Business Development Manager - Birmingham

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit and inclusiveness. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility. The role is a performance-based position working across ESS contracts in Birmingham, encompassing localised Employability and Skills contracts and identifying apprenticeship, job and commercial training opportunities with large and SME employers to support our customer base into employment, apprenticeships and commercial training.

Key requirements are to support employers with recruitment needs, drive job outcome performance by generating and filling vacancies, manage key regional employer partnerships, and support employers with apprenticeship and commercial training requirements. You will build relationships with employers to identify their business growth needs and actively market, promote and engage eligible employers to generate learner starts, focused on apprenticeships and job starts in the West Midlands area. This role fosters strong partnerships with employers and other stakeholders and requires flexibility, personal drive and a commitment to exceeding contractual targets, plus the ability to produce comprehensive reports and statistical analysis of operational activity.

Location: You will be based in Birmingham with hybrid working from home.

Employee Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years’ service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters’ levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women’s Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career. We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values, we reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: Resourcing@shaw-trust.org.uk

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.