Business Engagement Manager
| Posting date: | 28 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £36,577 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2024 |
| Location: | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PD |
| Company: | Buckinghamshire College Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ1510_1716902648 |
Summary
We have an exciting new Business Engagement Manager role to join our expanding team!
If you are looking for a role to really make a difference then this is your opportunity to join a team that is committed to working with businesses to provide training solutions and establish a talent pipeline to meet their skills and people needs.
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, forward thinking individual as our Business Engagement Manager at Buckinghamshire College Group. The role is based at our Aylesbury campus. We are offering a competitive salary for this role.
The overall requirement of the Business Engagement Manager is to build relationships with businesses to provide solutions to their short, medium and long term skills needs. You will establish a robust pipeline to meet ambitious targets for apprenticeships, full and part-time training courses, student placements, and business involvement in curriculum design and delivery.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- build and maintain strong relationships with businesses to meet their existing and future skills and people needs
- identify and pursue new sales opportunities for Buckinghamshire College Group and its education services
- develop and implement effective sales strategies to meet targets for apprenticeships, workplace qualifications and training courses
- work collaboratively with the curriculum areas and apprenticeship team to generate apprenticeships, industry placements, work experience and training course opportunities.
We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the College. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible.
While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including:
- Pension scheme - LGPS (21% employer contribution)
- 30 days holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays & Additional annual leave purchase scheme
- A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development
- A bespoke package of intensive induction and probation support
- Flexible working policy and a commitment to employee wellbeing
- Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Hair & Beauty (HAB) Salon
- 24hrs/7days a week access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes
Buckinghamshire College Group is a Further Education college with three campuses located in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wycombe. We are proud to be a skills-based college supporting over 5000 learners each year to achieve their study and career goals and play a pivotal role in the Buckinghamshire community working with a wide range of employers for example, Pinewood Studios, NHS Trusts and Flannery Plant Hire to name but a few.
You will have an unwavering passion for learning and for supporting learners and staff to achieve more than they ever thought possible - we call this the Bucks College Factor!
If you have the Bucks College Factor, this sounds like a role for you and Buckinghamshire College Group sounds like a place you'd like to be part of, then we'd love to hear from you
Commitment to Safeguarding
BCG is committed to equal opportunities for all, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and staff alike; all posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.
Only completed applications will be considered for this role.
For more information on the role please contact HR directly.
Closing date for applications is the 11th June 2024, with interviews taking place on 20th June
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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