Business Development Manager; Sustainability

Business Development Manager

Are you passionate about climate action and sustainability? Do you thrive in a fast‑paced, consultative sales environment? Schneider Electric Advisory Services is growing its UK Business Development team and is looking for an energetic, driven Business Development Manager to help organisations take meaningful action on climate change.

As a Business Development Manager, you will lead on winning new business and growing existing client accounts across the UK & Ireland — typically within FTSE 100/250 and large corporate environments. Working closely with Sales and Sustainability Consulting teams, you’ll identify opportunities, build strong relationships, and close high‑value deals.

• Drive new business development through online and offline lead generation
• Manage and grow existing client accounts
• Lead and support sales meetings, proposals, and pitches
• Qualify inbound leads in collaboration with Marketing
• Contribute to the improvement of sales collateral and service offerings
• Capture accurate data in the CRM and provide reliable reporting
• Collaborate with advisory teams to ensure exceptional client delivery
• Communicate market insights and customer feedback internally

• 3+ years’ proven sales success within sustainability, carbon, environmental or energy services
• Strong understanding of climate action, sustainability, and related markets
• Track record of closing significant business with FTSE‑level clients
• Confident in consultative selling, relationship building, and communication
• Proactive, hands‑on, and comfortable with outreach, travel, and supporting colleagues
• Passionate about sustainability and eager to continuously learn
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong drive to succeed
• Team‑oriented, collaborative, and people‑focused
• High integrity, excellent communication, and strong relationship‑building skills
• Energetic, motivated, and commercially astute

Competitive salary & Bonus Scheme, 28 Days Annual Leave + Public Holidays, Holiday Buy programme, Pension Scheme, Employee Share Ownership Programme, Various Health & Wellbeing Support Options, Gym Flex, Career Hub (internal mobility opportunities + access to mentors & projects globally), Shopping & Dining Discounts, Learning Portal and much more.

At Schneider Electric, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of our organisation, it's an integral part of our history, culture, and identity. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve. As a result, our teams are stronger to drive the company's future.

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When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!

€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations

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Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

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