Business Advisor

4 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

**Location**

Manchester

**Company**

The Growth Company

**Contract type**

Fixed term/ Full
- time

**Salary**

Up to £38,000 per annum

**Closing Date**

21/03/2023

**Ref No**

3433

We have an exciting opportunity for a Start Up DCT Advisor (Digital, Creative and Tech) to deliver high quality specialist business growth advice to a portfolio of ambitious business owners and managers of start-up or early-stage businesses that are aiming to achieve growth.

The Growth Company’s Business Growth Hub Digital, Creative and Tech (DCT) is a fully funded programme tailed to help digital, creative and tech companies stabilise, adapt, and grow.

**This is a Fixed Term Contract until 30/09/2023**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Handling client enquiries to assess the business needs for companies within the DCT sector to offer support, advice, and growth
- Effectively manage internal and external client relationships and referrals
- Ensure that potential clients comply with the project eligibility criteria by ensuring that initial eligibility checks, prior to formal assessment and action planning are carried out
- Making sure clients are personally introduced to those services identified as appropriate (internal and external) and monitor the delivery of these services is to support the client’s strategy and/or objectives and address those barriers to growth identified
- Ensure client enquiries and partner referrals are correctly recorded on GC’s CRM and associated service specific data capturing systems, updating progress against agreed actions as plans progress and ensure all administration is completed in timely manner against deadlines and is checked for accuracy
- Work with the relevant businesses closely to monitor any outputs including new jobs created/safeguarded, any GVA increase and other service specific outputs and outcomes that result from activities undertaken
- Undertake detailed diagnostics on a business or a detailed diagnostic on a particular functional or business area using various tools and methods to capture baseline data from clients and identify needs, which should be addressed by developing growth action plans. This will involve the analysis and interpretation of business and market data/intelligence to provide recommendations to senior management teams, boards and shareholders
- Undertake detailed discussions with client around complex business issues to understand their business challenges, making sound recommendations for appropriate actions that will lead to growth and managing the project/intervention to a successful conclusion
- Develop and maintain a high-level network of business/professional contacts that generate personal referrals
- Maintain a connection between the digital technology eco system within GM (and wider UK elements) and the Business Growth Hub, creating pipeline

**About You**
- Have strong knowledge in the key areas of digital, creative and technology and must be willing to constantly develop and maintain this knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of the key national, sub-regional and local organisations and their role in supporting economic development and specifically business growth
- Understanding of customer focused approach of working with businesses to foster engagement and encourage commitment to working towards economic development
- Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify opportunities and to be innovative

**Skills Required**:

- Sales and Account management skills
- Have at least 3 years working within the DCT sector
- Excellent communication and networking skills
- Excellent planning, organisational, administrative and project management skills
- At least degree level business education, or degree level qualification with a management body or the relevant business experience to match those
- Proven track record in managing the range of business issues associated with periods of business growth
- Professional experience and passionate approach to managing and delivering business assessment, advice, and development

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

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