Business Development Manager – Early Years Apprenticeships

LT Selection; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

LT Selection is recruiting a commercially driven Business Development Manager to grow its Early Years employer portfolio. This is a new-business-led role with approximately 80% focus on winning new employer partnerships and 20% on developing existing accounts.

The role covers outbound prospecting, full sales cycle management, and a handover to the account management team, with remote work and two UK office days per month.

Qualifications

• Proven record in B2B sales and new-business development.
• Experience managing a full sales cycle from prospecting to closing.
• Confident communicator with negotiation skills.
• CRM proficiency and forecasting discipline.
• Understanding of Early Years sector or apprenticeships is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research and target employers with a genuine requirement for Early Years apprenticeships.
• Generate new opportunities through outbound activity across phone, email, LinkedIn.
• Build relationships with nursery groups, childcare employers, HR teams, senior decision-makers.
• Lead discovery meetings to understand recruitment and skills-development needs.
• Present tailored apprenticeship and commercial training solutions.
• Manage the full sales process from proposals to conversion.
• Maintain activity, pipeline and forecasting in HubSpot.
• Collaborate with operations to ensure smooth handover.

Job description

Business Development Manager – Early Years Apprenticeships

Remote / South West London, United Kingdom | Posted on 26/08/2026

• Salary £40,000 basic + up to £10,000 OTE per annum
• City Remote / South West London
• Province Richmond upon Thames
• Country United Kingdom
• Postal Code TW1 3QS

Job Description

Business Development Manager – Early Years Apprenticeships

£40,000 basic + up to £10,000 OTE | Remote, with a minimum of two office days per month in South West London | Full-time, permanent

LT Selection is recruiting on behalf of an established apprenticeship and training provider seeking a commercially driven Business Development Manager to grow its Early Years employer portfolio.

This is a new-business-led role, weighted approximately 80% toward winning new employer partnerships and 20% toward developing existing accounts. You will own the full sales cycle, from targeted prospecting and first conversation through to proposal, agreement and a successful handover to the account management team.

The role

• Research and target employers with a genuine requirement for Early Years apprenticeships and workforce-development solutions.
• Generate new opportunities through structured outbound activity across telephone, email, LinkedIn and relevant prospecting tools.
• Build credible relationships with nursery groups, childcare employers, HR teams, learning and development leads and senior decision-makers.
• Lead consultative discovery meetings to understand recruitment, retention, progression and skills-development needs.
• Present tailored apprenticeship and commercial training solutions clearly and confidently.
• Manage the full sales process, including proposals, presentations, negotiation, follow-up and conversion.
• Maintain accurate activity, pipeline, forecasting and conversion data within HubSpot.
• Work closely with operational and account-management colleagues to ensure every new employer is handed over effectively.

What success looks like

• Approximately 10 qualified employer meetings each week.
• Three to five new employer accounts each month.
• Twenty to twenty-five learner starts each month.
• Quarterly commercial-training sales.
• A strong and consistently managed proposal-to-sale conversion rate.

About you

• A proven record in B2B sales, business development or employer engagement.
• Experience managing a complete sales cycle rather than simply generating leads.
• Confident communication, presentation, relationship-building and negotiation skills.
• A disciplined approach to CRM use, pipeline management and forecasting.
• A consultative style with the resilience and motivation required for a predominantly new-business role.
• An understanding of apprenticeships, funded training, funding rules, standards and compliance.
• Early Years, childcare or apprenticeship-sales experience would be a strong advantage.

Confidentiality

The employer will remain confidential during the initial application and screening stage. LT Selection will explain the organisation and opportunity fully to suitable candidates before any CV is shared, and no CV will be submitted without the candidate’s agreement.