Business Development Manager Slave Free Alliance

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labour exploitation. We have active programmes in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 200,000 adults and children a year.

Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for you. Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager to join our Slave Free Alliance team on a full time basis. The Business Development Manager will play an integral role in developing and delivering a new business development strategy. The ideal candidate will have strong organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure. Good time management skills, creative problem solving and decisiveness are essential for this role.

Main Duties

• New business development.
• Build a sales pipeline to develop new & nurture existing relationships with businesses in the UK. This will involve “cold calling” businesses.
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive business development strategy.
• Following-up on marketing qualified leads, replying to enquiries, converting leads.
• Writing proposals, creating and delivering presentations, arranging and facilitating meetings, taking responsibility for overall relationships with key stakeholders in target businesses.
• Work cross-functionally to develop compelling proposals for prospective SFA members/clients.
• Provide monthly revenue forecasts for new business.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure SFA service contracts are delivered on time and to the agreed specification.
• Be one of the key representatives for SFA in the UK.
• Support International SFA projects as required.
• Account Management of SFA Client base and newly on-boarded Members until point of handover.

We expect all staff to understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Key Result Areas

• Financial performance. Deliver the budgeted monthly new income for SFA in the UK.
• Development and execution of a sales strategy to achieve business objectives.
• Develop a sales pipeline that delivers new SFA memberships, training and consultancy services.
• Provide accurate income forecasts.
• Provide insights for SFA to develop new products and services that deliver on business’s needs.
• Identify and nurture collaboration partnerships to support budgeted income & profit targets.
• Identify profitable opportunities to grow SFA’s scale and influence in the UK.

As part of Hope for Justice/Slave Free Alliance, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 1 day Marriage Leave
• Birthday Day
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers
• Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family
• Professional development opportunities
• Professional memberships paid
• Flexible and hybrid working

Role Details

• Job type: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
• Salary: Up to £40,000 based on experience
• Closing date: 30th January 2026
• Location: Hybrid – within UK, with travel to Manchester when required

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Personal data of the selected candidate(s) may be transmitted to INTERPOL for a security check for the purpose of identifying threats the candidate could pose to children and vulnerable persons in regard to sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment offences. We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.