Business Development Executive
Key Responsibilities:
- Generating new business enquiries by contacting decision makers within nurseries and early years settings to discuss their training needs for both new and existing staff.
- Identifying apprenticeship recruitment opportunities within nurseries and early years settings.
- Developing employer relationships so that existing customers become regular, reoccurring clients while cross selling other programmes from our portfolio.
- Building a database of local authority contacts to help promote our services regionally, as well as managing procurement windows to ensure funding can be secured across all programmes.
- Attending sector specific networking events in your region.
- Performing quarterly market analysis of your sales territory to identify new opportunities, competitors, trends or any big challenges.
- Reporting accurate sales pipeline information and forecasting monthly start numbers.
- Updating the internal CRM system to record activity and communications.
Business Support
- Collaborate with other departments to promote Best Practice Network more effectively, and to ensure smooth processing of sales administration.
- Identify possible weaknesses in current methodology to driving continuous improvement within the team and across the wider business.
Person Specification
- A natural communicator with an excellent phone manager, capable of building rapport with stakeholders of all levels.
- A strong written communicator, capable of producing detailed and engaging sales proposals.
- Experience of working to and exceeding sales KPI’s.
- An ambitious and resilient individual, motivated by forging a lucrative sales career.
- Knowledge of apprenticeship programmes would be an advantage but is not essential.
- Comfortable with flexible working patterns including 2 days per week at our Bristol HQ.
Pay: £27,000.00-£29,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Life insurance
- Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol BS1
