Business Development Manager

Location: Mainland China, preferably Beijing

Hours: 37 per week

A bit about us

Here at NCUK, we consider ourselves a unique organisation. A consortium of leading international universities, NCUK is an international organisation, and we provide overseas students with guaranteed access to universities through our pathway qualifications. More than 50,000 students have successfully progressed to NCUK Universities worldwide by completing our qualifications. Our qualifications combine the highest of academic standards with exceptional language, study and cultural skills, and are currently delivered in more than 30 different countries across four continents. NCUK is a trading subsidiary of the Northern Consortium, a registered educational charity.

What we’re looking for

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, customer-focussed individual to join NCUK as Business Development Manager. This role will be responsible for managing the Business Development (China) function within NCUK to meet or exceed company goals for profitable revenue growth.

What will you do?

This role will be responsible for managing business development and account management activity within the China region and to work collaboratively across all regions and/or strategic project work streams to ensure the sharing of best practice across the NCUK network, taking responsibility as the lead.

The successful candidate will identify prospects, leading to the development of new NCUK Study Centres in strategic locations and in line with the Strategic Plan. You will ensure that such prospects will deliver a variety of NCUK programmes to achieve NCUK objectives and recruitment and placement targets with a focus on pathway provision.

What do you need?

To thrive in this role, the ideal candidate will:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent qualification
• Have extensive experience in business development
• Have project management experience
• Be fluent in English
• Have an understanding of the British Higher Education system
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including sensitivity to different cultures and the confidence of giving presentations to large audiences

What we offer

• Attractive pension scheme
• 35 days holiday inclusive of local bank holidays
• Sick pay
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave pay
• Perkbox – monthly points to spend
• LinkedIn Learning
• Health insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working
• End of year shutdown - discretionary days off between Christmas and New Year

How to apply

Please click the ‘Apply’ button above to submit your CV with a short covering letter highlighting how your experience and skills meet the requirements of the job description/person specification. Your CV should be in Microsoft Word or PDF Format.

If you have any questions, please email vacancies@ncuk.ac.uk. 

At NCUK, we value diversity and the importance of an inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities, women, young people, ethnically diverse people, Veterans and serving British regular or reserve Armed Forces Personnel and the LGBTQ+ community.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

The interview process will be:

1. Competency based interview via MS Teams
2. If successful at first stage, you will be invited to an informal meeting via MS Teams

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications - if you’re interested, please submit your application as early as possible.*

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