Business Development Manager

Are you an experienced Business Development Manager who is immediately available for work?

The Role:

A University are seeking a Business Development Manager to join them asap on a temporary contract until the end of August, but with the potential to go permanent thereafter. You will join a newly created team who work with Academics across the university to generate income for the university. This could be through obtaining sponsorships from businesses or selling short-courses to businesses, for example. Currently there is also demand for clients booking the university as a venue to hold their events, so taking and coordinating those bookings is part of your remit.

Your role as Business Development Manager is all about fostering great working relationships with internal stakeholders and new clients. You will attend networking events and, in the longer term, the role will require you to cold call and implement marketing strategies, so a confident and tenacious individual is required.

The role is a really varied one and is an exciting opportunity to work within the higher education sector.

Hours:

This is a full-time role requiring you to be based on-campus 3 days a week mostly, but with sometimes the requirement for a 4^th day, and to work some evenings and the very occasional Saturday. Time off in lieu will be provide when this is required.

Location:

The role is based in East London across two sites.

Salary:

Salary: £38,022pa - £40,080pa - this role will be a temporary contract via TPP paid on an hourly rate of £20.89ph - £22.02ph, subject to experience.

*Please note that this is not a commission based role.

Experience required:

• Experience of working in a sales / BD role, generating new business
• Demonstrable experience of working to targets/KPIs and achieving goals
• Confident and professional individual who enjoys conversations and networking
• Professionalism to represent the university at events and in relationship development
• Driven and determined.
• An interest in the higher education sector

Application process:

Client is open to receiving CVs asap and will interview as soon as possible so please apply immediately with just your CV reflecting the above essential experience.

Interviews:

Client has requested in-person interviews which are likely to be at relatively short notice due to the urgent need to hire.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive we can't respond to everyone - if you do not hear back from us within 3 working days, unfortunately you haven't been short-listed for this role.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.