Early Career Business Coach

Guardian Jobs; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Business Transformation Coach to partner with ambitious manufacturing businesses. This role focuses on delivering visionary projects, providing essential training and mentoring, and influencing client success through effective change management. Ideal candidates will have 2-4 years of relevant experience and be ready for up to four nights away each week. Join us in building relationships that inspire change and growth across various industries.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in leading projects in any industry.
• Demonstrable success in driving change with cross-functional teams.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with manufacturing businesses to deliver projects.
• Provide training and mentoring to clients.
• Influence and instigate change across client organisations.
• Manage client engagements with support from mentors.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Data interpretation

Building trust and credibility

Job description

Overview

In this role, you’ll be working with ambitious manufacturing businesses to help them deliver visionary projects, working with senior leaders down to shop-floor staff, across finance, cost, estimating, procurement, engineering, quality, business development, and business transformation. This role is very project-based, and your title will be “Business Transformation Coach.” We’ll provide training, guidance and mentoring you’ll need. We work with our clients, not for them, and we’re business transformation experts providing support, coaching and expertise to enable companies to thrive.

This role will appeal to you if your traits are inquisitive, humble, and articulate. Our team of transformation coaches thrive on developing great people and businesses for this generation and the next. There’s variety every day, and you’ll be influencing and instigating progressive change.

This is not a tick-box job or a boxed-off role in a specific department and/or company. You’ll learn from fellow coaches and broaden your knowledge and understanding of how a rich variety of business types can operate, develop, and thrive.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with ambitious manufacturing businesses to deliver visionary projects.
• Provide training, guidance and mentoring to clients and their teams.
• Engage with stakeholders across finance, cost, estimating, procurement, engineering, quality, business development and business transformation.
• Work with clients, not for them, delivering transformation coaching and expertise to enable success.
• Influence and instigate progressive change across client organisations.
• Learn from fellow coaches and broaden knowledge of diverse business types; support clients on multiple engagements.
• Work with a mentor and on-site project leader initially; grow to support more clients and take on overall project ownership.
• This is a client-facing role which may require travel away from home in the UK up to four nights a week.

Key Requirements

• Two to four years of experience in leading and delivering projects (within any industry)
• Demonstrable success in driving change by working with or leading a cross-functional team
• Evidence of influencing the thinking of senior business leaders, building trust and credibility
• IT proficiency - the ability to interpret and manipulate data via Microsoft Excel
• A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle

Note: Please note that this is a client-facing role which will require you to work away from home (in the UK) up to four nights a week.

Why this role

You’ll be working for a company that values integrity, inspiration, and purpose. This role is about building relationships, trust, and credibility, and influencing without authority to enable solutions. You’ll learn from mentors and gradually take on wider project ownership while travelling and working remotely, with some time spent from home on Fridays.

We help to inspire clarity of purpose, efficient working environments, and professional engagement. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with local workforces, training, coaching, and mentoring businesses to address their goals and challenges. We aim to share expert knowledge and help ambitious supply chain companies grow, evolve, and thrive.

How to apply

Interested…? Click apply. Your CV will be reviewed by our retained recruitment partner. You will then be asked to provide supporting information relevant to the role. Shortlisted applicants, whose supporting information aligns with the role, will be contacted for an informal telephone call, during which full details of the position and the benefits package will be provided before a mutual decision on whether to submit a formal application for this job opportunity.