Business Development Advisor

Business Development Advisor

College location: East Surrey College (Redhill) and John Ruskin College (Selsdon)

Salary: £38,942.75 - £41,718.11 depending on experience

Hours: Full time (37 hours/week) 08:45-17:00 Monday - Friday

Are you a natural relationship-builder who thrives on spotting opportunities and making things happen? Ready to play a key role in connecting businesses with talent and shaping the future workforce?

We're looking for a driven and ambitious Business Development Advisor to join our team and take our employer engagement to the next level. As the first point of contact for employer and partnership enquiries, you will play a central role in identifying opportunities, engaging businesses, and delivering tailored training solutions that meet workforce needs. You will drive growth, develop partnerships, and support the expansion of our Adult Skills and Apprenticeship provision.

This is a key role within the College, focused on developing sustainable, mutually beneficial relationships with employers while contributing to the promotion and ongoing success of our offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for employer and community partnership enquiries
• Drive growth in sales and enrolments across Adult Skills and Apprenticeships
• Identify and develop new business opportunities and funding streams
• Build and maintain relationships with local and national employers
• Provide monitoring reports on the College's employer-related training activities

We are looking for someone who:

• Has strong relationship-building and communication skills
• Is target-driven with a proven ability to generate business growth
• Demonstrates commercial awareness and initiative
• Is highly organized and confident using CRM systems/databases
• Is passionate about supporting skills development and working with employers
• Maths & English GCSE / NVQ Level 2 as a minimum (or willing to obtain)

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.