Location: London, Oxford, Brussels, Rome
Employment Type: Full Time
About the role:
As our new SBDM, you'll partner closely with senior leadership and consulting teams across our European offices to drive business development excellence. You'll be the go-to strategic advisor, bringing structure, innovation, and commercial impact to everything from key client engagement to firmwide growth initiatives.
This is a high-impact role with both strategic and hands on responsibilities-ideal for a commercially minded BD professional ready to shape real change.
Driving Client-Centric Growth
- Embed best-in class BD practices, tools (including AI and CRM), and behaviours across consulting teams.
- Design and deliver strategic BD plans aligned with firmwide growth goals.
- Use data to track effectiveness, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement.
Enabling Business Development Execution
- Coach and support consulting teams to enhance BD capabilities and confidence.
- Lead strategic client listening programmes and turn insights into commercial outcomes.
- Collaborate on campaigns, thought leadership, and events that elevate the Oxera brand.
Leading and Developing Teams
- Help shape the BD function's structure and resource model for the future.
- Mentor junior BD team members and foster a collaborative, high performing culture.
- Ensure seamless integration of BD activities across our European offices.
What You Bring:
- Extensive experience in business development within professional services, ideally consulting.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive client centric change.
- Strong analytical and digital fluency-comfortable with data, CRM systems, and emerging tools.
- A collaborative, strategic mindset with hands on delivery experience.Experience managing or mentoring teams in an international, matrixed environment
- Confident communication skills and a natural relationship builder.
- A proactive, commercial mindset and a passion for innovation.
Why Oxera?
Oxera is a leading economics and strategy consultancy with a growing presence across Europe. We've recently launched an ambitious new growth strategy-and this role is central to bringing it to life.
Join us, and you'll work at the intersection of economics, strategy, and business development, in a team that values innovation, inclusion, and impact. You'll have the platform to shape your role, develop your team, and make a lasting mark on our journey.