Business Growth Manager £40k

Location: Manchester City Centre / Home based

Contract type: Maternity cover

An exciting opportunity for a Business Growth Development Manager to lead on the strategic operational relationships with key stakeholders relating specifically to International Trade, public bodies, national programmes and sponsors as well as international partners.

We are dedicated to helping businesses grow and entrepreneurs realise their ambitions.  In this role you will:

• Foresee and maintain a high level of awareness of national policy and programme developments related to international trade, be able to influence and contribute to these and relate such developments back to service delivery across a range of local delivery partners.
• Maintain strong and effective working relationships with all partners including Business Growth Hub partners, stakeholders and funders  including CA/LEP, Government Departments and their agencies and other LEPs, encouraging the sharing of good practice, help facilitate future partnership working and project development and enable the company to access external funding.
• Identify and evaluate influential contacts in new or existing partners who have a focus on international trade who can contribute to Greater Manchester’s desire to enhance levels of international trade.
• Co-ordinate develop and support input into calls for funding, bidding and tendering.
• Contribute to the development of strategically significant international trade related project packages working with a range of partner delivery organisations as appropriate.
• Identify requirements and commission research to enable the company to determine international trade priorities.

We are ideally looking for applicants with a business development background, preferably in third of public sector but not necessarily, trade or international experience (preferable) and must be interested in politics and economics.

Interested ? please email your CV to [email protected] to find out more.