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Regional Business Development Manager

September 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Regional Business Development Manager

Be critical to the growth of Kier Places, and join the Housing Maintenance team winning work across the country to provide essential services to social housing residents.

Regional Business Development Manager

Location: Close to either our Basingstoke or Loughton offices - you will be southern based but willing to undertake national travel

Business Area: Kier Places - Housing Maintenance

Contract: Permanent, full time - Monday to Friday

Thousands of homes across the country rely on Kier Places' housing maintenance teams to repair and maintain their homes. The work that we do is essential to ensuring thousands of people feel safe and secure in their home. Join us to make a real difference

To help realise our growth ambitions, Kier Places are seeking a Business Development Manager, to join our Housing Maintenance Team. As a business, we have set ourselves challenging work winning targets and the successful candidate will be critical to achieving our success. We are looking for talented people with creativity and a passion for winning.

Key Responsibilities

As a focused Business Development Manager, you'll be responsible for increasing revenue within Kier Places by identifying new business opportunities and developing bid plans that optimise our ability to secure these works; you'll pro-actively lead the development of relationships with potential clients and partners; and you'll be expected to maximise the flow of income to the business and expose clients to the wide range of services that Kier have to offer.

As a trusted member of Kier Places, we will look to you to produce key client and opportunity development documents including the plans and project/service specific strategies, and be responsible for ensuring all business development and projects related work is delivered in accordance with Kier, client and statutory Quality, Safety, Health and Environmental policies and procedures and undertake assessments as required.

What do we need from you?

To be a Business Development Manager with Kier, you will have experience in a Social Housing / Housing Maintenance environment, with proven excellence in a sales / business development management role, and with a proven track record of achieving targets. We're on the lookout for those who also have a good knowledge of public sector procurement and bidding for works in our operating sectors, as well as negotiating and presentation skills with an ability to write high level reports, proposal, and tender documents.

Due to the nature of this there, you should be prepared to travel, spend time away from home overnight, and have a flexible approach to working.

Who are we?

Kier Housing Maintenance (HM) have long standing partnership agreements with housing associations, local authorities and private landlords to conduct responsive repairs and planned maintenance across various sites. Our commitment to our clients has resulted in us being shortlisted for Contractor of the Year at the UK Housing Awards 2020.

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover

  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

Be great in a company built on doing good. Join us today as a Business Development Manager.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.

Closing Date: 8th October 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our careers help page.

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