Business Advisor / Apprenticeship Sales (4595)
Business Advisor / Apprenticeship Sales
The Growth Company’s (GC) Education and Skills team have an exciting new opportunity for a Business Advisor / Apprenticeship Sales to generate and account manage a caseload of Greater Manchester (and the North West) employers in order to promote and achieve the take-up of GC Education and Skills and GC services.
As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Diagnose business needs to effectively position our services.
- Create and refresh a caseload of businesses to meet targets.
- Conduct proactive sales activities including cold calling, telesales, and digital campaigns.
- Develop and maintain excellent account management relationships.
- Conduct professional meetings and deliver sales presentations.
- Attend networking and recruitment events.
- Project manage commercial training projects.
- Contribute to competitive tenders and cross-company targets.
About You:
- Proven business diagnostic skills.
- Excellent selling, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Strong project management and organisational abilities.
- End-to-end recruitment expertise.
- Understanding of business unit services, qualifications, and frameworks.
- Effective communication skills at all business levels.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
Skills Required:
- Minimum of two years in sales and employer engagement.
- Experience in diagnosing business needs and developing solutions.
- Ability to produce business proposals and deliver convincing sales presentations.
- Experience in delivering or selling skills training and recruitment services.
- Knowledge of work-based learning routes, including Apprenticeship Standards
- and NVQs.
- Familiarity with business support services and funding requirements.
- Ability to motivate and influence young people and employers.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC 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. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.