Business Development Manager- South

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Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Business Development Manager
- South

Vacancy Number

Vacancy Number VN2895

Location City

Location City Hybrid from your local office

Employment Type

Employment Type

Permanent

As our Business Development & Partnerships Manager, you will:

• Identify, develop and secure new business opportunities with Multi Academy Trusts, school groups, education organisations and other strategic partners.
• Build credible relationships with senior stakeholders, including CEOs, CFOs, HR Directors, Operations Leaders and Procurement Leads.
• Develop a strong, high-quality pipeline of strategic opportunities.
• Lead discovery meetings, presentations, pitches, proposals and commercial negotiations.
• Support tender, procurement, framework and managed-service opportunities.
• Create compelling solutions that respond to each partner’s operational and staffing challenges.
• Work closely with colleagues across operations, sales, partnerships, bids and marketing to bring opportunities to life.
• Partner with Teaching Personnel teams to ensure new agreements are successfully activated and converted into sustainable school-level growth.
• Collaborate with Supply Bank and wider Group teams to develop strategic staffing and managed-service solutions.
• Use market insight, commercial judgement and value-led selling to build strong, profitable partnerships.
• Maintain momentum across longer and more complex sales cycles.
• Share insight on market developments, competitor activity and emerging opportunities across the education sector.
• Continue supporting partnerships after the initial win, ensuring they deliver measurable and lasting value.

You will be an experienced and credible sales, business development or partnerships professional who is comfortable opening doors, influencing senior decision-makers and converting opportunities into results.

You may already have experience in education recruitment, education services, MSP, procurement frameworks, public-sector staffing or Trust partnerships
.

However, we are also open to people from other sectors who can demonstrate exceptional consultative sales and business development experience, particularly within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

You will ideally bring:

• A strong track record in business development, strategic sales, partnerships or account growth.
• Experience winning significant new business or developing complex commercial relationships.
• Confidence engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• The ability to understand client challenges and translate them into compelling solutions.
• Strong presentation, proposal, negotiation and closing skills.
• Experience managing longer, consultative or procurement-led sales cycles.
• A structured and proactive approach to pipeline development.
• Commercial awareness, including an understanding of value, pricing and profitability.
• The ability to build strong relationships with operational teams and mobilise internal support.
• Resilience, curiosity and the confidence to challenge established thinking.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work across different teams, brands and specialisms.
• A genuine interest in education and the impact that effective recruitment and staffing partnerships can have.

Knowledge of the education recruitment market, Multi Academy Trust structures or school procurement would be valuable, but it is not essential if you can bring highly transferable experience and a strong appetite to learn.

Success will mean creating and converting a healthy pipeline of strategic opportunities, winning valuable new partnerships and ensuring those partnerships are successfully embedded across our operational teams.

You will…