Business Development Manager

Location: London, UK (hybrid, three days a week in the office) Level: Business Development Manager C3 Team: Commercial Salary: £55,000 – £75,000 + discretionary bonus Contract: Permanent Reporting To: Director of Partnerships Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities. About Kaluza Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life. With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen. What you'll do As a Business Development Manager, you will be the driving force behind our early-stage pipeline. Your mission is to spark meaningful conversations with prospects, consultancies, and tech partners, manage marketplace sales, and drive high-impact demand generation activities. Responsibilities: • Large-Scale Outreach & Meeting Generation: Own, manage, and execute high-volume outreach campaigns to systematically generate qualified meetings. You will skillfully leverage event applications, social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn), and content-led messaging to hook target prospects.Executive-Level Advocacy: Confidently manage and execute targeted outreach on behalf of senior leadership members, acting as their proxy to open doors and secure meetings within high-value target markets. • Pipeline Qualification: Identify, qualify, and nurture inbound and outbound leads, ensuring a seamless handoff to the wider Commercial team. • Early-Stage Engagement & Demos: Initiate and lead early-stage conversations with prospects and partners. Confidently deliver compelling product demos that showcase our value proposition. • Marketplace & Tech Partner Lead Gen: Drive proactive lead generation and demand-gen activities through AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces. • Commercial Ownership of Growth Activities: Take full commercial ownership of Growth-led initiatives, including advising on event plans, driving event attendance among clients, prospects, and partners, and maximizing the ROI of marketing campaigns. What you'll bring Ideally, you'll have: • Multi-Channel Outreach Expertise: A proven track record of managing and undertaking large-scale outbound communications across digital channels, including social media, content distribution, and event-specific networking apps. • Industry Expertise: Proven experience working within the energy or utility sector, giving you immediate context and credibility with prospects. • Cloud Ecosystem Awareness: A solid working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Microsoft Azure) and how cloud marketplaces operate. • Commercial Spark & Drive: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a track record of opening doors and initiating early-stage B2B conversations. • Operating Autonomy: Comfortable advancing prospects and projects with moderate independence, but values collaboration and strategic alignment. • Growth Mindset: A collaborative, results-driven approach with experience supporting or executing demand-generation activities (events, content campaigns, etc.). What will set you apart: • Executive Ghostwriting: Experience managing outreach effectively on