Location: Midlands
- Candidates are required to provide a covering letter and a C.V.
- Location – Yorkshire and the Humber
- Salary - £45,000.
- Deadline for applications – 23rd April 2021
Summary:
With an office in central Leeds, the CBI Yorkshire and the Humber team covers East, West, North and South Yorkshire as well as North and North East Lincolnshire
This is an exciting opportunity to get involved with the Yorkshire and the Humber regional operations of the CBI, the UK’s leading business membership organisation. The Associate Regional Director works with the Regional Director to support CBI members, grow the membership base and raise the profile of the CBI in the Yorkshire and the Humber through events, a social media presences and relationships with key stakeholders.
If you are interested in helping the region’s businesses recover from the pandemic, navigate the changing political and economic landscape and achieving its net zero ambitions and are interested in political and current affairs, love business and have the credibility and commercial acumen to work with the Region’s leading business leaders, join the UK’s leading business membership organisation and contribute to supporting economic growth in this dynamic region.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the relationship with a portfolio of member companies to ensure that CBI supports their business to grow
- Grow the membership base in the region and achieve specific financial targets through focussed recruitment strategies
- Understand and articulate the needs of specific sectors of relevance to the regional economy and create solutions to support the development of these sectors
- Utilise your understanding of the political and economic environment to attract and recruit new members to engage in CBI activity
- Develop networks within the Yorkshire and the Humber business community, maintaining the profile of the CBI
- Deputise for the regional director when required.
- Work with the Regional Director and team to provide a compelling membership offer to existing and potential CBI members
- Support policy colleagues with case studies from the membership that demonstrate how policy impacts competitiveness, helping CBI influence the debate
- Work with colleagues across the UK and internationally to identify business trends and to alert policy makers of the implications of these changes in the business environment
- Help to design and deliver the business plan for CBI activities in the Yorkshire and the Humber.
- Facilitate events / roundtables / lunches/ briefing focused on regional policy issues of relevance to CBI members and effectively advocate the CBI position
Knowledge & Experience
What an individual must know or understand to be able to fulfil the role’s requirements:
- Experience of sales and account management from a business to business context, ideally in a professional services or not for profit environment
- Comfortable using social media platforms to promote the regional and national activities for the benefit of members but also to attract interest from non members
- IT literate and willingness to learn new systems – adept on CRM platforms
- Willingness to perform most of your own administrative work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Comfortable in dealing with the media – specific media training will be provided
- Ability to develop good working relationship with internal and external customers
- Relevant business background demonstrating commercial awareness
- Good knowledge of the regional, national and international economic and political climate
- Understanding of the commercial and industrial make up of Yorkshire and the Humber
Skills
The practical actions required to be able to fulfil the role’s requirements
- Relevant business background demonstrating commercial awareness
- Credible with an ability to develop good working relationships at a senior level
- Demonstrate and deploy innovative sales techniques
- Must be curious and enjoy learning about new businesses and sectors
- Enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude with an ability to sell an intangible product
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Self-motivated and proactive
- First class networking skills
- Full driving license holder
Behaviours
The behaviours and characteristics required to be able to fulfil the role’s requirements
- Collaborative – Listening, seeking views and sharing information; constructively challenging when appropriate
- Taking ownership – Ensuring delivery and holding others to account; can influence, irrespective of hierarchy, decisive and able to prioritise
- Agile – Proactive and responsive to provide a strong member service; responding positively to shifting priorities
- Commercial – Awareness of the wider business environment
- Innovative – Exploring, sharing and integrating best practice; generating new ideas and challenging a mind-set of “what we’ve always done”
- Analytical – gathering information and using logic to analyse, problem solve, evaluate risk and make decisions
Diversity & Inclusion
At the CBI, we are committed to attracting diverse talent that represents the society we live in.
We encourage applications from all regardless of age, sexuality, socio-economic background, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, or beliefs. We are committed to building a culture of belonging and inclusion and this is reflected in our policies, practices, and internal employee-led networks and supported by our executive leadership team.
We are a family friendly organisation and we encourage flexible working as we want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. Currently our employees are working flexibly (formally and informally) and remotely due to COVID-19, but we offer the opportunity to work in our offices in line with government guidance if somebody should need to.
Our employee-led networks are: BAME, LGBT, Women’s and Working Families and we have qualified Mental Health First Aiders who support our employees in having good mental health.
If the above feels like an organisation that you would like to work for then we encourage you to apply and join our diverse workforce.
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