Business Development Consultant - Engine by Starling

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to launch new digital banks or modernise existing banks, on our technology.

Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.

Starling Bank has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, efficient back-office processes, and a modern highly resilient cloud-native platform that has enabled Starling's success.

As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we’re looking for someone who will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world.

Joining Engine by Starling now will give you the opportunity to have an impact and be involved in shaping the future of a high growth company at the early stages of its journey.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Travel (including international) may be necessary depending on the client and nature of the engagement.

About the Role

The role offers the opportunity to meet with a wide range of potential clients, listen to their needs and explore how Engine can help. You will work closely with the Product Management and Engineering functions to create, shape and develop new long term sustainable relationships for Engine. You will also develop vibrant relationships with our consulting and implementation partners.

We’re looking for versatile, adaptable individuals, who enjoy the challenge of a varied and collaborative role. You’ll enjoy problem solving, getting to the detail, understanding how clients can make the best use of our product, and helping new clients launch successful new propositions and businesses.

What you'll get to do

• Supporting early stage conversations, running client workshops and demos, helping to identify and qualify genuine opportunities.
• Contributing to marketing activities and conferences, elevating the awareness and understanding of Engine’s brand and proposition in the market, ensuring that we build a reputation based on trust and excellence.
• Fostering and maintaining strong relationships with our implementation partners, driving collaborative business development activities and go-to-market strategies.
• Taking ownership of selected strategic opportunities. Being the client’s advocate throughout, building a dialogue and trusted relationship with them, and understanding their strategic vision, issues and needs.
• Project managing opportunities and building the client’s confidence in our platform and organisation, bringing the technical expertise to the discussions, and following through reliably on our promises.
• Managing commercial and contractual conversations.
• Working with our product and engineering teams through the Discovery and Delivery phases providing client relationship and commercial support
• Helping clients to understand how Engine can address their issues, through dialogue and through structured analysis and presentations.

Future development

We want to develop future leaders by giving people the opportunity to move between teams and build experience in a variety of roles, in business development, product management, delivery and engineering. At the same time we are expanding internationally and establishing regional offices in key markets around the world. We expect that, after an initial period in Business Development, you will have the option (but not the obligation) to move to a new role, either in a different function, or in a different part of the world.

Requirements

• You have worked for a few years in a reputable consulting organisation and gained experience across a number of banks and situations, and you are now looking to apply your advisory skills into practice

• You have experience in financial services (ideally retail or business banking) and an understanding of issues and challenges in relation to bank IT systems and projects

Your skills

• You are inquisitive with strong analytical skills and like the detail of understanding client issues, needs and concerns
• You have a technical aptitude and curiosity
• You have the confidence to ask insightful questions and engage in conversation with senior bank executives
• The ability to be self motivated in a highly autonomous environment, in a collaborative team with a flat structure
• You have strong presentation and facilitation skills
• You have attention to detail but you can also see the big picture and articulate a value proposition
• You can adapt your communication style to different stakeholders (senior clients, consulting organisations, engineering functions)
• Desirably but not essentially you will also have European Language skills

Interview process

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

• Interview with someone from the BD team
• Interview with Chief Commercial Officer
• Final interview with someone else from the Senior Leadership Team

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Incentives refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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