Business Development Manager

Role Overview

As a Business Development Manager, you’ll be responsible for generating new business opportunities and building relationships with organisations across the public sector. You’ll identify and engage decision-makers, manage opportunities from initial contact through to agreement and work closely with internal teams to deliver a positive customer experience.

What You Will Do

You’ll combine strong relationship-building skills with commercial awareness to create growth opportunities for AAT while helping employers access high-quality learning and development solutions. You’ll also provide market and customer insight, helping colleagues understand emerging trends, customer challenges and opportunities to improve products, services and approaches.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We’re looking for someone with a successful track record in business development who is confident building relationships, influencing senior stakeholders and identifying opportunities for growth.

Requirements

• Successful track record in business development
• Confident building relationships, influencing senior stakeholders and identifying opportunities for growth
• Experience in business development, sales or account acquisition within the education, training or skills sector
• Proven success in winning new business and developing opportunities with large or complex organisations
• Experience engaging and influencing senior decision-makers
• Strong relationship management, negotiation and presentation skills
• Experience managing opportunities through a CRM system and maintaining an accurate pipeline
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to identify opportunities and manage risk
• A proactive, self-motivated approach with the ability to manage priorities and work independently
• Experience working collaboratively across teams to deliver successful outcomes

Benefits

• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our London office) and opportunities for further flexible working
• 25 days’ annual leave, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays
• Great pension scheme, life assurance and critical illness cover
• Health cash plan
• Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave contributions of up to 6 months’ full pay depending on the length of service
• Regular wellbeing initiatives
• Cycle2Work scheme

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