SyndicatedFractional ExecutiveBasingstoke, England, United Kingdom
Full-time Business Development Manager, Data & Innovation, UL Solutions
FULL-TIME EXEC JOB · PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES SECTOR · BASINGSTOKE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

Full-time Business Development Manager, Data & Innovation at UL Solutions, based in Basingstoke. Full posting below, with the day rate stated or estimated with its basis.
Full-time Business Development Manager, Data & Innovation — the posting in full
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What the posting asks · quoted from the listing
- Years
Approximately 5+ years in business development, product management, product
- Must-have
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant
UL Solutions is seeking a Business Development Manager, UK and Europe, Data &
Innovation to support the definition, scoping, and growth of digital, data, and
technology-enabled offerings, including Global Compliance Management (GCM).
This role sits between the customer and the offering. The person gathers
customer requirements, documents how compliance and market access problems show
up in practice, and works with Product, Technical, Operations, Marketing, and
Sales teams to define what the offering needs to do, how it is packaged, and how
it is explained. The role supports customer conversations as the product expert
rather than as the account owner.
This is a non-commissioned product role. It does not carry a sales quota or
account ownership. Success is measured by the quality of requirements captured,
the clarity and usability of the offering, and the adoption of the solutions the
role supports.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Customer Requirements and Offering Definition
- Gather and document customer requirements, use cases, and unmet needs, and
- translate them into clear input for product and offering decisions.
- Analyze customer, service, and market data to identify gaps in the current
- offering portfolio and recommend where to extend, package, or retire
- capability.
- Support pricing, packaging, and positioning decisions for new and evolving
- digital solutions, working with Product, Finance, and Marketing.
Solution Scoping and Product Enablement
- Act as the product point of contact for sales, account, and global account
- teams on scope, capability, limitations, and fit.
- Support solution scoping for customer opportunities, including requirements,
- assumptions, dependencies, and handoffs to delivery.
- Build product collateral, demo content, discovery guides, and use cases so
- the offering is explained consistently and can be repeated at scale.
Customer Discovery and Solution Fit
- Lead product discovery sessions that start with the customer’s compliance or
- market access problem, not a predetermined solution.
- Assess whether the current offering meets the need, document the gap when it
- does not, and bring in the right technical or regulatory expert.
- Support pilots and early adoption, track how customers actually use the
- solution, and feed findings, objections, and competitive insight back to
- Product and leadership.
Product Commercialization and Performance Analysis
- Support launch and commercialization of digital, software-enabled, and
- AI-enabled offerings, including readiness checks, launch materials, and
- internal training.
- Use CRM, Power BI, usage data, and market data to track offering performance,
- adoption, and conversion, and to build simple business cases for investment.
- Turn recurring custom work into standard, repeatable product components with
- defined scope, delivery model, and pricing.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant
- experience.
- Approximately 5+ years in business development, product management, product
- marketing, solutions consulting, commercialization, or a related
- customer-facing product role.
- Demonstrated ability to gather customer requirements and turn them into
- offering definition, scope documents, or product improvements.
- Strong discovery, communication, presentation, and relationship-management
- skills, and the ability to influence across functions without direct
- authority.
- Working knowledge of technical, regulatory, digital, or software-enabled
- solutions, and the ability to explain how they work and what they deliver.
- Self-directed, comfortable in an evolving environment, and willing to travel
- within the region as needed.
Preferred
- Experience in testing, inspection and certification; product compliance;
- regulatory services; market access; software/SaaS; digital transformation;
- cybersecurity; or another technical B2B environment.
- Experience defining or commercializing software, subscription, or
- recurring-revenue offerings for complex enterprise customers.
- Experience using CRM, Power BI, or similar tools to analyze customer and
- commercial opportunities.
- Experience developing or launching new products, service offerings, pilots,
- or go-to-market packages.
- Familiarity with regional data-privacy and outreach requirements
- What we offer:
- Total Rewards: We understand that rewards are an important consideration as you
plan the next step in your career. Salary range varies by location and local
market conditions and is based on multiple factors, including job-related
knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and other factors.
Disclaimer: This role is gender-neutral and open to all qualified applicants,
regardless of gender identity or expression.
What you’ll experience working for ULS:
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the
way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on
it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software
offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the
name of safety science.
Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the
work we do, visit https://www.ul.com
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