Call/email Alisdair at Integritas for a full job description and an application form.
Position: Business Development Manager
Location: Remote/home base with regular travel across the South East
Salary: Up to £50K & competitive performance related bonus (OTE £68,750 to c.£75K for exceeding targets) plus unlimited enhanced scheme.
Hours: Full time
Qualifications/skills:
Business Development Management experience within the education and/or care sector
The ability to forge and develop strong business relationships.
Understanding of statutory funding in children’s and/or adult services.
Understanding of special educational needs and disability in children and young people/adults.
Excellent negotiation skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to represent the organisation at all levels, including national, regional and local government level.
Able to travel extensively within the South East (including some overnight stay).
The role:
This organisation is the sixth-largest provider of SEN educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.
They are currently seeking a Business Development Manager for their South East (SE) region, who is looking for the opportunity to build skills and knowledge, and further their career in Business Development.
Working closely with the Senior Business Development Manager, the role is key to ensuring that the group are considered the provider of choice to support children, young people and adults with special needs in the South East region.
You will be trained in all aspects of the role, allowing you to take responsibility for developing new opportunities and maximising existing partnerships; to ensure that the group's services are considered by local authorities to be an integral part of their sufficiency strategies.
Key to this role will be your ability to form and build positive relationships and a deep sense of trust with funders and influencers and wide range of stakeholders within local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Working with the BDM, you will collaborate with Principals, Marketing, Placement Managers and other key staff to ensure that you can promote the group's current services and future provision to a wide range of stakeholders.
Naturally; you’ll work to a set of clear KPIs and targets and be expected to provide regular reports on progress.
The role will give you a great opportunity to identifying new funding streams, entry into new markets and to build unique customer relationships.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.
