Overview
Are you a strategic thinking, goal-oriented and tenacious team leader that loves to win new business and support existing client relationships? Do you have a passion for the Pharmacy sector and making a real impact in the world of apprenticeships?
Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are looking for a talented Head of Pharmacy Sales to join our team!
The Role
Strategically leading a Pharmacy Sales team function across a division on Impact Futures, implementing the sales strategic plan to support business growth and expansion of provision within new and existing client relationships. A strategic thinker who understands propositions and can transform them into long term solutions, all whilst leading, motivating, inspiring and mentoring team members to ensure they deliver strategic plans.
Responsibilities
- Strategically lead, motivate, coach and inspire the business development team with full starts/revenue budget accountability. Ensuring the team are working to their full potential to secure new client growth, existing client retention, whilst keeping our Partnership team competitive and sales proposition innovative.
- Ensure the BD strategy is implemented and delivered across the team, in-line with wider business and commercial strategies.
- Work alongside the Director of Growth & Partnerships to develop and execute strategic business development plans to achieve sales targets and grow revenue.
- Performance monitoring, objective setting and coaching of the team, with structured target/forecast reviews and monthly performance measurement meetings.
- Leading on change management across the Partnership team, ensuring the team's structure, approach and processes are in-line with wider business growth and performance objectives.
The role will not involve
- Enrolment
- Learner recruitment
- Bid writing and tenders
- Marketing
- Account Management
…we have teams for all of that!
Benefits
- Uncapped yearly bonus scheme paid quarterly
- 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
- 3 additional days of paid leave for Christmas Shut down
- Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Volunteer day
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan
- Enhanced Maternity paid leave
- Enhanced Paternity paid leave
- Grandparent paid leave
- Bereavement paid leave
- Life Assurance
- Refer a friend bonus
- Electric car vehicle scheme
- 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST
- Shopping discount & cash back platform
- Refer a friend bonus
- Employee Financial Wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Helpline
- Company events and social gatherings
- Appreciation gifts
About You
- Significant and proven sales management background, with a history of meeting and exceeding high value targets within the Pharmacy sector.
- Demonstrable success in leading sales or account management teams to overachieve targets
- Proven in the creation and embedding of sales and/or account management strategies
- Knowledge and experience of the apprenticeships sector and the wider education and training market.
- Experience of developing and presenting solutions made bespoke to a client’s needs through a consultative approach.
- Experience of effectively planning and tracking a client onboarding process to achieve commercial success.
- A proven background in generating business via a variety of proactive, innovative methods inclusive of cold calling, networking and leveraging and extending existing networks.
About Us
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are some of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
- We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for being an outstanding company to work for.
- Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey.
- Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role.