Business Development Manager (Health and Social Care Sector)

Closing Date: 19 June 2024 - 12:00 noon

Interview date: To be confirmed. 

Flexible and remote working is an option but must be able to attend Milton Keynes at least 2 to 3 days per week and ad hoc as required.     

Change your career, change lives.

The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

The Business Development Unit (BDU) is committed to the delivery of innovative and profitable learning solutions, for students, businesses, and partners in the UK and globally. The BDU is a key contributor to the Open University’s (OU) strategy for extending reach to more diverse groups of learners through a range of channels, learning opportunities and partnerships that enable innovation and income diversification. The Unit plays a key role in delivering growth in existing markets and establishing the University in new markets, including apprenticeships.

The role

The Open University is recruiting a Business Development Manager, (Health and Social Care sector).

• To build senior relationships across the Health and Social Care sector-based portfolio to enable the promotion and positioning of OU as a strategic workforce development partner.
• To identify and develop strategic pipeline opportunities and manage these through to successful sales to achieve revenue targets.
• To identify and develop OU higher education and skills solutions that meet the clients’ complex business and learning needs.
• To manage strategic business projects by co-ordinating key stakeholders from across faculties, central university units and external bodies.

Skills and experience

• A degree or equivalent qualification in a business-related subject and proof of professional development or equivalent relevant experience.
• An outstanding recent new business development track record within the Health and Social Care Sector.
• Ability to build sustainable senior customer relationships from a new and on-going business perspective.
• Excellent senior relationship management and business development skills.
• Experience of working effectively across teams in a matrix environment with the ability to influence multiple stakeholders (internal and external) without direct authority.
• Strong collaborative and team-working ethos, evidence of emotional intelligence and ability to work with diverse groups.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage or oversee successful projects, internally and externally.
• Knowledge of higher education, learning and development, training and/or apprenticeships across the Health and Social Care sector is essential for this role.

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