Business Development Manager

Description:

We’re currently seeking a Business Development Manager for our South East (SE) region, who is looking for the opportunity to build skills and knowledge, and further their career in Business Development.

Key Responsibilities:

Working closely with our Senior Business Development Manager, the role is key to ensuring that Aurora are considered the provider of choice to support children, young people and adults with special needs in our South East region.

You will be trained in all aspects of the role, allowing you to take responsibility for developing new opportunities and maximising existing partnerships; to ensure that our services are considered by local authorities to be an integral part of their sufficiency strategies.

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.

Working with the BDM, you will collaborate with Principals, Marketing, Placement Managers and other key staff to ensure that you can promote our current services and future provision to a wide range of stakeholders.

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 identifying new funding streams, entry into new markets and to build unique customer relationships.

Skills and Qualifications

Experience:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Business Development Management experience within the education and/or care sector
• The ability to forge and develop strong business relationships.
• Understanding of statutory funding in children’s and/or adult services.
• Understanding of special educational needs and disability in children and young people/adults.
• Excellent 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 South East (including some overnight stay)