National Education Business Development Manager

Salary: Up to £50,000 DOE + Car Allowance + Uncapped Commission / Bonus
Manchester HQ | National Remit
Schools | Multi-Academy Trusts | SEN | Independent Education
Pure Business Development – No Candidate Desk

Can you open doors with Headteachers, CEOs and Trust leaders?

Do you love winning business but have no interest in spending your day sourcing candidates?

Could you turn one conversation with a MAT CEO into a recruitment partnership across 10, 20 or 50+ schools?

KPI Education is looking for a commercially driven National Education Business Development Manager to spearhead our next phase of national growth.

This is not a 360 recruitment role.

Your job is simple:

WIN BUSINESS.

You'll identify, approach and develop relationships with schools, Multi-Academy Trusts, SEN organisations and education groups across the UK.

You win the vacancy. Our consultants deliver it.

From a £25,000 support appointment through to a £150,000+ CEO search, you'll sell recruitment solutions across the entire education staffing structure.

What you'll be winning

• CEO & Executive Leadership
• Headteachers & Principals
• Deputy & Assistant Headteachers
• Directors of Education
• CFO / COO appointments
• HR, People & Talent
• School Business & Operations
• Teachers & Subject Leaders
• SEN & Specialist Education
• Pastoral & Safeguarding
• Teaching & Learning Support
• Graduate & Future Teacher pipelines
• Temporary, long-term and permanent recruitment

Your Mission

You'll be responsible for creating opportunities across the UK by:

• Targeting new schools and MATs
• Building relationships with CEOs, Headteachers, COOs, CFOs and HR Directors
• Generating vacancies for KPI's specialist consultants
• Securing PSL and preferred-supplier agreements
• Winning Trust-wide recruitment partnerships
• Arranging and attending face-to-face meetings
• Visiting schools and Trust headquarters nationally
• Presenting KPI Education's recruitment solutions
• Negotiating commercial terms
• Re-engaging dormant accounts
• Identifying cross-selling opportunities
• Building a substantial national sales pipeline
• Converting conversations into revenue

We're Looking for a Proper Business Developer

Someone who picks up the phone.

Someone who gets past the gatekeeper.

Someone who can walk into a meeting with a CEO or Headteacher and hold their own.

Someone who doesn't wait for vacancies to appear on a job board.

They find the opportunity before everybody else does.

You'll ideally have a successful background in education recruitment, recruitment sales or B2B business development, with evidence that you can develop relationships and win significant new accounts.

The Package

• Basic salary up to £50,000 DOE
• Car allowance
• Uncapped commission / bonus
• Pure business development – no candidate desk
• National territory
• 25 days' annual leave
• Your birthday off
• Manchester HQ
• Full delivery support from KPI's recruitment consultants
• Direct access to senior leadership
• Autonomy to build your national BD strategy
• Opportunity to develop major MAT and education-group accounts
• Genuine scope for the position to grow as KPI Education expands

Don't Manage Vacancies. Create Them.

Plenty of recruiters can work a vacancy once it's landed.

We're looking for the person who makes it land with KPI Education in the first place.

Bring us the schools.
Bring us the Trusts.
Bring us the vacancies.
We'll give you the delivery team to fill them.

If you're commercially hungry, confident in front of senior decision-makers and want your earning potential linked directly to the business you create, we want to speak to you.

Apply today for a confidential conversation about becoming KPI Education's National Education Business Development Manager.