Summary:
We’re looking for a Business Development Manager to join our team at Celtic Offsite, helping to identify new business opportunities and help the business grow.
This role involves being responsible for identifying new business opportunities and capitalising on potential new business ventures. You will also build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, partners, and potential clients, while strategically networking to secure and develop valuable partnerships. This role will be instrumental in establishing a robust pipeline of new business while also maintaining existing relationships to ensure sustained success.
United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We look after over 6,700 homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.
Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.
We have a new building programme that is worth around £55m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes.
We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.
The Group includes our repairs and maintenance service Celtic Horizons; timber frame home manufacturer Celtic Offsite and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which builds affordable homes and homes for sale.
With over 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.
Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.
Job Role:
This role involves being responsible for identifying new business opportunities and capitalising on potential new business ventures. You will also build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, partners, and potential clients, while strategically networking to secure and develop valuable partnerships. This role will be instrumental in establishing a robust pipeline of new business while also maintaining existing relationships to ensure sustained success.
The position also requires someone with strong, trust-based communication abilities and a passion for achieving targets and creating long-lasting partnerships. A proficiency in handling financial risks, excellent communication skills, and competence in managing projects to foster business growth will be essential.
Key accountabilities:
- You will develop strong relationships with both internal and external clients, stakeholders and partners. Additionally, you will leverage your own network and industry knowledge. By regularly networking and engaging with these groups, you will identify and capitalise on new business opportunities.
- You will report on progress and customer satisfaction on a regular and timely basis, ensuring transparent communication and the ability to produce detailed and accurate scopes of work that meet clients’ needs.
- You will actively progress business development initiatives, creating opportunities to grow our net-zero carbon factory facility.
- Working closely with the factory Operations Manager and HSEQ Manager, you will identify risks, ensure operational impacts are minimised, and effectively navigate tender and procurement processes to position the company as a strong option for potential new clients.
- You will maintain excellent financial management, risk analysis, and reporting systems, monitoring quality on-site to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet the agreed contract specifications.
Celtic Offsite is a leading manufacturer of high-quality, sustainable timber frame homes, featuring factory-fitted insulation and windows.
Download the Candidate Recruitment Pack here
For full details about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached Applicant Pack. For any information chat about the role, please contact @Daniel Bevan
Additional Information:
Location: Caerphilly
Hours: Full time – 40 hours per week
Salary: Up to £60,000
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Tuesday 18th March 2025
To Apply:
Please click on the link below.
To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and on the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 1,000 words.
In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.
We do reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.
- We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. You can complete this form online. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application
- Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment
- Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.
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