Relationship & Client Management

• Develop trusted relationships with directors, design leaders, project leads, commercial teams and other key decision-makers.
• Attend meetings, networking events and client engagements.
• Ensure agreed follow-ups and actions are completed promptly.
• Maintain momentum between meetings and ensure opportunities do not go cold.

Your Immediate Targets

During the initial period, the focus will be on establishing a strong and measurable target and commercial rhythm. The targets are intended as commercial benchmarks rather than a numbers exercise. Quality of relationships, relevance of opportunities and progression towards secured work are more important than simply generating activity.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Has proven experience in business development, partnerships, marketing or commercial growth within the workplace, interiors, construction, property or professional services sectors.
• Has an established network within the UK commercial interiors, construction or property market.
• Can open doors and create relationships with senior decision-makers.
• Thinks in terms of partnerships and long-term commercial relationships, not transactional sales.
• Is commercially curious and able to identify opportunities that others may overlook.
• Can combine BD with practical marketing and market-development activity.
• Is highly organised and maintains accurate records and follow-up actions.
• Is self-sufficient and comfortable taking ownership without constant direction.
• Communicates consistently and proactively.
• Is comfortable being measured on commercial outcomes, pipeline development and quality of activity.
• Has the resilience and persistence required to develop relationships over time.
• Wants to play a meaningful role in building a business, rather than simply filling a position.

What will matter most

We are particularly interested in people who demonstrate:

• Ownership — you see something that needs doing and take responsibility for progressing it.
• Consistency — you maintain momentum throughout the week rather than operating in bursts.
• Commercial judgement — you know the difference between activity and a genuine opportunity.
• Initiative — you bring ideas and opportunities to CURA rather than waiting to be given a task list.
• Communication — leadership should know where things stand without having to chase for updates.
• Commitment — you see the potential in CURA and want to help build it.

Working Arrangement

This is a full-time position, initially focused on developing CURA's UK market and commercial pipeline.

The role requires a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We are less concerned with prescribing how you structure every working day and more concerned with consistent activity, commercial progress, communication and results.

As the business develops, there is significant scope for the role to expand into new sectors and international markets, including Europe and North America.

Get in touch

If you are commercially driven, entrepreneurial and enjoy building relationships from the ground up, we'd like to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to work directly with CURA's leadership and play a meaningful role in shaping the company's next stage of growth across business development, partnerships and marketing.

We're looking for someone who wants to build something with us, not simply use the role as a stepping stone to something else.

Please send your CV, including a brief outline (no more than one page) describing how you would approach your first 90 days in the role, including your strategy for business development, partnerships and marketing. Also include 3–5 sentences explaining why this role and CURA specifically interest you, and one example of a relationship or opportunity you have personally developed from an initial conversation into a commercial opportunity.

studio@cura-design.com