# Business Development Manager - Create Studios

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Daresbury
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

At Keywords Studios, we are seeking a Business Development Manager to join our Create BD team. The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing work for our family of UK-based videogame studios. As part of the Create BD team, you'll play a key role in defining Keywords' excellence in game making while being a responsible, visible, partner in our exciting industry.

Key responsibilities include:

- Ignite and guide the relationships between our studios and clients, from sourcing, proposal building, and negotiation to issue resolution.

- Seek and maintain relationships with the entire gaming industry.

- Find new avenues and opportunities for our Create Studios.

- Uphold quality in our responses and communications as well as owning the RFP responses of our studios.

- Nurture our existing development relationships.

- Communicate clearly and transparently, keeping the wider teams informed.

- Uphold the quality of work our studios provide.

Requirements for the role include:

- 3 or more years' experience selling in the entertainment and/or video games industry.

- Strong understanding of game development, market trends, industry dynamics, and current industry landscape.

- Account Management and Key Account Management skills.

- High attention to detail and ability to deliver under pressure and to deadlines.

- Superb written and verbal communication skills.

- Must be self-motivated and able to operate in a remote environment.

- Must be comfortable working and communicating with exec/senior contact levels.

- Additional language skills valued.

This role will likely require periodic travel to both client sites and industry events.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- market trends
- industry dynamics
- account management
- key account management
- written communication
- verbal communication

### Nice to have
- additional language skills