Business Development Associate (CEO's Office)

About Vorsprung

Vorsprung is a growing UK business distributing home EV chargers to B2B customers. We are entrepreneurial, with ambitious plans for growth, and we are looking for an exceptional Business Development Associate to work directly alongside our CEO and help drive the next stage of the business.

This is not a PA or traditional executive assistant role. There will be some coordination involved when working closely with a CEO, but the purpose of the role is to build, sell, solve problems and grow a business.

The Role

About 50% of your time will focus on business development and commercial growth, with the rest spent alongside the CEO on projects and priorities across the business. No two weeks look exactly the same.

Business Development & Partnerships

• Identifying and approaching potential B2B customers

• Developing new commercial partnerships

• Researching new markets, sectors and sales channels

• Building a B2B pipeline and following opportunities through to a commercial outcome

• Preparing proposals and supporting negotiations

We want someone who can create opportunities where none currently exist.

CEO Projects & Execution

• Researching new commercial opportunities and analysing competitors

• Managing projects from idea through to completion

• Supporting new product and market launches

• Improving internal processes and using AI and automation to work smarter

• Preparing analysis to support decisions

You'll have visibility across the whole company rather than being confined to one department.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a recent graduate with genuine entrepreneurial drive.

You don't need business experience. What we want to see is evidence that you make things happen: you've started something, sold something, built something or led something. That might be a side business, a reselling hustle, a university society you grew, a campaign you ran, an event you organised, or a part-time job where you took on far more than was asked.

Your mindset and initiative matter more to us than your degree subject or grades. You should be:

• Entrepreneurial: you naturally look for opportunities and better ways of doing things

• Commercially minded and interested in how businesses grow

• Confident communicating with customers, partners and senior people

• Comfortable picking up the phone and building new relationships

• Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects

• Resourceful: when you don't know something, you work out how to find the answer

• Curious about technology, AI and new ways of working

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 3-6 months, we'd expect you to be:

• Generating new revenue opportunities

• Opening doors to new customers and commercial partnerships

• Building a B2B pipeline

• Taking ownership of important projects

• Becoming someone the CEO can hand a problem to and trust to drive it forward

Why Join Vorsprung?

You'll work directly alongside the CEO, not several layers removed from decision-making. You'll see first-hand how commercial, product and strategic decisions are made, and you'll have the freedom to propose ideas and then build them. For someone entrepreneurial, that breadth of exposure is far greater than a typical graduate role offers. As Vorsprung grows, we want you to grow with us.

How to Apply

With your application, tell us in 3-4 lines about something you started or made happen, and what came of it.

Job type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000-£35,000 per year

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:30pm

Location: In person, Wood Green, London (N22)

Right to work in the UK required