Senior Business Development Manager - Events in London

This is a full-time hybrid (in office 3 days per week) position based in London. Looking for a highly rewarding sales role allowing a great deal of autonomy? The kind of role where you’re acting as a consultant, creatively compiling and selling custom sponsorship packages? Then this might be the role for you.

Reuters Events are looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to sell tailored event sponsorship packages across our international portfolio of Life Science events. In this varied and lucrative role, you will partner with some of the world’s most renowned healthcare, technology and pharmaceutical brands and sell a range of sponsorship packages on our thought leadership-led events.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with other executives across the Life Sciences team to sell tailored sponsorship packages to a variety of global brands.
• You’ll have a particular focus on selling across events within the Healthcare portfolio, with a significant market presence in the USA.
• Report to the Head of Sales for Healthcare and Pharma. As an individual contributor, you won’t have management responsibility and will drive revenue across the healthcare portfolio as lead seller.
• Use your great command of the written word to gauge what our clients actually need, communicating value propositions tailored to their business goals.
• Be curious around changes in business markets. We’re looking for someone that enjoys learning how shifting market dynamics create challenges and opportunities for our clients, and how our events can help them navigate change.
• Work closely and collaborate with our Conference Production team to establish the best audiences and maximize the success of our conferences and events.

About You:

• Demonstrable experience in the events industry, with experience of selling sponsorship packages. If you have prior experience of working with clients in the life sciences space (or similar industries) we would love to hear more about this on your application.
• The commercial acumen to spot opportunities and drive the future growth of the pharma and healthcare portfolios.
• Excellent communication skills. We’re looking for someone who’s comfortable representing the Reuters brand when engaging with other industry-leading businesses. You’ll be comfortable crafting engaging copy and written value propositions whilst building relationships with global C-level executives.
• Demonstrable B2B sales and new business development experience, ideally in an events, conference-led or publishing setting.
• A collaborative attitude. We’re team players at Reuters Events and are looking for someone who can succeed both individually and within a team-based environment.
• The desire to progress and develop your skills further. We have an excellent (uncapped!) commission scheme that rewards your achievements and are keen to grow and invest in our sales team.
• The ability to adapt to changes in markets and articulate potential solutions to a range of stakeholders over the phone, in person and on video calls.

Please Note: Complete applications must be submitted by Sunday 22nd February 2026.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

About Us:

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.