Business Development Managers - Remote

Location: Remote - covering either South or North of England

Salary: From £32,000 plus a generous commission scheme

Due to further expansion in our commercial sector, we are looking for a driven, forward-thinking, enthusiastic and experienced sales professional to join our remote based team as a Business Development Manager (BDM) to execute mind-blowing performance to meet and exceed targets across the North or South of England, and bring our ambitious growth plans to life.

In this role you will be a key member of the growing Business Development team and be responsible for using a solution focused approach to identify new apprenticeship opportunities and generate starts across your identified region or sales vertical in line with targets and expectations, with a keen focus on care.

As an influential and experienced sales professional, you will use your excellent communication skills, competitive edge and confidence to obtain new potential business opportunities by understanding Company's values, beliefs and strategies in order to tailor your approach to secure new business, and maintain lasting relationships with the account management of established partners to be a trusted advisor and provide high quality solutions for all, and position Paragon Skills as their provider of choice.

What will you be doing?

Exceed KPIs and new apprenticeship targets whilst ensuring all eligibility is met via a combination of new business and account management strategies

Identify new client opportunities within Paragon Skills' core market sectors, in particular Health and Social Care (HSC) and Education

Develop an engagement plan to create new leads and opportunities within SME organisations who would benefit from apprentices

Be able to demonstrate a return on investment for apprentices within any client business to highlight benefits

Provide information, advice and guidance relating to all aspects of the Apprenticeship levy, where required, ensuring clients are fully supported and informed throughout every step of the journey, from design to delivery enabling clients to make informed decisions

Work consultatively with prospective clients, creating world-class apprenticeship delivery models to suit their needs sharing ideas and giving valuable and practical advice at SME owner / manager level

Build strong and sustainable relationships with client contacts at all levels, delivering an outstanding customer experience, every time

Work closely with internal colleagues to ensure new opportunities and contracts are well communicated into the business, ensuring all deliverables and commercial arrangements are agreed as part of our on-boarding process

To complete all administrative tasks to ensure the new learner is able to be signed up when the tutor attends