Schools Business Development Manager

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They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.

Business Development Manager - North East England

Location: Regional - remote/home base with regular travel across the North East & East Midlands

Salary: Up to £50K & performance related bonus, OTE is £68,750, £75K for exceeding targets plus uncapped enhanced scheme

Hours: Full- time, 40 hours per week

Key Responsibilities:

As BDM for this new region, you’ll take responsibility for developing new opportunities and partnerships that enable Aurora to reach more children, young people and adults in need of specialist support.

Your role is pivotal to ensure that we are considered the provider of choice to support children, young people and adults with special needs.

Key to this role will be your ability to form and build positive relationships and a deep sense of trust with funders and influencers and wide range of stakeholders within local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Equally; you’ll collaborate with Service Leads, Marketing, Placement Managers and other key staff to ensure you can truly understand and represent our current and new services.

Naturally; you’ll work to a set of clear KPIs and targets and be expected to provide regular reports on progress.

The role will give you a great opportunity to identify opportunities for growth, enter new markets and build unique customer relationships.

Experience:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• The ability to forge and develop strong commercial relationships.
• Experience of working in the care and/or education sector.
• Experience of statutory funding in children’s and/or adult services.
• Understanding of special educational needs and disability in children and young people/adults.
• Confident negotiation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to represent the organisation at all levels, including national, regional and local government level.
• Able to travel extensively within the North East and East Midlands (including some overnight stay).

Benefits:

• Life assurance
• Competitive Pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.