High Growth Support Executive in Coventry

We’re looking for an ambitious High Growth Support Executive to join the West Midlands Growth Company and make a real impact from day one. If you’re driven, curious, and hungry for growth, this could be your perfect next step.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) is the region’s economic development delivery organisation. We are building a sharper, business-focused organisation that attracts investment, supports high-growth companies and drives measurable economic impact. If you want your work to shape how growth is delivered across one of the UK’s most important regions, this is your opportunity.

As our new High Growth Support Executive, you’ll join a forward thinking, collaborative team that values fresh ideas and innovation. This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects, influence decision making, and help shape the future direction of the business.

You’ll be involved in:

• Support high potential businesses by assisting High Growth Account Managers in delivering insight, challenge, and tailored growth plans to scale ambitious companies across the West Midlands.
• Drive regional economic impact by gathering business intelligence, shaping growth programmes, and strengthening collaboration across the ecosystem including local authorities, universities, and industry partners.
• Represent the WM Growth Hub to ensure a seamless business support journey, helping translate public investment into productivity, innovation, and high-value job creation for the region.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop strong relationships with SMEs and identify solutions to their growth challenges by understanding the regional business support landscape.
• Assess SME growth potential by reviewing business ideas, supporting business plans and advising on finance options.
• Proactively identify high growth potential SMEs and refer them to a High Growth Account Manager.
• Liaise with Local Authorities to deliver seamless Information.
• Support the High Growth Account Managers in delivering high-quality, impactful services to ambitious businesses.
• Ensure accurate CRM data management, tracking all client interactions, progress and outputs in a timely and compliant manner.
• Work collaboratively with delivery partners and ecosystem stakeholders to ensure programmes are relevant, impactful, and informed by business feedback.
• Provide a consistent high quality service on behalf of the Growth Hub, ensuring SMEs receive proactive, professional and effective support always.

What You’ll Bring:

Essential:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence and build credibility with senior executives.
• Proven relationship-building and networking ability, with experience working collaboratively with partners, suppliers, businesses and your colleagues.
• Commercial awareness and good working knowledge of business management, with sound judgement in complex situations.
• High level of IT literacy, confident using MS Office to produce high-quality documents, reports and presentations.

Desirable:

• Experience using a CRM system, ideally Zoho or a similar platform.
• Understanding of business investment processes and public sector decision making, especially within advanced engineering, professional services, low carbon or life science environments.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• 26 days holiday
• Company pension scheme including life assurance
• Hybrid working - 2 days in the office
• Cycle to work
• Simple Health employee membership scheme

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.