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Business Development Consultant
- Location: Remote, with regular travel across the South East
- Type: Full-time
- Pay: Up to £50k base + commission
Main Duties
- Engaging with clients on the phone and in person
- Take responsibility for developing new opportunities and maximising existing partnerships; to ensure that the client’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.
- Working with the Senior BDM, you will collaborate with Principals, Marketing, Placement Managers and other key staff to ensure that you can promote our current services and future provision to a wide range of stakeholders.
- The role will give you a great opportunity to identifying new funding streams, entry into new markets and to build unique customer relationships.
Requirements
- 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).
- Car and driving license
If this role is of interest, please send your CV through to James Grace at Dovetail & Slate or call the Bristol office on .
Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency.
