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

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The starting salary for this position is £46,634 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.
The role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term or secondment opportunity.

Are you commercially minded and ready to lead the development of an exciting, innovative traded service offer?
Are you passionate about improving outcomes 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 their families.

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

Several courses are delivered by our User Voice and Participation team, who run an extensive 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 play a keyrole in researching the market, benchmarking costs and designing our training offer.

You will work closely with the User Voice and Participation and Academy teams to shape our offer and to develop an overall business plan.

You will be responsible for managingthis 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 inform the 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 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 and the implicationsof 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 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 look forward to hearing from you

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Additional Information
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 15th January 2023.

Interviews will be held on 24th and 26th January 2023.

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

Occasional travel may also be required.

Contact Details

An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.

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 MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

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