Business Development Lead - Europe - Engine Starling

Position: Business Development Lead - Europe - Engine by Starling
Description Engine by Starling, was born out of Starling: the UK’s first and leading digital bank. Today, Starling delivers intuitive, customer-centric tools to help over 4.6 million people and small businesses to be ‘good with money’. We believe that great technology has the ability to empower customers to save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

Engine is on a mission to promote this philosophy around the world.

Engine is a cloud-native, bank-built SaaS platform. We provide a comprehensive and cloud-native  solution to power banks around the world, who share our ambition of building businesses designed to evolve, innovate, and meet growing customer demands. The SaaS technology platform is now available to banks, building societies and credit unions around the world, enabling them to benefit from the modern digital features and efficient back-office processes that has helped Starling to achieve its success.

At Engine, we follow five guiding principles: listen, keep it simple, do the right thing, own it, and aim for greatness. Having launched in 2022, we are a rapidly-growing organisation who adopts the same agile mindset as our technology. As such, we embrace change, the reimagination of processes and have cultivated an environment where our colleagues - and partners - can design, build and collaborate openly, with a strong degree of ownership and empowerment to get things done.

Hybrid Working Engine is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Sydney, Dubai, Toronto and New York. This role will be based in London. International travel will be necessary on an ad hoc basis, depending on the client and nature of the engagement.

About the Role The role offers the opportunity to own, manage and lead a European sub-region, scaling Business Development with the support of a focused central team. As the Sales Lead in Europe, you will be responsible for cultivating relationships at an executive level, overseeing client and partner engagements - including Discovery exercises and seeing programmes through to completion. This position also encompasses the opportunity to become a Client Relationship Director for Engine’s clients within the region, acting as a trusted advisor, partner and executive sponsor, ensuring their needs are heard and fulfilled during both Implementation and Run phases.

Our ambition is to build autonomous, highly-skilled teams, with a deep understanding of the local market, across the Nordics, Southern Europe and Central Eastern Europe. While you will drive deal execution within a defined European cluster, you will apply the central European value proposition and sales playbook consistently.

What you'll get to do Driving and defining the end-to-end execution plan of Engine’s market entry in geographies with high potential for digital banking transformation

Developing and managing senior relationships with banking and ecosystem stakeholders, across your allocated cluster

Progress and close opportunities using Engine’s established go-to-market model, providing executive sponsorship and expertise during commercial and contracting negotiations

Ensuring consistency across Engine’s messaging, positioning and deal motion across geographies

Co-ordinating closely with central Proposition, Solution Architecture and Enablement teams, to develop solutions which resonate strongly with the local market

Providing structured, region-specific market feedback

Scaling a local integrated team in alignment with business pipeline

Requirements

You possess 8+ years of senior enterprise or platform business development experience, across multiple markets

You have a track record of closing complex deals, which engage multiple stakeholders across the business

You have experience operating within centrally governed or matrixed organisations

Banking or regulated industry exposure is strongly preferred (ideally retail or business banking), with a deep understanding of the challenges relating to bank IT systems, change management and transformation

You have existing, trusted relationships with bank executives within the region

You have experience in managing and scaling teams Your skills

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