The Role
Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and creating new opportunities? Are you motivated by growth, collaboration, and delivering high-quality outcomes for clients?
Edgars is seeking an experienced full-time Business Development Manager to play a pivotal role in driving our continued growth. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of a respected, award-winning planning and heritage consultancy, working alongside a talented and ambitious team.
In this role, you will combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery—identifying opportunities, leading bids, and building lasting partnerships. In your first year, you will be supported to deliver £2 million of new and repeat business, aligned with our commitment to excellence and long-term client value.
About Us
Edgars is a vibrant, forward-thinking consultancy with a clear ambition: to be the planning and heritage consultancy of choice.
Our mission is simple—delivering inspiring futures and places—for our clients, our people, and the profession we represent.
We are built on:
- Great people
- Technical excellence
- Commercial insight
- Modern thinking
- Local authority expertise
- We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture, where open communication, curiosity, and shared success are at the heart of everything we do.
We work across a diverse range of sectors, including education, heritage, residential, commercial, tourism, estates, and communities—helping clients unlock and protect the potential of their assets.
Our Values in Action At Edgars, how we work matters as much as what we achieve. We are looking for someone who embodies our values:
- Collaboration
- Building strong, trusted relationships and working closely with colleagues, clients, and partners
- Candour
- Communicating openly and honestly, with confidence to challenge constructively
- Communication
- Sharing ideas clearly and persuasively, adapting to different audiences
- Commitment to Excellence
- Striving for the highest standards in everything we deliver
- Curiosity
- Exploring new ideas, sectors, and opportunities with energy and enthusiasm
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver a strategic business development plan aligned with company growth ambitions
- Identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities across target sectors
- Build trusted, collaborative relationships with clients, partners, and industry stakeholders
- Lead the preparation of high-quality, compelling bids and proposals
- Deliver engaging presentations that clearly communicate value and expertise
- Manage and maintain a robust sales pipeline, ensuring consistent progress and conversion
- Provide clear and honest insight on opportunities, risks, and commercial decisions
- Support the development of marketing collateral and thought leadership content
- Lead and contribute to business development initiatives and events
- Maintain awareness of market trends, competitor activity, and emerging opportunities
- Contribute to the Management Team, helping shape wider business strategy
- What We’re Looking For Proven experience in business development within planning, heritage, architecture, or a related sector
- Strong and active network of industry contacts
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence, engage, and build trust
- A collaborative mindset, with experience working across multidisciplinary teams
- Confidence to challenge constructively and provide candid insight
- Strategic thinker with a proactive and results-driven approach
- Strong presentation, negotiation, and bid-writing skills
- Curious and forward-looking, with a genuine interest in industry trends and innovation
- Ability to work effectively, both independently and as part of a team
What We Offer
- Above-industry salary
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Private medical healthcare
- Death in service cover
- Payment of professional subscriptions
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- Ongoing CPD and executive coaching opportunities
- Full or part-time working considered
- Team and individual performance-related bonus
- Why Join Edgars?
- At Edgars, you’ll join a team that genuinely cares—about our work, our clients, and each other.
- You’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, contribute to an exciting growth journey, and work in a culture where your ideas, curiosity, and ambition are encouraged.
We don’t just aim to be good—we aim to be exceptional.
Apply If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and help shape the future of a growing consultancy, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and covering letter to careers@edgarslimited.co.uk.
