Business Development Support Consultant

**Business Development Support Consultant**

**Salary**:£28-31k, depending on experience, plus bonus and benefits
**Contract**:Permanent; immediate start

We are looking for a Business Development Support Consultant to support the operation of the Business Development (Bus Dev) area.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference within a growing organisation, while taking significant responsibility and learning about how a medium-sized business operates.

**Key tasks & responsibilities**

The Bus Dev area consists of three functions: Client Account Management (CAM), Proposition & Practice Area (PPA) and Marketing. You will support each these functions and the wider area. Examples of tasks involved are:

- Marketing function support_
- Client mailer production: project management; upload articles to website; liaise with distribution partner; analyse engagement
- Social media support: post content; analyse engagement
- Advertising: creative input into adverts; manage campaigns; analyse effectiveness
- Custodianship of marketing library / guidelines
- Website administration / analytics
- Competitor research
- CAM support_
- Coordinate proposals: liaise with business; draft proposals; project management
- Support creation and maintenance of account plans: draft / update CAM plans; manage individual plans
- Lead generation management: coordinate lead gen activities; develop communication messages; client / contact research; manage relationship with external lead gen partner; monitor campaign progress
- Coordinate Statement of Work production: liaise with business; create drafts; project management
- PPA function support_
- Support proposition owners, including horizon scanning and case study production
- Bus Dev area support_
- Bus Dev area meeting coordination
- Development / delivery of management information
- Data optimisation and reporting from our CRM system
- Project management of strategic plans

APR has a strong track record of developing our staff. You will quickly acquire skills invaluable for your future career, with opportunities to develop into senior roles within the business.

We encourage staff to achieve professional qualifications, and while your area of involvement and your own interest will determine the pathway you take, we will support you in achieving relevant qualifications, for example in project management or businessanalysis.

**What we need from you**
- Important_
- Well-organised, able to prioritise and manage own workload, including at times working without supervision
- Self-confident, able to make decisions on own where appropriate, but also recognise where input from senior colleagues is required
- Numerate and analytical, with excellent attention to detail
- Conscientious, with a positive, pragmatic attitude and willingness to get stuck in
- Quick learner able to demonstrate initiative and follow ideas through to completion
- Excellent communicator (written and verbal), with strong people / interpersonal skills
- Good general IT skills, in particular Word and Excel
- Educated to degree level, or with relevant experience in a similar role
- Desirable_
- Able to understand the big picture as well as the detail
- More developed IT skills, eg advanced Excel, coding or CRM admin
- Project management experience

**About APR**

APR provides high-quality actuarial, technical and data-driven services to our clients (primarily insurance companies) across UK and Ireland.

We offer clients high-quality actuarial and technical solutions, aiming to be the most trusted provider of interim and project actuarial services in the market. Our solutions take the form of resourcing - providing individuals to supplement clients’ ownteams; and consulting - delivering a specific solution.

We have grown considerably and now employ over 80 actuarial staff, supported by a dedicated central team. Demand for our services continues to increase, and we are seeking to expand this team with one or two highly capable individuals to support the nextstage of growth. These individuals will play an important role in enabling the leadership team to implement projects and processes to facilitate this change.

APR is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive organisation, where opportunity and success is available to all regardless of background or other characteristics, and will be influenced by your ability and the contributions you make.
- We Excel
We Simplify
We Nurture
We Dare
We Care_

Please see our website for more details.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to be successful within this role, click on APPLY today

**No agencies please