UAT : SupplyBank : Business Development Manager - Hayley Hoyle

Supporting Education Group is the UK’s leading education services platform, providing the expertise, technology and resources that help schools, trusts and education organisations meet their biggest workforce challenges. Our Recruitment & Supply practice plays a crucial role in this mission by ensuring schools have timely access to high‑quality educators, from urgent supply cover to long‑term and permanent staff. With the UK’s largest pool of vetted teachers and support staff, rigorous safeguarding standards and responsive, tech‑enabled booking systems, we deliver reliable, flexible staffing solutions that keep classrooms running smoothly. By maintaining continuity for pupils and offering a trusted service for both candidates and schools, we help the wider education workforce thrive.

We are looking for an accomplished Business Development Manager to join our SupplyBank team within our Recruitment & Supply practice.

This is a high-impact opportunity to identify and secure strategic partnerships, open new markets and help shape how we support schools, Multi Academy Trusts and education groups across the UK.

Working on a hybrid basis from a local office, you will collaborate closely with operational colleagues in Teaching Personnel & Protocol Education, alongside our wider sales, partnerships, SupplyBank and marketing teams across the Group. You will bring people together around the right opportunities, turning ambitious ideas and commercial conversations into sustainable, successful partnerships.

This is more than a traditional sales role.

You will take ownership of strategic opportunities across the full business development journey, from identifying prospects and building senior-level relationships through to developing solutions, leading pitches, negotiating agreements and supporting successful mobilisation.
You could be developing a partnership with a Multi Academy Trust, opening a new route to market, supporting a procurement or framework opportunity, or helping a school group improve the way it manages its recruitment and supply staffing.
Whatever the opportunity, you will work consultatively to understand each organisation’s priorities and create solutions that deliver meaningful educational, operational and commercial value.

• A strong track record in business development, strategic sales, partnerships or account growth.

• Experience winning significant new business or developing complex commercial relationships.

• Confidence engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.

• The ability to understand client challenges and translate them into compelling solutions.

• Strong presentation, proposal, negotiation and closing skills.

• Experience managing longer, consultative or procurement-led sales cycles.

• A structured and proactive approach to pipeline development.

• Commercial awareness, including an understanding of value, pricing and profitability.

• The ability to build strong relationships with operational teams and mobilise internal support.

• Resilience, curiosity and the confidence to challenge established thinking.

• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work across different teams, brands and specialisms.

• A genuine interest in education and the impact that effective recruitment and staffing partnerships can have.

Knowledge of the education recruitment market, Multi Academy Trust structures or school procurement would be valuable, but it is not essential if you can bring highly transferable experience and a strong appetite to learn.

What success will look like
Success will mean creating and converting a healthy pipeline of strategic opportunities, winning valuable new partnerships and ensuring those partnerships are successfully embedded across our operational teams.

You will not simply secure agreements. You will help turn them into active, long-term relationships that deliver increased market reach, sustainable commercial growth and better staffing outcomes for schools.