Are you an experienced business advisor, consultant or business leader who knows what it takes to grow a successful company?
Do you enjoy working with ambitious business owners, getting under the skin of their challenges and helping them turn opportunities into action?
We’re looking for an experienced High Growth Business Advisor to join the Hertfordshire Growth Hub team and work directly with some of the county’s most ambitious and high-potential businesses.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference. You’ll build trusted relationships with business owners and senior leadership teams, helping them overcome barriers, identify new opportunities and put the right plans in place to achieve sustainable growth.
No two businesses - or days - will be exactly the same.
You’ll proactively identify and engage businesses with strong growth potential and become a trusted advisor to the owners and leaders you support.
Your role will include:
- Providing high-impact 1:1 support to established and scale-up SMEs
- Using our Growth Maturity Index to identify business needs, challenges and opportunities
- Helping clients tackle the practical barriers standing in the way of growth
- Delivering engaging workshops, webinars and growth programmes
- Connecting businesses with specialist support, funding, innovation programmes and the wider Hertfordshire business ecosystem
- Developing long-term relationships with high-potential businesses using a Key Account Management approach
- Representing Hertfordshire Growth Hub at relevant events and within the wider business community
- Managing your own client pipeline and contributing to the Growth Hub’s wider performance and impact
You’ll work across a wide range of businesses, with a particular focus on Hertfordshire’s priority sectors including advanced manufacturing, clean energy, life sciences, defence, digital and technology, creative industries, and professional and business services.
We’re looking for someone who can sit down with an ambitious business owner or senior leadership team, quickly understand what is happening in their business and add genuine value to the conversation.
You’ll bring significant experience in business advice, consultancy or working with senior management teams within established or scale-up SMEs, together with a strong understanding of the challenges businesses face as they grow.
You’ll be confident, credible and commercially minded, with the ability to listen, analyse, constructively challenge and inspire people to take action.
Just as importantly, you’ll enjoy building relationships. You’ll be comfortable reaching out to prospective clients, representing the Growth Hub at events and building trusted relationships with businesses and partners across Hertfordshire.
Experience of delivering workshops, webinars or growth programmes is important, as you’ll be working with businesses both individually and in groups.
Experience of running or growing your own business, managing a business unit with P&L responsibility or working at C-suite level would be particularly valuable.
We’d also welcome applicants with experience within Hertfordshire’s priority sectors, knowledge of the innovation and scale-up ecosystem, or an existing network within the business support community.
This is a role where you can see the difference your work makes.
You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with ambitious businesses at pivotal points in their development, helping leaders make better decisions, access the right support and unlock their potential.
You’ll join a small, experienced and supportive Hertfordshire Growth Hub team, while working at the heart of a much wider network of organisations committed to helping Hertfordshire businesses succeed.
The role is home-based , giving you flexibility in how you work, alongside regular opportunities to meet clients, partners and colleagues across Hertfordshire.
We’re also happy to consider both full-time and part-time applications .
Hertfordshire Growth Hub provides businesses across the county with the advice, expertise, connections and support they need to start, grow and thrive.
Working with businesses and partners across Hertfordshire, the Growth Hub helps companies navigate the business support landscape and access the right expertise at the right time.
As our High Growth Business Advisor, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Hertfordshire’s most ambitious businesses receive the targeted, high-quality support they need to realise their potential.
Ready to make an impact?
If you have the experience, commercial insight and credibility to work with ambitious business leaders - and you’d like to use those skills to help Hertfordshire businesses grow -we’d love to hear from you. There is no closing date and we will interview as we process applications.
Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to travel across Hertfordshire for in-person meetings and delivery. Some flexibility to support occasional early morning or evening sessions will also be required.
Location:
Home-based, with travel across Hertfordshire
Contract:
Full-time or part-time considered
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