Senior Business Development Manager

Description:

The LSE’s mission charges the School with making a positive difference to the world through bringing research-based knowledge to public problems and educating students with the capacity to lead in solving those problems. The School’s participation in the University of London Programmes (UoLP) is a key channel in achieving this goal. Currently circa 10,000 students across nearly 40 countries study for a University of London (UoL) undergraduate degree, academically designed and examined by the LSE at one of 30 Recognised Teaching Centres or through distance learning. This suite of programmes is managed by the LSE Office for UoLP (University of London Programmes), part of the Extended Education Unit. This is a highly successful and commercially driven unit that delivers LSE’s open enrolment short courses and distance learning degree programmes and makes a major contribution to LSE’s funding.

This Senior Business Development Manager plays an exciting role, focussed on developing our relationships with existing partners and securing new opportunities focused on quality and scale. Working within a target driven environment, the role has responsibility for:

• Delivering first-class relationship management to our existing University of London Programmes Teaching Centres, which maximise their potential

• Establishing a framework which ensures the LSE provides a consistent and appropriate level of support to enable Teaching Centres to achieve their goals

• Ensuring the LSE focusses our support and resources on the partnerships which deliver, or have the greatest potential to deliver, the largest impact for the School.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate proven experience of growing and retaining business partnerships to achieve and extend agreed targets. The candidate should have proven experience of building long-term relationships and inspiring trust and confidence with high level stakeholders.

Our partners are spread across the world, and where possible we use technology to communicate with them. However, the nature of the role means the post holder must be prepared to undertake international travel from time to time.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.