Innovation & growth specialist Work, Jobs in Birmingham, Eng (with Salaries)

High Growth Consultant
WMGC —Coventry
- £71,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Business
- Leadership
Global Campaigns Specialist (UK Remote)
Turnitin, LLC —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Remote
- Salesforce
- Analysis skills
- Project management
- Annual leave
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Certification & Compliance Specialist
elix sourcing solutions —Birmingham
- £40,000 - £55,000 a year
- Work from home
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Place Specialist
WMGC —Birmingham
- £57,000 a year
- Hybrid work
Strategic Account Management Research Coordinator
WMGC —Coventry
- £44,500 a year
- Hybrid work
- AI
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
Travel Experience Specialist
Perk —Birmingham
- Weekend availability
- Hybrid work
- Bar
- Customer service
- English
- Relocation assistance
- Annual leave
Growth Marketing Program Specialist
Dassault Systèmes —Warwick
- Hybrid work
- Sales
- Marketing
- Master's degree
- Flexible schedule
Evaluation Specialist: Associate / Associate Director
Steer —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- No degree
- Contracts
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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High Growth Service Manager
WMGC —Coventry
- £85,000 a year
- Hybrid work
Front End Software Engineering Specialist
BT —Birmingham
- Engineering
- APIs
Subsea Integrity & Operations Specialist
BT —Birmingham
- Engineering
- Continuous improvement
- No degree
- Gym membership
2d
Large Machine Specialist - UK, Europe & Africa
Sulzer —Birmingham
- Full-time
- CRM software
- Sales
- Salesforce
Senior Research Engineer (SRE)- Automation Transformation
The Manufacturing Technology Centre —Coventry
- £55,000 - £65,000 a year
- Full-time
- Computer literacy
- Microsoft Office
- Analysis skills
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Senior Strategic Account Manager - Energy & Utilities
The Manufacturing Technology Centre —Coventry
- £75,000 - £85,000 a year
- Full-time
- Business development
- Bachelor's degree
- IT
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Technology Graduate
West Midlands Combined Authority —Birmingham
- £29,031 - £32,601 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
5d
Operations Manager - Customs & Brokerage
Carousel Logistics —Birmingham
- Up to £60,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Travel
- Leadership
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Head of Branch Support
Helping Hands —Alcester
- Up to £75,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Customer service
- Leadership
- Communication skills
Quick apply
13d
Project Controls Analytics Consultant
AECOM —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- SQL
- Analysis skills
Principal Ecologist - BNG Specialist
AECOM —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
National Operations Manager
Churchill Group —Birmingham
- Up to £50,000 a year
- Management
- Bachelor's degree
- Driving
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
Quick apply
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High Growth Consultant

WMGC
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£71,000 a year

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Business
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Job Reference: 00000017-1
Date Posted: 21 May 2026
Recruiter: West Midlands Growth Company
Location: Coventry
Salary: £71,000
Sector: All Jobs
Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Ready for Your Next Big Career Move?

We’re looking for an ambitious High Growth Consultant to join the West Midlands Growth Company and make a real impact from day one. If you’re driven, curious, and hungry for growth, this could be your perfect next step.

Who are we?

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) is the region’s economic development delivery organisation. From April 2026, we will lead the delivery of regionally commissioned economic development activity aligned to the West Midlands Growth Plan, working in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority and local authorities. We are building a sharper, business-focused organisation that attracts investment, supports high-growth companies and drives measurable economic impact. If you want your work to shape how growth is delivered across one of the UK’s most important regions, this is your opportunity!

The Role

As our new High Growth Consultant, you’ll join a forward thinking, collaborative team that values fresh ideas and innovation. This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects, influence decision making, and help shape the future direction of the business. This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects, influence decision making, and help shape the future direction of the business.

You’ll be involved in:

Lead a portfolio of high potential scaleups, working directly with founders, CEOs, and boards to diagnose challenges and accelerate growth.
Provide strategic commercial insight across areas such as strategy, governance, finance, leadership, innovation, and market access.
Shape and deliver high growth programmes, contributing to intervention models, cohort selection, and continuous improvement aligned with regional economic priorities.

What You’ll Be Doing

Offering specialist expertise in an area such as governance, fundraising, people/organisation design, innovation, business development, or export.
Build and maintain strong relationships across the West Midlands business ecosystem, including investors, universities, catapults, corporates, and government agencies.
Drive economic impact, ensuring interventions lead to measurable outcomes such as job creation, productivity gains, and inward investment.
Provide robust reporting and analysis to evidence performance, ensuring high standards of governance, transparency, and accountability.
Work across public, private, and academic stakeholders to remove systemic barriers to growth, influencing partners to unlock conditions for high growth businesses to thrive.
Support businesses with internationalisation and export growth, helping them develop and execute global expansion strategies through targeted ecosystem introductions.
Provide market and sector intelligence, identifying emerging trends, risks, and opportunities to inform regional policy and strategic decision making.
Contribute to building and strengthening sector clusters and the wider scaleup ecosystem, fostering collaboration and shared capability across priority industries.

What You’ll Bring

Essential:

Significant senior-level business experience leading high-growth and scale-up businesses.
Strong track record of working with founders, CEOs, and boards on complex growth and transformation challenges.
Demonstrable experience engaging with investors and growth finance markets.
Proven ability to translate economic strategy into practical, high-impact interventions.
Strong understanding of a business lifecycle.
Commercially astute: Balances public value with private-sector growth realities.

Desirable:

Relevant Degree or Postgraduate qualification or professional accreditation in business, finance, or leadership.
An industry sector background in advanced manufacturing, professional services, life sciences or low carbon, digital tech and creative, foundation
Strong understanding of the West Midlands business support ecosystem.
Strong industry networks.
Experience of delivering business support to high growth businesses through Advisory, Non-executive roles.
Non-executive, board advisory, or investment committee experience.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

26 days holiday
Company pension scheme including life assurance
Hybrid working - 2 days in the office
Cycle to work
Simple Health employee membership scheme

Equal Opportunities Statement

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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innovation & growth specialist jobs in birmingham, eng

High Growth Consultant

Global Campaigns Specialist (UK Remote)

Certification & Compliance Specialist

Place Specialist

Strategic Account Management Research Coordinator

Travel Experience Specialist

Growth Marketing Program Specialist

Evaluation Specialist: Associate / Associate Director

High Growth Service Manager

Front End Software Engineering Specialist

Subsea Integrity & Operations Specialist

Large Machine Specialist - UK, Europe & Africa

Senior Research Engineer (SRE)- Automation Transformation

Senior Strategic Account Manager - Energy & Utilities

Technology Graduate

Operations Manager - Customs & Brokerage

Head of Branch Support

Project Controls Analytics Consultant

Principal Ecologist - BNG Specialist

National Operations Manager

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