Business Development Manager

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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Mooncolony

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

📣 Marketing

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

Marketing • Gaming • Media

Mooncolony is a concept art and illustration studio specializing in providing high-quality 2D art outsourcing services to the video game industry. They collaborate with top-tier game studios globally, offering services such as concept art, illustration, character design, and art direction. Mooncolony focuses on creating memorable visual storytelling by handpicking artists for each project, ensuring seamless integration with clients' production pipelines. Their work includes projects for prominent games like Hearthstone and World of Warcraft, and they provide marketing art, cinematic illustrations, and avatar designs. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and communication, Mooncolony delivers premium art solutions to inspire and enhance game development.

📋 Description

• Own and develop Mooncolony's business development strategy and commercial pipeline • Identify priority markets and target accounts and proactively generate new business through outreach, referrals and existing industry relationships • Qualify and progress opportunities to align with capabilities, production capacity and commercial objectives • Build relationships with prospective clients and senior decision-makers across the games industry • Manage opportunities from initial engagement through proposal, commercial negotiation and contract • Collaborate with Production, Art and Finance on scoping, pricing, feasibility and commercial viability • Work alongside the external business development representative on relevant introductions and warm opportunities • Maintain BD processes, CRM and forecasting • Ensure clear handover of converted projects into Production • Collaborate with the Founder, Production, Art, Finance and Marketing teams and external representation

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years' business development, sales or partnerships experience within the games industry, game development, art outsourcing or closely related creative production environments • Strong, established games industry network, with relationships across relevant studios, publishers and industry decision-makers • Proven track record of proactively generating new business and managing and closing complex B2B sales opportunities • Strong commercial judgement, relationship-building and negotiation skills • Experience developing BD strategies, identifying target accounts and managing commercial pipelines, CRM and forecasting • Ability to work closely with creative and production teams, translating client requirements into commercially viable opportunities • Comfortable working in a founder-led, growing studio and building on existing processes to bring greater structure and consistency to business development • Experience in game art outsourcing or co-development, working with AAA/AA developers and publishers, and participation in events such as GDC, Gamescom or XDS would be highly advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Transparent commission structure • 29 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) • One additional day's annual leave for each completed year of service • Mental Health & Wellbeing Days • Family friendly leave • Pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution on qualifying earnings, with salary sacrifice available • Private medical, dental and optical insurance for you, your cohabiting partner and dependent children • Life assurance • Employee Assistance Programme • Eligibility for a discretionary annual profit-related bonus, subject to company performance and applicable scheme rules • Professional development support