Business Development Advisor
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE19 1ES |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6090 |
Summary
Organisation: ESPO/ETL
Work Location: ESPO, Barnsdale Way, Grove Park, Enderby, Leicester, LE19 1ES
Worker Category: Office based role
Salary: Grade 8- £28,605 - £31,029
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 22nd September 2025.
Interview Date(s): Between 29th September and 3rd October 2025.
- Are you seeking a sales role within a dynamic and progressive organisation?
- Do you want a role with plenty of variety and an opportunity to make an impact on a regional sales territory?
- Are you someone who enjoys research, communication, and helping to drive new business opportunities?
About the Role
This is an exciting new dual role to help support the ESPO/ETL sales teams to grow business across a variety of customer sectors.
For ESPO
- The customer base will include schools and academy trusts, as well as other public sector customers such as local authorities and charities. You will manage a customer base of your own you will help support one of our regional teams to grow business targeting suitable new accounts.In addition to maintaining regular contact with existing customers the successful candidate will also help execute telemarketing sales campaigns, enhancing customer awareness of ESPO as well as supporting the wider sales team.
For ESPO Trading Ltd (ETL)
- We are looking for a proactive and organised individual to target new prospects in the private sector. The role will involve researching and building prospect lists, identifying key decision-makers, and carrying out initial outreach via calls and emails. You will help prepare tailored sales materials, manage CRM data, and follow up on leads from campaigns and events. In addition, you’ll provide support with exhibitions and networking opportunities, ensuring prospects are effectively engaged and handed over to the sales team.
About You:
Ideally you will have:
- Proven telesales or experience of selling as part of a customer service role
- Knowledge of the education sector
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated attitude
- Experience of using Microsoft office as well as using a CRM system
- We’d also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
- Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
What we offer:
- Flexible working opportunities and access to employee benefits portal
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to 31 after 5 years’ service), and a scheme to buy additional leave.
- Local Government Pension Scheme with a generous employer contribution.
- Opportunities for learning development, including CIPS/CIM
- Great office location next to Fosse Park, with free on-site parking and easy access to M1 and M69.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of ESPO. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Simon Herne or Helen Swann
s.herne@espo.org/h.swann@espo.org
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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