Strategic Account Director (Banking)

Location: Remote, based in London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global data, analytics, and technology company that helps financial institutions, employers, employees, and government agencies make informed decisions.

What you will do

• Build strategic relationships with directors, divisional heads, and C-level stakeholders across banking and financial services.
• Hunt for new business, identify revenue opportunities, and manage the sales process from presentation through contract close.
• Develop account sales plans and tailored hirify.global solutions that demonstrate client return on investment and drive user adoption.
• Lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with consultants to create and deliver strategic client solutions.
• Own financial plans, forecasts, account reporting, and Salesforce data quality across client divisions and product groups.
• Monitor market, regulatory, competitive, and technology trends while managing and developing account management and business development staff.

Requirements

• Experience in banking and financial services, including scaling medium to large-sized banks.
• Demonstrated success in new business development, revenue hunting, and complex pricing negotiations.
• Experience leading complex, high-value customer relationships of £1m or more, or equivalent strategic relationship management experience.
• Experience managing a top-20 account, multiple lines of business, and teams delivering multi-year sales exceeding £250,000.
• Strong resilience, commercial performance, senior-level presentation skills, and experience managing long sales cycles.
• Ability to work remotely from London, United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Top-tier advisory or consultancy experience, including Big Four experience supporting banks.
• Senior commercial experience in lending or knowledge of consumer, commercial, and marketing data.
• Credit Reference Agency experience.
• Experience selling and leading consultancy projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Contributory pension, life cover, income protection, healthcare, enhanced maternity and sick pay.
• 26 days of holiday plus a birthday day off, with the option to buy and sell holiday days.
• Flexible benefits including cycle-to-work, travel, gym, dining, leisure, financial, savings, and mobile discounts.
• Free credit checks and access to a global online learning platform.
• Inclusion, diversity, wellbeing, and employee engagement forums.