Business Advisor

The Growth Company’s Business Growth Hub has a vacancy for an Business Advisor - Environmental Transport to deliver high quality specialist business growth advice to a portfolio of ambitious business owners and senior managers of businesses that are aimingto reduce their environmental impact, with a strong focus on commercial travel and haulage. The role will assess the potential of eligible businesses, diagnose any barriers to innovation or advancement which may be holding back improvements and agree suitableaction plans to address these and deliver improvement. This will include handling enquiries from first eligibility checks through to the completion and implementation of action plans, linking clients to those services and sources of expertise best suited todeliver practical solutions and instil new knowledge that will underpin future business performance improvements, ensuring this is delivered against operational plans and milestones.

**Key Responsibilities**

**All levels of advisor will have the following responsibilities**:

- Ensure that potential clients comply with 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 that the monitoring and collection of output and impacts data is undertaken throughout the project and at the conclusion of each individual project in-line with funders’ requirements
- Ensure client enquiries and partner referrals are correctly recorded on MGC’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 manneragainst deadlines and is checked for accuracy

**Level 3 advisors will be expected to**:

- Undertake detailed diagnostics on a business or a detailed diagnostic on a particular function or business area (such as the commercial vehicle fleet) using various tools and methods to capture baseline data from clients and identify needs, which shouldbe addressed by developing action plans. This will involve the analysis and interpretation of business and market data/intelligence to provide recommendations to business owners, 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
- Deliver bespoke environmental support directly to enable them to fully meet their improvement potential which typically has needed a more complex intervention; this will also include a multi-disciplinary approach to support provision
- Develop and maintain a high-level network of business/professional contacts that generate personal referrals

**About You**
- Have at least degree level business education, or degree level qualification with a management body or the relevant business experience to match those
- Significant sector(s)/business experience in the private sector, including at a senior management or Director level
- Working effectively in a professional team/s
- Professional experience and approach to managing and delivering business assessment, advice, and development
- Applied understanding of the drivers and barriers to growth in relation to sustainability and net zero
- Proven track record in managing the range of issues associated with reducing the environmental impacts and carbon footprint of businesses
- Sales and Account management skills

**Skills Required**:
**Job Description** As part of our commitment to increase the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum requirements for a role who are Disabled or from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.

The Growth Company 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.

Reasonable adjustments for interviews, whether virtual or face to face, will be considered.