Senior Public Sector National Sales Account Manager

City of London
2 weeks ago
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Blue Arrow is a leading global Talent Acquisition and Managed Workforce Solutions provider. Blue Arrow specialises in staffing for Admin & Secretarial including Call Centre, Transport & Logistics, Hospitality & Catering, Manufacturing & Production and Public Sector.

Join our #OneBlueFamily as a field based Senior National Account Manager to develop strategic relationships with public sector clients across the UK. Your role will be to increase our market share, drive growth and generate new business.

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities as a Senior National Account Manager include:

Develop and implement sales strategies to target and secure contracts with public sector clients including local and central government, NHS, Education, councils and other nonprofit organisations
Identify and pursue new sales opportunities through research, networking, and building relationships with decision-makers within the public sector
Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with key stakeholders in government agencies and public sector entities
Act as the primary point of contact for clients, understanding their needs and ensuring that solutions are aligned with their specific requirements
With support from the dedicated Bid Team, respond to Request for Proposals, Invitations to Tender and other public sector bidding processes
Collaborate with internal teams to create compelling proposals that meet the technical, financial, and regulatory requirements of public sector clients.
Stay informed of trends, changes, and updates in the public sector market, including regulatory changes and budget cycles
Deliver engaging and persuasive sales presentations
Lead negotiations on pricing and contracts
Oversee the execution of contracts and ensure all requirements are met for successful project delivery
Maintain accurate records of sales activities, client interactions, and sales pipeline progress
Provide regular reports and forecasts to management on sales performance, opportunities, and challenges

About you:

You'll have experience working within the recruitment industry and a proven track record of success within a business development role focusing on growing revenues within the public sector.

Some of the Benefits, Training and Development we offer:

Basic salary range 38k-50k plus bonus
Car allowance 6k
Field based working from home role with travel across the whole of UK as required for meetings so a full driver's licence will be required
Dedicated structured support for new starters, including performance and development support, goal setting and advice on navigating your way through your new job
Clear career paths
25 days holiday (plus public holidays) increasing by length of service until it reaches 30 days and with the option to buy additional annual leave
Focused wellbeing programme, including access to a network of mental health first aiders and a full subscription to the Calm mindfulness app
Your Birthday off
Fully paid day off for charity work of your choice
Wide range of flexible and lifestyle benefits
Long service and recognition awards
Ongoing training and development

Proud to be an inclusive and equitable employer:

We are committed to being a Disability Confident Employer. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from candidates with a disability and commit to interview these candidates if their application meets the minimum criteria for the role - just tell us when applying.

We are also a forces-friendly employer and extend the same interview guarantee to any current reservists, ex-armed forces personnel or forces spouses/partners applying.

To ensure you have the best experience with us, please let us know if we can make any adjustments to our application or interview process and feel free to note in your application which pronouns you use.

We consider ourselves to be an equitable employer which celebrates diversity and encourages inclusion. Our ongoing commitments to Equality, Equity, Diversity and inclusion means we recognise candidates may want to anonymise their cv during the application process, if you wish to do this, you are welcome to do so.

RSS Global is a portfolio of brands specialising in staffing and workforce solutions in the UK, Ireland and Asia Pacific. Our brands include Blue Arrow, Chadwick Nott, Global Medics, Litmus, Medacs Healthcare, Tate and The Recruitment Co.

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