Business Development Manager/Director

<p>FrankieOne's UK and Nordic markets are wide open: tightening AML and financial crime regulation, KYC/KYB budgets under real board-level scrutiny, and incumbents who haven't kept pace with orchestration-led buying.</p><p>We've already got a GM and presales team on the ground in London. What's missing is the person who turns that groundwork into signed revenue.</p><p>Are you ready to build a region from the ground up, not manage one that's already been built? If so, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p>As the Business Development Manager/Director - EMEA, you will own and grow FrankieOne's presence across a named-account territory of 30–50 enterprise and upper-mid-market targets in the <strong>UK and Nordics</strong> — a market where identity, fraud, KYC and AML solutions aren't nice-to-haves; they're the licence to operate.</p><p>Reporting to the <strong>GM, Europe</strong>, you'll run the full cycle end to end: qualification through commercial close, security review, DPA/MSA negotiation and procurement. Deals typically run 4–9 months and involve 6–10 stakeholders — Head of Financial Crime/MLRO, Head of Risk, Product, Engineering and Procurement among them.</p><p>This isn't a territory with brand recognition to lean on. You'll be building pipeline and credibility from a standing start, architecting consumption-based commercial models — per-verification pricing, volume tiers, minimum commits, orchestration vs. bundled-vendor economics — and feeding what you learn about pricing pressure, coverage gaps and competitive displacement straight back into Product and the EU operating plan.</p><h5>Your Ticket to Success</h5><h5>Territory &amp; Pipeline Ownership</h5><ul><li><p>Build and run a named-account territory of 30–50 enterprise and upper-mid-market targets across the UK and Nordics.</p></li><li><p>Own an annual new ARR quota, plus expansion revenue in the accounts you land.</p></li><li><p>Develop your own pipeline in a market with limited brand recognition — no inbound safety net.</p></li></ul><h5>Consultative, Compliance-Led Selling</h5><ul><li><p>Navigate multi-stakeholder deals — typically 6–10 stakeholders including Head of Financial Crime/MLRO, Head of Risk, Product, Engineering and Procurement.</p></li><li><p>Hold credible, unassisted conversations on KYC/KYB, AML screening, sanctions, PEP and perpetual KYC.</p></li><li><p>Run 4–9 month enterprise cycles from qualification through security review, DPA/MSA negotiation and procurement sign-off.</p></li></ul><h5>Commercial &amp; Deal Architecture</h5><ul><li><p>Structure consumption-based commercial models: per-verification pricing, volume tiers, minimum commits, and orchestration vs. bundled-vendor economics.</p></li><li><p>Defend price against procurement-led cost-reduction mandates, backed by a real grasp of unit economics and the margin implications of over-verification.</p></li><li><p>Forecast honestly — no sandbagging, no happy ears — using MEDDPICC, Command of the Message or equivalent.</p></li></ul><h5>Market Intelligence &amp; Category Building</h5><ul><li><p>Feed structured market feedback into Product and the EU operating plan — pricing pressure, coverage gaps, competitive displacement patterns.</p></li><li><p>Operate with genuine autonomy, reporting into a GM who's also building the market — low supervision, high accountability.</p></li></ul><h5>In a Previous Life, You Have</h5><ul><li><p>7+ years closing enterprise deals with £250k+ ACV in B2B SaaS within FinTech or RegTech, including at least three years selling into regulated financial services — with evidence of consistent quota attainment at that deal size, not one outlier year.</p></li><li><p>Sold to compliance, risk or financial crime buyers, and can hold your own on KYC/KYB, AML screening, sanctions, PEP, perpetual KYC or transaction monitoring without a solutions engineer translating for you.</p></li><li><p>Built a territory with little brand recognition — founding-BDM or first-in-region experience, or a documented move from a market-leading vendor to a challenger where you still hit number.</p></li><li><p>Comfort navigating technical and API-led products — integration, latency, data residency and false-positive/pass-rate discussions, without deferring every question.</p></li><li><p>Commercial literacy on consumption pricing — unit economics, margin implications of over-verification, and how to defend price against a procurement-led cost-reduction mandate.</p></li><li><p>A rigorous qualification methodology (MEDDPICC, Command of the Message or equivalent) and an honest forecast.</p></li><li><p>Genuine autonomy — comfortable with low supervision and high accountability.</p></li></ul><h5><strong>Also Great If You've Got</strong></h5><ul><li><p>Direct experience in identity verification, fraud, or AML — from a vendor such as Sumsub, Trulioo, Entrust/Onfido, Veriff, Persona, Alloy, Socure, Fourthline, or from an orchestration platform.</p></li><li><p>Crypto/digital-assets exchange relationships, or iGaming operator relationships.</p></li><li><p>Nordic market experience.</p></li><li><p>Experience selling through or with data/screening partners.</p></li></ul>