Job Title: Business Development Manager
Location: Leeds, UK (4 days per week in office)
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (+ OTE)
Due to rapid growth within the business, we’re looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to join our amazing sale team at Leep Talent!
We are looking for someone with experience of the apprenticeship market in England to work with new customers and to generate apprenticeship starts Leep Talent and Leep Trade, both part of Leep Group. You will have the support of a national company and the resources of a business with learning at the heart of everything that it does to embark on a career in sales with all of the rewards that it can bring.
Supported by our marketing, business development and apprenticeship resourcing functions, you will manage the start to end sales process, creating new business opportunities and managing existing client relationships. If you're excited at the prospect of learning at your own pace and thriving in a fast-paced, high-energy, high-reward culture, get in touch!
Main Responsibilities
- Promote Leep Group proposition through telephone prospecting, Teams meetings and LinkedIn outreach, ensuring you find the right answers and create sustainable business opportunities for our clients.
- Achieve set activity & billing targets while also delivering on agreed objectives, generating sales (apprenticeship starts) from sales calls and managing client relationships to the highest standard.
- Effectively cross-sell Leep group solutions to a number of different clients, ensuring all eligibility, onboarding and compliance processes and procedures are followed.
- Maintaining all relevant management information on our CRM – quality data makes us successful
The Ideal Candidate
- 2+ years of successful sales/account management experience, as well as professional experience of working within the apprenticeship market.
- Experience of working with new and existing B2B clients, with a strong desire to deliver exceptional customer service and proactively prospect via the telephone.
- Highly motivated, with the discipline to deliver the inputs that lead to exceptional outcomes.
- Able to work in our Leeds office 4 days a week, with 1 day from home.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive salary of up to £35,000.
- 31 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) + an additional birthday day off.
- The opportunity to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave.
- Free access to our Medicash healthcare plan.
- Employee of the month and yearly staff recognition awards.
- Summer and Christmas parties.
- Recognition of Grade 1 OTLAs.
- Continuing professional development opportunities.
- More importantly, working for an organisation that cares!
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
About Leep Talent
As a national multi award-winning company operating for over 20 years, Leep Talent (formally Just IT) support learners through our unique offering of Apprenticeships, Recruitment and Training services. Having been acquired by Leep Group (formally The B2W Group) in 2022, the leading national adult learning and pre-employment training provider, we are now a group with social impact at its heart, enabling us to reach more learners and improve communities by putting people at the heart of everything we do. Our unique offering allows us to support long term career development and relationships with learners and clients alike to create sustainable improvements in answering the digital skills gap. As a group we are now supporting the training and development of over 12,000 people per year. We believe in investing in our staff, offering opportunities for professional growth, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and aims to deliver exceptional educational experiences for our learners.
All employees at Leep Group have a commitment to: Implement Leep’s Equality and Diversity policies and to work actively to overcome discrimination on grounds of all protected characteristics; Take responsibility for one’s own professional development and participate in relevant internal and external activities; Implement the Leep’s health and safety policies and practices; Contribute to Leep’s commitment to continuous improvement as identified in Leep’s quality assurance systems; Be committed to Leep’s safeguarding procedures and high priority to be given to the safeguarding of learners. Leep Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to actively uphold our safeguarding, equality, and diversity policies. Safeguarding training is provided for every employee, and robust safer recruitment practices are followed at all stages of employment. All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom - proof of eligibility will be required as part of the recruitment process. Leep Group is unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Learner-facing roles that involve working directly with learners will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, including relevant barred list checks. All other roles will require a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as part of our safer recruitment process. The successful candidate must also complete all pre-employment vetting and will complete safeguarding training during their induction.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Experience:
- apprenticeship industry: 1 year (required)
- B2B sales: 1 year (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds LS2 7EQ
