Business Development Manager

Team
Business Development
Reports to
Head of Business Development
Location
London, UK
Area of focus
UK
Role type
Permanent
Job code
TMIS-BDM-BD-002

Job purpose

Themis is a fast-growing technology and services company with a world class AML/KYC SaaS tech platform that fills a gap in the AML Screening, Investigations and Ongoing Monitoring market.

In this role the BDM will develop, own and run deals at a tactical & mid-market level within UK CDOT and across several vertical markets with a strong focus on Financial Services and associated industries. Our Target market is extensive and includes banks, FinTechs, investment managers, payments companies, legal firms and real estate, to name but a few, giving a BDM a clear pathway to success in growing their territory, using their extensive sales experience and financial crime industry knowledge.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a hungry, driven BDM with a hunting and winning mentality with the desire to make their mark on a fast-growing scale-up in the B2B FinTech SaaS space.

We are looking for people who will relish the opportunity of working:

  • In a purpose-driven organisation looking to disrupt the anti-financial crime technology market
  • With a team of talented and enthusiastic professionals
  • With clients to help them protect their businesses from financial crime through the use of the latest technology.

Responsibilities

  • Drive ARR through the successful sale of new business.
  • Originate, manage and close new business opportunities primarily within Financial Institutions across UK&I.
  • Develop and grow a robust pipeline of potential deals.
  • Articulate our value proposition to your prospect base.
  • Demo our product professionally and skilfully.
  • Use your first-class sales discovery skills to identify key client pain points and position the benefits of Themis as the product of choice to resolve their business challenges.
  • Understand our product suite and articulate the USPs of all of our modules.
  • Partner with a designated SDR, collaborating on cadence output and targeting your market via the SDR engine.
  • Share with the Product Development team the market demands for product enhancements.
  • Use HubSpot efficiently as the Customer Management system.

Experience required

  • Have a proven track record of overachievement in a new business SaaS sales role for a start-up or scale-up business, with a minimum of three years hitting target.
  • Experience of either using or selling different financial crime and compliance systems in the market or KYC platforms, or a complementary solution.
  • Exposure to solution selling using a blend of products and services to create winning propositions over multi-year timeframes.

Skills required

  • A results-driven and KPI-focused mindset, ready to take ownership of responsibilities.
  • Energy, drive to achieve and personal accountability.
  • Outstanding, demonstrated sales skills alongside oral and written communications skills, including demonstration, presentation and PowerPoint skills.
  • Ability to manage a territory and work across the business to create solutions that drive customer revenues.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Impeccable written English, and excellent verbal communication skills.
  • Interpersonal skills and the ability to develop working relationships both inside and outside the organisation.
  • A passion to help prevent Financial Crime and the capability to explain how our technology and services can help our prospects overcome their challenges.
  • A high level of empathy to allow the BDM to understand and appreciate the challenges our prospects face.
About Themis
Themis is a certified B Corporation and fast-growing technology start-up on a mission to reduce the global impact of financial crime. We partner with clients across sectors to identify and manage their unique financial crime risks using a powerful combination of insight, intelligence, and innovation.

Financial crime is a serious and evolving global threat — one that costs trillions and touches every part of society. Our cutting-edge platform empowers organisations to understand these strategic risks through an ESG and socio-economic lens, helping protect their people, customers, and communities from criminal harm. If you’re driven by purpose and want to work at the intersection of technology, ethics, and global change, Themis is where you’ll make a difference.
Impact
We are a socially responsible business that aims to reduce the impact of financial crime through its day-to-day business, increasing awareness, improving capabilities and driving long term cultural change across the private and public sectors.

We are a purpose-driven business and are working to meet the highest standards of verified social and business performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. Our impact extends further through the Themis Charitable Trust, which supports victims of the crimes we help prevent.

We’re also proud Signatories of the UN Global Compact, aligning our work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and joining a global community committed to a sustainable and ethical future.
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