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Date Added: Sat 11/01/2025

Business Development Manager

London, SE1, UK
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Company: NATIONAL SKILLS AGENCY

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £40000 - £45000/annum

ROLE PURPOSE

Responsible for establishing, securing, and nurturing long-term business relationships with new and existing clients to generate apprenticeship starts and achieve monthly targets. This includes promoting and selling all their services across contracts, maximising levy utilisation, and expanding the employer base. The role involves managing a sales pipeline, generating leads, and attending events to drive business growth and support strategic objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To offer a consultative approach to employers to maximise their levy pot

To manage and develop strong relationships with employers to identify and sell all training solutions.

To manage own pipeline and update the CRM (Salesforce).

To plan, initiate and deliver strategic business development that will provide expected outcomes against strategic goals.

To communicate effectively with levy and non-levy paying employers to create new leads.

To increase sales of training solutions through expanding their employer base across the UK and by gaining new business.

Attend networking events to enhance business development opportunities.

Working events to enhance business development opportunities.

To ensure security of company assets

To comply with all company policies and procedures

To comply with the companies safeguarding policy & procedure

To comply with Equal Opportunities Legislation and be proactive in challenging prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping.

To implement in full our clients quality policies and procedures.

To consult the Company Health and Safety Policy with regards to their specific responsibilities as described in the general arrangements section

To give consideration to their actions at work as to how they may affect the safety of Learners, clients and visitors to Company premises

Support organisations core values

Co-operate with all staff to achieve a healthy and safe workplace and reporting any risks identified, at the company's or others premises, to the designated Health and Safety Officer.

Other duties that may be identified from time to time by the Company.

Attend relevant training / personal development programmes

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Proven experience and a proven track record of selling apprenticeship programmes to Levy paying organisations

Wealth of experience in the Apprenticeship Sector

Experience of working in a target driven commercial environment

Sales Experience

Networking skills

Presentation and report writing

Experience within client relationships management / customer service / sales

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

CORE:

Confident with LinkedIn and cold calling engagement

Proactive and consultative sales approach

Solution orientated salesperson

Interpersonal skills

Influencing and negotiating skills

Planning and organisational skills

Well organised and structure approach to work

Ability to work to deadlines and targets

IT Literate

Paul Feldman is the National Skills Agency Data Protection Officer. Your data will be stored until notice is given by you for it to be removed. Our Data Protection Policy will be forwarded to you on request. As we get a high number of applications, we may be unable to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates. We will retain your details to keep you informed of other opportunities. National Skills Agency Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy and is an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all backgrounds
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