Identify, prioritise and cultivate opportunities across key sectors (including sport and health), shifting activity from short term, transactional asks to insight led, multi year partnerships.
• Shape and test compelling funding propositions, working with internal experts (including Communications, Black Health Equity, Research, Health Services, and Equity & Improvement) to build integrated partnership offers.
• Lead proposal development end to end: briefing colleagues, coordinating inputs, writing and reviewing pitches, and ensuring submissions are high quality, compelling and on time.
• Take overall accountability for the business development pipeline: keeping it strategically aligned, properly valued, actively progressed and accurately forecast.
• Improve performance through better pipeline discipline: growing value and volume at each stage, increasing conversion, and reducing lead times from opportunity identification to proposal submission.
• Line manage and develop a team of three experienced Business Development Managers (including sector/specialist roles), setting clear objectives and coaching for confident, high performance delivery.
• Lead and support negotiations with senior stakeholders, ensuring new partnerships protect and enhance our brand, values and reputation.
• Work closely with partnership colleagues to transition newly secured partners into account development so relationships are onboarded smoothly and set up to scale.

What we want from you

You're a strategic, commercially minded new business leader who can spot and shape big opportunities, influence at senior levels, and convert complex partnership conversations into high value, multi year income.

• Significant experience securing new, high value corporate partnerships (typically 6-8 figure) in a commercial organisation, charity and/or agency environment.
• A strong track record of delivering income through new business acquisition, with credible examples of taking prospects from first contact through to signed agreement.
• Confidence developing high value propositions and partnership packages that work for both the organisation and the partner.
• Excellent pipeline management skills, with experience improving conversion rates, forecasting and proposal turnaround times.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and navigating complex internal decision making.
• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to coach, set clear expectations and build a high performing specialist team.
• A values led approach and commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, with the judgement to ensure partnerships align with and strengthen our brand.
• Desirable: experience in sport, health, brand led or ESG focused partnerships, and/or developing transformational 7-8 figure partnerships.

Why work with us?

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men - prostate cancer. It's a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

• Generous leave entitlements that increase with service
• One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance and group income protection
• Health Cash Plan
• Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
• Loans for season tickets or cycles

This role is in salary Band 5, with a starting salary of £51,250 to £60,250 per year. We aim to pay the median salary for charity the sector. Following 12 months of successful service, colleagues will move to the midpoint of the pay band. The midpoint salary for this role is £60,250.

Our salaries reflect that the London office is our contractual place of work. We also pay a working from home allowance at the HMRC tax free rate of £312 per year.

We are committed to paying at least the London Living Wage for all roles and apply the updated rate each April.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK we're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. This includes ground breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis of prostate cancer. We'll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We also aim to be Allies to each other, not just protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Allyship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identify as an Ally.

We've also signed Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.

Our people networks

• Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues and our allies can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people
• Mind andBody - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long term illness
• Culture Club - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

How and where we work

Colleagues attend the office at least four days per month (pro rata for part time colleagues) to collaborate, build relationships, and support projects and decision making. You can choose where to work the rest of the time. Travel to the office is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

Additional in person attendance will be required during your first few months for induction and training, to support you to learn the role and get to know colleagues.

We trust colleagues to work flexibly while balancing personal commitments with the needs of the charity, and we are committed to making reasonable adjustments for colleagues with a disability, neurodiversity, or a long term physical or mental health condition.