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Live vacancyBusiness Development ManagerLead our commercial growth — new customers, new programmes and new routes to market.Full timeHybridReports to the Managing Director£40,000 a yearRead the full role  ∨

This role leads BPIF Training’s commercial growth — creating and developing revenue opportunities across existing customers, new customers, new programmes and new routes to market. It works at employer and organisation level, on commercial planning and growth, rather than on recruiting individual learners.

This is not a traditional sales role. We’re moving from taking orders to a proactive, insight-led approach — and this is the role that drives it.

What you’ll do

  • Own the CRM and the qualified opportunity pipeline, so every opportunity has a value, a probability, a next action and an owner
  • Manage opportunities from first engagement through to a commercial commitment, then hand over to the operational team
  • Build a structured account management approach across key customers, and re-engage dormant ones
  • Identify and approach employers who aren’t yet working with us, using research rather than cold volume
  • Work with the Managing Director and Board Adviser to test demand for new programmes before we invest in them
  • Run targeted B2B campaigns designed to generate qualified employer opportunities, not just awareness

What you’ll bring

  • A track record in business development, commercial growth or strategic account management
  • Experience building and managing a qualified pipeline from early engagement through to conversion
  • Confident use of a CRM to keep records accurate and report commercial performance
  • Strong analytical skills — able to read pipeline, customer and revenue data and act on it
  • Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills, credible with senior people
  • A consultative, needs-led approach, and the integrity to go with it

 

What we offer

  • £40,000 a year
  • 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays — and your birthday off
  • Buy up to 10 extra days of leave
  • Workplace pension with salary sacrifice, and half the employer NI saving returned to you
  • Life assurance at 4× salary
  • Employee Assistance Programme through The Printing Charity
  • Funded training, study support and one professional membership
  • Flexible working, Cycle to Work, tech scheme and employee discounts

Apply for this role  →View the full role  →Send your CV and covering letter to [email protected]

Where we’re growingWe’re looking for people to support delivery in ScotlandWe work with employers right across the UK, and Scotland is an area we want to strengthen. If you know the print, packaging or manufacturing industry there and could support apprentices on the ground — full time, fractional or freelance — we’d like to hear from you, whether or not there’s a role advertised today.Get in touch about Scotland  →Or email Karly direct at [email protected]

No vacancy that fits? Talk to us anyway

We’re always interested in hearing from people who could tutor for us, and we keep details on file so we can come back to you when something opens up. That goes right across our delivery — not just the areas we happen to be recruiting for today.Our core deliveryPrint, packaging and manufacturingTime on press, in finishing, in prepress or in production management — whatever your corner of the industry, it’s what our apprentices need to learn from.We’re building a bank of tutors across all of it, so tell us what you know and where you are.Where we’re growingSales, digital, marketing and AIWe’re extending our capacity beyond core print delivery into the business and digital programmes our employers are asking for.If that’s your field and tutoring appeals, we’d rather hear from you now than when a role goes live.

If you can support the industryNo teaching qualification? That’s not a barrier.What matters most is what you know and whether you can bring people on. If you’re the right fit, we can often get you started without a teaching qualification and fund it once you’re with us.Full time, fractional and freelance all considered. If you’re not sure whether your experience counts, ask us — it usually does.Talk to us  →What tutoring actually involves

Safeguarding and equal opportunities

BPIF Training is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners, and expects all staff to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check, which we arrange and pay for.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or age. Recruitment decisions are based on skills, experience and business needs.

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Get in touch with us – we look forward to working with you.

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