Job Description
Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC624190
Salary Range: £48,948 - £54,423 pro-rata, per annum
Work Location: Elizabeth II Court, Winchester
Hours per week: 22.2
Contract Type: Permanent (Term-Time only)
Closing Date: 17 June 2026
Interview Date: 7 July 2026
The Role:
Join us as a Business Development Manager, where you’ll bring specialist expertise to our Education and Inclusion team, driving the growth and development of our highly regarded traded services and supporting long-term success. You’ll take a proactive, customer-focused approach to change - using insight and innovation to strengthen existing services while identifying new opportunities and audiences.
Working as part of a small team, closely aligned to Heads of Service, you’ll play a key role across the full project lifecycle, spanning both statutory and commercial services. You’ll help deliver sustainable, high-quality outcomes in a collaborative environment that supports your ideas, values your expertise, and encourages your professional growth.
What you’ll do:
- Plan and implement business development and customer engagement plans to drive growth and service uptake.
- Lead and coordinate business planning activities, including business case development, reviews, and delivery of key projects.
- Manage change and development programmes, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, milestones, and timelines.
- Monitor performance and customer satisfaction, using insight and data to drive continuous improvement.
- Conduct market research and stakeholder consultation to identify new opportunities, customer needs, and emerging trends.
- Build strong relationships with key partners and contribute to tendering strategies and successful bid development.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong understanding of service development and improvement, with awareness of the challenges facing local government and public services.
- Demonstratable experience of leading projects from design to delivery, including working across teams and managing outcomes in a matrix environment.
- Proven background in business development, customer engagement, and commercial activity, including pricing and service growth.
- Confident using data and financial insight to support decision-making, improve performance, and demonstrate value.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and co-produce solutions with stakeholders.
- Adaptable, professional, and solutions-focused, with a commitment to quality and the confidence to operate in a complex, politically aware environment.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Business Development Manager role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
Why join us?
- Be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values your expertise and encourages innovation.
- Play a key role in shaping and improving vital education and inclusion services with real community impact.
- Enjoy a varied role working across both statutory and commercial services, driving meaningful change.
- Benefit from opportunities for professional growth and development within a forward-thinking local authority.
- A competitive benefits package that includes generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here.
Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK.
Other roles you may have experience of may include: Project Manager, Programme Manager, Lean Consultant, Transformation Consultant, Continuous Improvement Manager, Service Growth Manager, Commercial Partnerships Manager, Education Partnerships Manager, School Partnerships Manager, Education Development Manager, Business Development Lead, Strategic Partnerships Manager
Travel Requirements:
You may be required to visit other locations within Hampshire, and therefore need to have the ability to travel, as necessary.
Additional Information:
Business Development Manager Candidate Pack
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For general enquiries, please contact [email protected]
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Jenni Davies, Head of Business Operations on [email protected]
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.