Deal Origination Director

Deal Origination Lead (Director level opportunity - Corporate finance business development) Leeds or Sheffield. £70,000 - £100,000 base depending on experience and sector knowledge, plus significant, uncapped bonus opportunities. (Full reward package discussed during application stage).

About us Translink Corporate Finance UK brings together a 25 strong team of M&A specialists. We advise on a range of private company M&A with sector expertise across technology, business services, industrials, energy and healthcare. As part of BHP and the wider Sumer Group, we offer clients the strength of a national platform with the agility and personal service of a specialist advisory team.

We are an award-winning practice, over the years we have been awarded several accolades such as Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year and Deal of the Year (£25m+). We are also officially certified as a Great Place to Work, reflecting our commitment to building a high-performing, collaborative and supportive environment. At Translink, we're ambitious about growth, but we're focused on growing the right way.

We're looking for a commercially minded, relationship-led professional to join our Corporate Finance team in a newly created role focused on generating high-quality opportunities across the business. This is not a traditional sales role. It's about building trusted relationships, spotting opportunities early and starting conversations that lead to valuable advisory work, whilst contributing to building the firms origination engine.

You'll work alongside some of the region's most experienced Corporate Finance professionals, connecting ambitious business owners, investors and intermediaries with the expertise they need to achieve their next stage of growth. Blending strategy with hands-on execution, you'll have the freedom to shape our approach to origination while helping build a scalable platform for future growth. From day one, you'll play a hands-on role in originating opportunities and, over time, help introduce more structured and scalable ways of working.

If you enjoy opening doors, connecting people and influencing outcomes, you'll thrive in this role which also has the potential for leadership and equity participation, impact dependant. Lead and evolve our Corporate Finance new business origination strategy, identifying opportunities with owner-managed businesses, investors, management teams and intermediaries, while also creating opportunities across the wider BHP business. Actively represent the firm in the market through in-person networking, industry events and client meetings, staying close to sector trends, deal activity and emerging opportunities.

Build and execute targeted outreach campaigns, using market insight, sector knowledge and recent deal activity to create meaningful conversations and convert prospects into qualified opportunities. Contribute to the build of a sophisticated, technology led, repeatable origination engine. Develop compelling, personalised approaches that resonate with business owners and senior decision-makers, managing opportunities from initial contact through to successful handover to our advisory teams.

Build and nurture a strong network of founders, CEOs, CFOs, private equity investors, banks, lawyers and other key introducers, strengthening both your own market presence and BHP's profile. Work closely with Partners, sector teams and Marketing to maximise market visibility, create targeted introductions and support strategic growth initiatives. Maintain a high-quality pipeline of opportunities, tracking activity and performance while providing valuable market intelligence, sector insight and feedback to help shape future growth priorities.

You may currently be working within Corporate Finance, professional services, accountancy, private equity, banking, business advisory or another consultative B2B environment where trust, credibility and long sales cycles are the norm.