Liam

Business Development Manager
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Work experience

  • Business Development Manager

    Nationwide Utilities
    2025.11-2026.04(6 months)
    • Originated C-suite relationships across a 40 GWh portfolio spanning manufacturing, commercial and hospitality operators, building a qualified pipeline of energy procurement, grid-connection and decarbonisation opportunities. • Progressed multiple energy procurement and grid-connection opportunities through the final stages of conversion across industrial, commercial and hospitality sectors. • Designed a portfolio-level infrastructure origination model enabling the business to secure exclusive landlord mandates, package sites into investable portfolios, and run competitive multi-operator procurement processes. • Structured commercial mechanics including origination fees, staged milestone payments and non-circumvention agreements, creating a repeatable, scalable revenue framework for the infrastructure division.
  • Senior Business Development Manager

    Go Zero
    2024.07-2025.06(a year)
    • Originated and closed 18 multi-site, long-term energy infrastructure agreements worth £6.3M, leading the full deal lifecycle from land acquisition and commercial structuring through to legal execution with landlords, funds and corporate stakeholders. • Built a £10M national pipeline from scratch by segmenting landlord and landowner portfolios and deploying a structured origination and market-mapping approach, materially accelerating site acquisition velocity. • Secured late-stage entry into a £1.6M, 40-site infrastructure tender by rapidly aligning commercial, technical and investment parameters under compressed timelines and achieving board-level approval to bid. • Identified and resolved early-stage legal, commercial and delivery risks across the pipeline, ensuring smooth progression from heads of terms through to construction handover.
  • Business Development Manager

    Raw
    2023.01-2024.06(a year)
    • Structured and secured a portfolio-level agreement covering 120 commercial sites, negotiating lease frameworks, access rights and long-term commercial terms with a national landlord. • Redesigned early-stage qualification to integrate commercial, grid and delivery feasibility, increasing deal conversion by 50% while reducing non-viable pipeline and accelerating time to contract. • Reduced site deployment timelines by 25% by implementing a structured pre-qualification process that aligned commercial close with construction readiness from the outset. • Built a five-vertical market-mapping and origination framework, subsequently adopted across the commercial team, that expanded qualified deal flow and standardised early-stage pipeline development.
  • Head of Business Development & Acquisitions

    Belfers Private Office
    2020.11-2022.12(2 years)
    • Originated and closed £1M+ in investment-grade land and property transactions for ultra-high-net-worth clients across Kensington, Chelsea and Tower Bridge. • Brokered long-term agreements for mixed-use land projects across sites of 5 to 100 units, developing senior relationships with Family Offices and institutional investors. • Owned the full commercial lifecycle for private and institutional landlords, negotiating renewals, resolving disputes and protecting high-value assets through commercial relationship management.
  • Business Development Manager, M&A Division

    Belvilla / OYO Hotels Group
    2020.04-2020.11(8 months)
    • Closed the company's largest ever single deal, 11 Managed Service Contracts in one remote negotiation, generating £1M in annual Gross Booking Value. • Contributed to £5M+ in M&A activity across the serviced apartments sector through deal-flow generation and acquisition target identification. • Led a team of five Business Development Managers, driving £700K+ in new business through structured coaching, pipeline reviews and commercial guidance.
  • Regional Business Development Manager

    Belvilla / OYO Hotels Group
    2019.12-2020.04(5 months)
    • Exceeded 180% of quota in Q1 2020 and led the national sales team across all commercial metrics, recognised as UK Salesperson of the Year. • Closed 52 commercial agreements within six months from a cold start, adding £500K+ in recurring revenue and establishing a repeatable new-business model for the region. • Promoted to Regional Business Development Manager within four months on the strength of deal volume, commercial impact and senior stakeholder confidence.

Educational experience

  • Anglia Ruskin University, London

    BA (Hons) International Business Management
    2018.09-2021.05(3 years)
  • Harvard University

    Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
  • Yale University

    Introduction to Negotiation
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