We are looking for a Client Sales Executive to join our Bauer Academy Team in Manchester, London or Peterborough.
As Bauer Academy continues to grow, we need you to join our dedicated sales team who are passionate about Learning & Development. In this role you will be responsible for financial growth in the apprenticeship and L&D area for Bauer.
Our Team
This role sits within the Bauer Academy Commercial Team and reports into the Commercial Director. Bauer Academy are Bauer Media’s in-house training provider, offering work-based learning solutions and apprenticeships to over 60 external clients, as well as to Bauer’s people across 14 countries. Originally established as a pipeline for new talent, we are now a government-registered learning and development Centre of Excellence with a team of passionate industry experts. We design and deliver courses, workshops and apprenticeships in the areas of leadership, journalism, content creation and media production.
In this role you will be working from home and our office location in either Manchester, London or Peterborough.
What you will do
1. React to all incoming activity on the apprenticeship portal – maximising opportunity and revenues.
2. To develop current clients through other apprenticeship standards and into L & D
3. Create contact and build relationships with Heads of L &D gauging their needs and developing proposals to address.
4. Create strategies to successfully reach new business opportunities.
5. Attending conferences and events to build relationships and identify new opportunities in the market.
6. Client meetings
7. Creating trading agreements
8. Forecasting sales
9. Collaborating with other members of the team to ensure the highest quality decks and presentations are delivered to clients.
10. To work alongside the CD and sales team to develop sales collateral.
What you will bring
11. Experience implementing effective sales processes and plans.
12. Proactive
13. Experience identifying and converting new business leads and exploiting commercial opportunities.
14. Experience in working in a target driven environment with a good sales history.
15. Experience building long term client relationships, with evidenced growth.
16. Excellent business development skills
17. Excellent Pitching experience - face to face and remote sales experience
18. Good presenting skills
19. Entrepreneurial in approach – always looking for opportunities with fresh ideas. Highly collaborative, a team player, with good inter-personal skills and the ability to motivate others.
20. Have knowledge of apprenticeship Levy and manipulation thereof. Transfers/5% etc. to increase business opportunity – not essential.
Expiry Date 12th May 2024
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
21. 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
22. Discounted high street vouchers
23. Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
24. Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
25. Opportunity to buy additional holiday
26. Company pension
27. Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
28. Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
29. Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
30. Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
About Bauer Academy
We are proud to be the home of our award-winning education business, The Bauer Academy
Bauer Academy is a training provider unlike any other because we are part of one of the world’s biggest media businesses.
Our multi-media training provider is recognised on the Register of Government Approved Apprenticeship Training Providers, certified by the Education and Skills Funding Authority and examination centre for bodies including the NCTJ and CiM.
The Academy combines the worlds of media, business and education to design and deliver unique learning & development opportunities including, Apprenticeship Standard programmes, customised corporate training and powerful community projects.
The Bauer Academy also has a long history of creating community projects, partnering with organisations such as the Big Lottery, Prince’s Trust and the European Social Fund, to train under-represented individuals new creative skills that assist with their employability prospects. In turn, this has created a significant new talent pipeline for Bauer Media and our partner businesses.
Find out more about the Academy at