Business Development Manager

• Reuters Events This full-time position is based in Canary Wharf, London with hybrid working available.

Looking for a role allowing you to grow a growing events portfolio further? The kind of role where you’re acting as a consultant with a lot of autonomy, creatively compiling and selling custom sponsorship packages that meet your clients’ needs? This might be the role for you.

Reuters Events are looking for a Business Development Manager to consult with some of the world's largest and most influential pharma and healthcare companies on behalf of one of the most trusted news and information brands. As a Business Development Manager, you'll play an active role in driving new and repeat business across our international portfolio of events, crafting tailored event sponsorship packages that meet your clients' specific goals. In this varied, lucrative and autonomous role, you'll partner with some of the world’s most renowned healthcare and pharmaceutical brands and selling a range of sponsorship packages on our thought leadership-led events.

Reuters Events combines Reuters' globally trusted brand, scale and editorial excellence with a leading portfolio of B2B events. We provide content-led conferences for professionals in a variety of specialized industry sectors including energy, pharmaceutical, automotive, insurance, finance and legal (to name a few!) to complement our extensive, in-depth business media content. We exist to deliver strategic business intelligence and foster the relationships that safeguards success at leading organisations worldwide.

About the Role

As a Business Development Manager at Reuters Events you will:

• 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.

• Work collaboratively with other executives across the Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare portfolio, selling tailored sponsorship packages to a variety of global brands.

• Use your great command of the written word to both 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

You're a fit for the role of Business DevelopmentM anager at Reuters Events, if you have:

• Demonstrable experience of selling sponsorship packages in the events industry.

• The commercial acumen to partner with new and existing clients, 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.

• The ability to craft engaging copy and written value propositions whilst building relationships with global C-level executives.

• 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 8th 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. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• *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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• *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. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• *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 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• *Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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