Client Relationship Manager

Position

Location: Remote

Salary: £36,000 per annum

Hours: 36.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

We are expanding our commercial team and seeking a motivated client relationship professional to lead the development and maintenance of strong relationships with clients and carrying out innovated and impactful winning pitches to large new business clients to further grow Paragon Skills in line with business objectives and ambitious growth plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing key client accounts, maintaining long term relationships, and maximising sales opportunities
• Engage with employers to promote apprenticeships and other commercial training opportunities
• Play an integral role in new business pitches and hold responsibility for the effective on-boarding of new clients
• Communicate learning and development solutions in saleable propositions that encourage utilisation of programmes offered by Paragon Skills by all clients
• Use innovation as a tool to achieve growth and encourage development in others
• Plan and prioritise personal sales activities towards achieving agreed business aims

What We're Looking For:

• Experience of business development and account management
• Experience of working within a training and education organisation, ideally apprenticeships
• Experience of pitching to and working with large multisite clients for new business opportunities
• Experience of using a consultative approach to support clients with the design of apprenticeship models that support their specific needs
• Experience of helping HR and L&D professionals develop their L&D strategy and spend levy fund
• Grade A-C GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent
• Level 3 Information, Advice and Guidance or willingness to acquire

We are proud to offer a suite of Paragon Choices which are optional benefits alongside our core benefits below!

 25 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)

. Holiday purchase scheme

Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives

Recognition and long service awards to celebrate our colleagues'

  Perkbox - a suite of discounts, lifestyle benefits and wellness tools

. 3% matched  Employer Pension contribution

. In person team meetings and 1:1s

.  Enhanced Maternity leave after 2 years of service

. Income protection and Life Assurance

.  Recommend a colleague incentive schemes, where you can benefit £500 for referring great people to work with us

. CPD and training opportunities

. 4pm Friday finish  with flexible working opportunities available

. Flexible and supportive team and with a great culture

.  Employee Assistance Programme , with a dedicated People Team to support all colleagues

We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role.

To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.

Paragon Skills is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and we implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependant on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are also committed to promoting equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.