Business Development and Innovation Manager

Business Development and Innovation Manager

Closing date for applications: 10 Nov 2025

Part-Time Fixed-Term Contract

Locations: E, Hybrid

Orchestras Live is seeking a Business Development and Innovation Manager to provide strategic leadership, build and manage a sales pipeline with products and services that will generate new sources of income.

You will lead the delivery of Orchestras Live's Business Development and Innovation Strategy. As Business Development and Innovation Manager, your key focus will be to grow earned income through securing clients for paid products and services - current and new - that stem from Orchestras Live's expertise, reinforcing our brand, impact and values.

Our strategy reflects our ambition to develop a dynamic approach to grow earned income, extending the benefits of our expertise through a developing client base and creating new, innovative products. Developed in 2023 and implemented from 2024, it has already achieved above initial targets and demonstrated potential to grow. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a big impact within our friendly team, on the organisation itself and across the cultural sector.

Responsibilities

• project management
• driving the sales pipeline
• writing scopes of work
• pricing strategy
• horizon scanning to identify/respond to new opportunities and develop new products and services
• monitoring and evaluating delivery and return from individual services

You will work closely with our Stakeholder Engagement Team to drive visibility of Orchestras Live's expertise and consultancy offer through new products and services.

This is a part-time role (40% FTE) for an initial fixed term of one year, renewable on performance against agreed targets and with a prospect for review of remuneration in light of income generation achieved and forecast, after 12 months.