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 organised 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.