October 21, 2026 Business Development Manager

Eliesha Training Ltd; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Profit-share bonus

Hybrid working

Professional development

Variety and influence

Job summary

Eliesha Training Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a seasoned business development professional to drive growth. You will identify new opportunities, develop proposals and bids, and build strong client relationships.

Based in our Newcastle office, you’ll split time between office, home, and client sites. The role focuses on selling leadership and management development solutions to organisations, with a proactive, listening approach.

Qualifications

• Background in B2B sales and building client relationships.
• Ability to develop proposals and respond to bids.
• Understanding of leadership development products and client challenges.

Responsibilities

• Identify new business opportunities and develop proposals.
• Support bids and respond to client inquiries with timely, compelling proposals.
• Build and sustain relationships with existing and prospective clients.

Skills

B2B sales

Client relations

Proposal development

Bid responses

Networking

Job description

Location Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne (NE4)

Ownership structure Employee Trust owned including profit-share bonus

Why?

One of the mantras in leadership development is to ‘start with the why’.

Why do we need you? Because we are looking for someone to help us grow. You’ll be generating opportunities and business. You’ll be helping clients explore challenges, identify opportunities and discover solutions that genuinely support their people and organisational goals.

Why should you want to work for us? Because we’re a small, successful team, who will support you and give you the space you need to demonstrate how great you can be.

What?

You’ll be able to hit the ground running. You’ll identify new business, develop proposals, support bids and network with clients. You’ll be delivering B2B sales. You’ll act as a client relationship manager, helping create solutions directly with customers. You’ll continue to cultivate your passion for leadership and management, sharing best practice across the company.

Where?

You’ll be based in our Newcastle Upon Tyne office, where we are office-based for Tuesday to Thursday every week. But you’ll also be out with existing and potential clients, and other stakeholders.

When?

This is a full-time role. The position is vacant now, so we’re ready to go when you are.

How?

As potential clients contact us, you’ll take responsibility for responding to them, creating proposals and bid responses. This is fast-paced work, where you will be managing multiple deadlines. You’ll also act as a senior point of contact for existing clients, providing ideas and creative input to contact discussions.

You’ll work closely with the existing Business Development and Contract teams, so the work will be varied. You’ll use your expertise to grow the role, and we will benefit from your experience as much as you learn from us.

Who?

We’re looking for someone with a background in B2B sales, who is able to develop relationships with new and existing clients. Someone who is commercially-minded and knows how to close a sale. It’s essential that you understand our product – leadership and management development – so that you can match our solutions to the challenges our clients face. This is a role for someone who enjoys opening doors, building relationships and creating opportunities, but who understands that the best business development starts with listening.

About Eliesha

At Eliesha, we believe leadership development should make a real difference. Not simply fill a training calendar, but equip people to lead with confidence, manage effectively and create positive change within their organisations.

For over 25 years, we’ve worked alongside clients across the public, private and third sectors to develop managers, leaders and teams. We’ve built our reputation on delivering practical, high-impact learning that helps organisations address real challenges and achieve meaningful results.

What we offer

• Employee ownership: Membership of our Employee Ownership Trust scheme and an annual profit-share bonus.
• Meaningful impact: Help organisations strengthen leadership capability, management effectiveness and organisational performance.
• Professional development: Continue to deepen your business development, consultancy and learning expertise.
• Variety and influence: Work across new business, client relationships, proposals, solution design and strategic growth.
• Hybrid working: Combine office, home and client-facing activity within a collaborative working environment.

The Eliesha behaviours

• Empowered: We support colleagues and partners, enabling everyone to feel respected, valued and able to reach their potential.
• Professional: We act with honesty and integrity, take ownership and deliver work to a consistently high standard.
• Creative: We use feedback and new ideas to improve how we meet existing and future customer needs.
• Partnership: We communicate openly and build collaborative, trusting relationships that support shared success.

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