Business Development Executive

Overview

HURST is a leading firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, providing a full range of audit, tax, corporate finance and advisory services.

We are looking for a proactive and highly organised Business Development Executive to support our growth ambitions by strengthening our pipeline management, improving CRM discipline, and coordinating targeted outreach activity.

This is a key role in ensuring our business development efforts are well-managed, data-driven, and consistently followed through.

Key Responsibilities

CRM & Data Management (HubSpot)

• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of HubSpot, ensuring all data is up to date and reliable
• Add new contacts, companies and relevant intelligence to the system
• Enrich existing records with meaningful insights to support relationship building
• Promote best practice use of HubSpot across the firm

Pipeline & Activity Tracking

• Track business development activity across teams, ensuring visibility of progress
• Monitor next steps, follow-ups and key actions to maintain momentum in opportunities
• Support reporting on pipeline activity and BD performance

Campaign Coordination

• Coordinate targeted and topical outreach campaigns aligned to firm priorities
• Work with partners and service lines to identify campaign themes and target audiences
• Ensure campaigns are executed effectively and followed up appropriately

Events & Engagement

• Manage event invitations, attendance tracking and communications
• Coordinate follow-up activity post-events to maximise ROI
• Support the planning and delivery of BD events and initiatives

Skills & Experience

• Experience in a business development, marketing or CRM-focused role (professional services experience desirable)
• Strong working knowledge of CRM systems (HubSpot preferred, but not essential)
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders effectively
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal
• Proactive, with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through

Personal Attributes

• Commercially aware with an interest in business development
• Highly organised and process-driven
• Collaborative and able to work across teams and senior stakeholders
• Curious and keen to continuously improve systems and processes

Why Join HURST

• Be part of a growing, ambitious firm, part of the Dains group
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the business
• Opportunity to shape and improve BD processes and impact growth
• Supportive, collaborative culture

• Officially a Great Place to Work !