Commercial Development Manager - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The starting salary for this position is £46,634 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.

This role is an exciting and unique opportunity within Children's Services to further develop our awardwinning training offer and sell it to an even wider range of external organisations._

We are looking for someone who:

Can identify opportunities for growth and generate new entrepreneurial ideas
Builds solid financial and operational models to deliver on these ideas
Forms strategic partnerships
Cares deeply about the people we're working for children and families

Within the Children, Families and Lifelong Learning directorate there are a number of teams delivering high quality training to staff and partners in order to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

We are really proud of our full trainingoffer, which is organised by the Surrey Children's Services Academy (SCSA).

Several courses are delivered by our User Voice and Participation team, who run a range of award-winning training that puts adults in the shoes of young people.

We now want to build on this success, developing a business plan which enables us to work with an increasing number of external organisations.

We are ambitious in our desire to develop and grow this offer further, and
this is where you come in

As Commercial Development Manager, you will oversee the development of sustainable, externally facing training packages which seek to maximise income generation in order to improve outcomes for children and families.

You will work closely with the User Voiceand Participation team and the Academy team to review and enhance our offer and to develop a sustainable business model for future growth.

You will be responsible for managing this programme of work, including line managing a project officer who will also be focused full-time on this programme.

Your experience, commercial mindset and ability to research and understand the market will informthe training programme and enable you to recommend suitable charging structures and models of delivery.

You will have the proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with potential and current stakeholders and will act as the main point of contact for all enquiries, providing offers that meet learning needs, supplying competitive quotes and conductingevaluations.

Throughout your time in this role, you will be expected to consider how our offer would translate into the private sector, develop a marketing strategy and make a final review and recommendation of whether there is scope to launch this offer externally andthe implications of this.

Although this is a 12-month fixed term contract, there is a possibility that this may be extended depending on the viability of the business model and the specific role required to oversee its successful rollout.

Commercial / social enterprise background with a good understanding of income generation
Strong communicator with excellent negotiation and influencing skills
Proven ability to interpret and analyse information and formulate and present reports and recommendations
Ability to build strong working relationships and credibility with multiple stakeholders
Excellent organisational, project management and planning skills and experience of delivering effective commercial programmes

If you have the skills, passion and ambition that matches this role, we would like to hear from you

The job advert closes at 23:59 on Sunday 12th March 2023.

Interviews will be held on 17th March 2023.

An Enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) may be requested prior to starting this role.

At Surrey we fully support
agile working, where staff work in the place that is best suited for the tasks that day.

In this team, it usually means being in the office on average one day a week for team collaboration but there is no hardand fast rule.

The office base is currently Quadrant Court in Woking, but we occasionally meet in other offices in Surrey.

This role might also involve travel to meet with potential clients and partners elsewhere in the UK, although we anticipate most communicationwill happen virtually.

Benefits
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance.

You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, aswell as the option to join our car lease scheme.

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit the advert on the employer site.

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