Business Development Executive
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will prospect and acquire SME clients, manage the full sales cycle from field contact through onboarding, and sell business accounts, insurance, funding, and card-terminal solutions. You will build referral partnerships, attend industry events, share market intelligence, and coordinate outreach with the sales team.
Requirements
- B2B business development and field-sales experience
- Financial-services, fintech, payments, business-account, commercial-insurance, or card-terminal experience
- Verbal and written communication
- Sales pitching and deal negotiation
- B2B partnership and referral-network development
- Event networking
- Ability to manage a five-day on-site and field schedule
Responsibilities
- Execute sales strategies and prospect new SME clients
- Build partnerships and close business across the designated territory
- Own the sales cycle from initial contact through onboarding
- Demonstrate and sell business accounts, insurance, funding, and card-terminal solutions
- Identify, negotiate, and manage referral partnerships
- Collaborate with the sales team on pitch strategies and market intelligence
- Represent the business at industry events and networking sessions
Benefits
- Vitality Health Insurance
- Perks and discounts through Vitality Health Insurance
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- 25 days of holiday with the option to buy additional days
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- 24 hours of paid volunteering leave per year
- Sabbatical leave