Are you a team player who is commercially minded, with a solid grounding in business operations?
Do you have an understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses on a daily basis?
We’re recruiting for a team member who can bring the skills and experience to take a lead role in providing support to ambitious businesses, maximising their potential and attracting investment to make the South of Scotland a world-class business environment.
About Us
South of Scotland Enterprise (also known as SOSE) is the dedicated Economic and Community Development agency for the Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway. We’re looking for a Specialist to provide support for businesses across Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders.
Established by the Scottish Government, SOSE represents a fresh approach to driving growth across a very special region in a way that benefits all.
We are the first of Scotland’s public agencies to promote a wider view of the economy and how it impacts all we do. Jobs, businesses, communities and the environment are all equally important to us. We want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to fulfil their ambitions, no matter who or where they are.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
As a Business Specialist you will act as the key point of contact providing a range of relevant support activities to ambitious businesses to maximise their potential and help them to respond to opportunities and challenges within the global marketplace. This role will involve regular travel to business premises across the south of Scotland, where you’ll be required to bring your business and development skills to all types of businesses.
We’ll need you to be pro-active and visible, working to identify which businesses have untapped potential and which could have a more positive economic impact in the South of Scotland.
You’ll work with a range of partners in both the public and private sectors to support the attraction of new and secondary investment to the South of Scotland and to help create a world-class business environment.
The Skills, Experience and Personal Attributes You’ll Need to Have
We are looking for a passionate, commercially-minded individual who has experience of providing business advice options at a senior level with the ability to demonstrate credibility with others, including understanding of the issues clients face in growing and diversifying their business and dealing with challenge and change.
It goes without saying that your relationship management, influencing, communication and interpersonal skills will be exceptional, with the ability to focus and achieve results through the development of strategic consultative relationships at a senior level.
Experience in accountancy or finance, including reading and analysing business accounts, would be an advantage.
What We’ll Offer You
We offer a competitive and varied reward package, designed to cover your wellbeing, your lifestyle, your working life and your future, including generous annual leave entitlement and pension contribution. Our salary ranges are designed to be competitive and new entrants will normally start on the minimum of the pay range, except in exceptional circumstances.
At South of Scotland Enterprise, we celebrate and support differences. We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestral heritage, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity and expression, or veteran status. If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under The Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do all we can to support you.
We operate a hybrid working model balancing working from home with attendance at the office/client premises to meet the needs of our clients, our teams and our employees. We do require employees to attend meetings/client visits in the region in person on a regular basis.
You will be required to travel regularly across the south of Scotland region, so access to a vehicle or other means of transport, for example access to work arrangements, is essential.
This role is full time and permanent, although we will consider alternative working patterns.
If you are an Inclusive, Responsible and Bold individual who is always Striving for success and believe you have something to offer the South of Scotland as a Business Specialist, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the s1jobs APPLY button now.