Business Account Manager

Nottingham City Council; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 37.000 - 61.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Annual leave 26-33 days

Employee wellbeing programme

Discounts

Zusammenfassung

Nottingham City Council is seeking a Business Account Manager to support local businesses by ensuring access to available support to overcome barriers and reach growth potential. You will deliver the Council's Business Support & Business Account Management Service and Investment Readiness Programme across NCC sites and partner venues.

The role involves engaging new businesses, managing a portfolio, creating action plans, providing growth advice, and travel across the city.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering business support, advice, IBD and account management.
• Working knowledge of the business support landscape and ability to broker businesses into internal/external support.
• Experience helping businesses access finance and understand finance options.
• Experience working in diverse environments and delivering growth within a business.
• Full, clean Driving Licence and access to a vehicle is preferred due to travel requirements.

Aufgaben

• Deliver Nottingham City Council's Business Support & Business Account Management Service and Investment Readiness Programme.
• Engage new businesses and manage a portfolio of current organisations; assess needs and create action plans.
• Provide business support and advice to aid growth, sustainability and planning.
• Travel across the city to NCC sites, partner venues and business premises as required.

Kenntnisse

Business support

Account management

Driving licence

Stakeholder engagement

Jobbeschreibung

Business Account Manager

An opportunity to play a pivotal role in supporting Nottingham City businesses by proactively working to ensure that they are accessing all available support in overcoming barriers to growth and in reaching their full growth potential.

This role involves delivering Nottingham City Council's Business Support & Business Account Management Service and Investment Readiness Programme. Responsible for engaging new businesses and managing a portfolio of current organisations, the primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to; understanding and assessing business needs, creating action plans and providing business support and advice to support business growth, sustainability and planning. Event management and speaking will be required, travel across the city to various NCC sites, partner venues and business premises is essential. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying businesses to access the investment readiness programme, manage this journey for individual cohorts of businesses and support businesses with funding applications. Ensuring the business support service is accessible and representative of the vast diversity within Nottingham City is a key priority of the business support service, dedication to employing inclusive procedures and best practice is essential to this role.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of delivering business support, advice, IBD and account management
• Current and working knowledge of the business support landscape and experience in navigating this to broker businesses into internal and external support
• Experience of working with businesses to access finance and understand the various finance options
• Experience of working within a diverse environment, successfully engaging businesses and delivering growth within a business(s)
• Full, Clean Driving Licence and access to a vehicle is preferred due to the nature of travel required and transporting materials.

• This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.
• At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the for applicants page.
• Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council ., Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair, inclusive and Disability Confident Employer, welcoming applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference. If you are a disabled candidate and wish to be considered under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this within your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment journey. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from serving personnel, veterans, reservists and military families. We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the LGBTQ+ community, or are disabled. These groups are currently underrepresented in our workforce, and we are committed to better reflecting the communities we serve. We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and encourage candidates to discuss this with us during the recruitment process.