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Business Advisor - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Manchester

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £27,300 per annum

Closing Date
09/01/2023

Ref No
3333

The Growth company (GC) has an exciting new opportunity for a Business Advisor to generate and account manage a caseload of Greater Manchester (and North West) employers in order to promote and increase the take-up of GC services.

Key responsibilities:

Achieve agreed upon sales targets
Present, promote and sell appropriate products/services in line with the wider Growth Company strategy
Diagnose business needs to effectively positions GC services
Continually create and refresh an extensive caseload of businesses that enable individual, company, and contracts targets to be met in line with GC quality requirements
Develop and maintain excellent account management relationships with customers that result in the take up of services, repeat business, upselling and crossselling
Conduct professional face to face and telephone meetings at all levels with customers, delivering sales presentations and pitches
Attend networking events and learner recruitment events (which at times will involve working outside of standard business hours)
Project managing commercial training projects whilst contributing to the production of competitive tenders and to the achievement of crosssector and crosscompany targets

About you:

Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience of working in a target driven environment
Excellent selling and presentation skills
Proven business diagnostic skills & results Driven
Proven project management and organisation skills
IT skills, e.g. use of Microsoft Office suite (word, excel, power point and outlook)
Must have drivers license and access to a vehicle (Desirable)

Skills Required:

A minimum of two years sales and employer engagement experience
Producing business proposals following diagnosis of business need
Delivery or selling of skills training provision and/or recruitment services
Providing guidance, advice & counseling, specialist /pastoral support to employers or young people
Sound knowledge of the workbased learning route including Apprenticeship frameworks, NVQ's and their processes (Desirable)
Sounds knowledge of business support services across Greater Manchester
Sound knowledge of funding requirements such as ESFA, ESF and others (Desirable)

The Growth Company are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

The Growth Company aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working.

Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles.

Reasonable adjustments for interviews, whether virtual or face to face, will be considered.